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The African Affairs Committee Recommends these Books on the African Continent

The African Affairs Committee Recommends these Books on the African Continent

  • Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela
  • Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
  • Shake Hands with the Devil — Romeo Dallaire
  • A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide — Samantha Power
  • An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century — James Orbinski
  • A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa — Howard W. French
  • China’s Second Continent — Howard W. French
  • Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa — Jason Stearns
  • Me against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda — Scott Peterson
  • The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth — Tom Burgis
  • A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It — Stephen Kinzer
  • Strength in What Remains — Tracy Kidder
  • Emma’s War: A True Story — Deborah Scroggins
  • The Graves Are Not Yet Full Paperback–Bill Berkeley
  • Africa: A Biography of the Continent — John Reader
  • The Tree Where Man Was Born — Peter Matthiessen
  • West with the Night — Beryl Markham
  • King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed,Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa–Adam Hochschild
  • African Laughter — Doris Lessing
  • Justice- A Personal Account–Edwin Cameron.
  • Mask of Anarchy — Stephen Ellis
  • Shadow of the Sun — Ryszard Kapuscinsk
  • Man of Good Hope — Jonny Steinberg
  • Dances with Devils: A Journalist’s Search for Truth — Jaques Pauw
  • Little Liberia — Jonny Steinberg
  • Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (Voice of Witness Reader)
  • Dinner with Mugabe — Heidi Holland
  • We Need New Names — Noviolet Bulawayo
  • Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Black Butterflies — Ingrid Jonker (poetry)
  • Consciencism — Kwame Nkrumah
  • Thin Blue Line — Jonny Steinberg
  • The Afrikaners — Hermann Giliomee
  • Cutting for Stone — Abraham Verghese
  • Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • A Long Way Gone — Ishmael Beah
  • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight — Alexandra Fuller
  • Scribbling the Cat — Alexandra Fuller
  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families — Philip Gourevitch