African Biographies
Alfred and Emily
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of... Buy or find out more →
Dinner With Mugabe
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Viking
This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe takes us into the mind of the man whose career began as the great hope for his nation - the man who would save it from the repressive regime of Ian Smith - and has resul... Buy or find out more →
Dont Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
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Unbowed One Womans Story
$27.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiogra... Buy or find out more →
When A Crocodile Eats The Sun
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Hailed by reviewers as "powerful," "haunting" and "a tour de force of personal journalism,"When A Crocodile Eats the Sunis the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his pre... Buy or find out more →
Gogo Mama A Journey Into The Lives Of Twelve African Women
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Gogo Mama intimately profiles the lives of twelve very different African women. They include a genocide survivor from Rwanda; a pygmy who lives in a grass hut at the base of a volcano in the Congo; Zanzibar's most famous... Buy or find out more →
Orphaned One Womans Mission To Save Africas Aids Children
$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The National Book award finalist puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa with this account of an Ethiopian widow who welcomed over sixty AIDS orphaned children into her home, caring for them and helping to place t... Buy or find out more →
I Dreamed Of Africa
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the lake, and the eveni... Buy or find out more →
Boyhood: A Memoir
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, J. M Coetzee writes about his childhood and interior life. BOYHOOD'S young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and... Buy or find out more →
Out Of Africa
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin
In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn to the exquisite beauty of Africa, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. A poignant farewell to her beloved far... Buy or find out more →
Long Way Gone The True Story Of A Child Soldier
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now,... Buy or find out more →
Home And Exile
$0.00 – Paperback book / Anchor
Africa's most prominent writer and author of "Things Fall Apart" offers his first fully autobiographical work, which serves not only as a moving account of his exceptional life but also as an extended exploration of the ... Buy or find out more →
Slave
$24.99 – Paperback book / Virago
Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted ... Buy or find out more →
Holding Up The Sky: An African Life
$34.95 – Paperback book / Pier 9
This astonishing autobiographical work is the story of Australian woman Sandy Blackburn-Wright’s complex love affair with Africa and its people. Sandy lived in and worked in South Africa for 15 years. witnessing some of ... Buy or find out more →
Ake
$23.95 – Paperback book /
Wole Soyinka, an internationally acclaimed playwright, essayist, and memoirist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. This is his memoir of his childhood in Nigeria Buy or find out more →
God Has A Dream
$27.95 – Paperback book / Rider
GOD HAS A DREAM is an extremely personal and liberating message of hope and light in dark times. In it, the Archbishop shows how important it is that even as we face the harsh realities of our individual lives and global... Buy or find out more →
House Of Stone: The True Story Of A Family Divided In War Torn Zimbabwe
$25.00 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ostrich farm. A few months later, however, he arrived home to see hi... Buy or find out more →