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... 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... More »
Dont Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia, and to the beginnings of a civil war.
By the time she is eight, the war ... More »
Desert Flower
$19.95 (Paperback book / Virago )
Waris Dirie (whose name means desert flower) was born in Somalia of nomadic parents, one of 12 children. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of 5. At 13 her father sold her into marriage with a 60 year o... More »
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... More »
When A Crocodile Eats The Sun
$24.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post... 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... More »
Orphaned One Womans Mission To Save Africas Aids Children
$24.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
In a tin-walled compound outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a middle-class woman named Haregewoin Teferra suffers terrible personal losses. In grief, she turns to the church, and is presented with two orphans and asked to ho... 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... More »
Hospital By The River
$25.00 (Paperback book / Macmillan )
Australian gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin arrived in Addis Ababa in 1959 to establish a midwifery school. Over 30 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the world's most outstanding medical progra... More »
Boyhood A Memoir
$23.95 (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...
Out Of Africa
$19.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin )
In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 19... 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,... More »
Home And Exile
$19.95 (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 ... More »
Holding Up The Sky: An African Life
$34.95$29.95 (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 ... More »
God Has A Dream
$24.95 (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... 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... More »