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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