Africa - Nonfiction

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 4.42 avg rating — 7,736 ratings
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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart 3.98 avg rating — 11,890 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,212 ratings
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America 4.47 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World 4.20 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality 4.49 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,908 ratings
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. 4.46 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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Precolonial Black Africa
Precolonial Black Africa 4.28 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
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No Easy Walk to Freedom (African Writers Series)
No Easy Walk to Freedom (African Writers Series) 4.17 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Wait for God to Notice
Wait for God to Notice 4.27 avg rating — 236 ratings
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West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,231 ratings
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African Perspectives on Colonialism
African Perspectives on Colonialism 3.88 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature 4.36 avg rating — 2,716 ratings
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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior 4.65 avg rating — 267 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,415 ratings
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Africa in History
Africa in History 3.79 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87 4.51 avg rating — 507 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,953 ratings
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life 4.39 avg rating — 16,543 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad 4.24 avg rating — 39,494 ratings
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence 4.20 avg rating — 7,349 ratings
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The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe 3.89 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Machete Season
Machete Season 4.06 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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Dark Days in Ghana
Dark Days in Ghana 4.25 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Immersed in West Africa: My Solo Journey Across Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau (Travels With Terry Book 1)
Immersed in West Africa: My Solo Journey Across Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau (Travels With Terry Book 1) 4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Out of Africa - and - Shadows on the Grass
Out of Africa - and - Shadows on the Grass 4.21 avg rating — 11,732 ratings
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A New Day Dawns (Travels With Terry, #2)
A New Day Dawns (Travels With Terry, #2) 4.66 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Africa Has a Future
Africa Has a Future 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Modern Africa: A Social and Political History
Modern Africa: A Social and Political History 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story 4.28 avg rating — 10,238 ratings
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Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness 3.80 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,873 ratings
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Up From Slavery: The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade
Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Modern Economic History of Africa. Vol. 1: The Ninteenth Century (Codesria Book Series)
A Modern Economic History of Africa. Vol. 1: The Ninteenth Century (Codesria Book Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Struggle For Mozambique
The Struggle For Mozambique 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment
Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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African Presence Early Eur(ser7#2)
African Presence Early Eur(ser7#2) 4.41 avg rating — 58 ratings
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In Ethiopia with a Mule
In Ethiopia with a Mule 3.95 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Golden Age of the Moor
The Golden Age of the Moor 4.52 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Sabi
The Sabi 3.67 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Introduction to African Civilizations
Introduction to African Civilizations 4.34 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour 4.42 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere
Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere 4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa 3.92 avg rating — 933 ratings
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The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change 4.09 avg rating — 758 ratings
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa 3.88 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Mimi And Toutou Go Forth
Mimi And Toutou Go Forth 3.75 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating — 14,151 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Impossible Journey: Two Against The Sahara
Impossible Journey: Two Against The Sahara 4.16 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia 3.57 avg rating — 139 ratings
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South From the Limpopo
South From the Limpopo 3.76 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya 4.05 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation 4.18 avg rating — 5,451 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,654 ratings
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War Child: A Child Soldier's Story
War Child: A Child Soldier's Story 4.09 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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Race to Dakar
Race to Dakar 3.89 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs
Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Conversing With Africa: Politics Of Change
Conversing With Africa: Politics Of Change liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan 4.21 avg rating — 10,210 ratings
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Global Studies: Africa
Global Studies: Africa 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook: The Global Migration of African Cuisine
The Peppers, Cracklings, and Knots of Wool Cookbook: The Global Migration of African Cuisine 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Cameroon with Egbert
Cameroon with Egbert 3.92 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War 3.78 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Muddling through in Madagascar
Muddling through in Madagascar 3.82 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
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African Dance: An Artistic, Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
African Dance: An Artistic, Historical and Philosophical Inquiry 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,176 ratings
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President 3.99 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War
The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation 4.13 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa 4.33 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa 4.17 avg rating — 3,657 ratings
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo 4.02 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide 4.46 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad 4.42 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance 3.79 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Ajak's Song
Ajak's Song 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo 4.01 avg rating — 2,027 ratings
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Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African
Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African 4.16 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897)
Memoirs of a Prisoner of War in Shewa (March 1896 - January 1897) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cape Town to Kruger: Backpacker Travels in South Africa and Swaziland
Cape Town to Kruger: Backpacker Travels in South Africa and Swaziland 3.79 avg rating — 71 ratings
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African Identities: a New Perspective
African Identities: a New Perspective it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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In the Belly of the Elephant: A Memoir of Africa
In the Belly of the Elephant: A Memoir of Africa 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The Great Pearl of Wisdom 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Novel in Africa
The Novel in Africa 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions 3.90 avg rating — 2,471 ratings
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Escaping the Lion and the Leopard
Escaping the Lion and the Leopard 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Mandela and the General
Mandela and the General 4.16 avg rating — 354 ratings
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South Africa's High Treason Club: The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators on Trial
South Africa's High Treason Club: The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators on Trial it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Travel Light, Move Fast
Travel Light, Move Fast 4.05 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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Life and Death in Nyamata
Life and Death in Nyamata 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Diamonds, Gold, and War (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition): The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Diamonds, Gold, and War (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition): The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
Congo: The Epic History of a People 4.39 avg rating — 8,070 ratings
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