Non-Fiction Books about Africa
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
by:
Martin Meredith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,279 ratings 102. 
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
by:
Larry Devlin
3.67 avg rating — 428 ratings 
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My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa 3.83 avg rating — 418 ratings
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When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race
by:
Judith Stone
3.70 avg rating — 491 ratings 106. 
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
by:
Antjie Krog
4.09 avg rating — 3,243 ratings 108. 
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Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Death in Africa
by:
Mark Seal
3.86 avg rating — 1,377 ratings 115. 
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 Black Rhinos of Namibia: Searching for Survivors in the African Desert
by:
Rick Bass
3.23 avg rating — 99 ratings 
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Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
by:
Roger S. Levine
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 124. 
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood, Revised and Updated
by:
Tarek Osman
3.79 avg rating — 312 ratings 
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African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions
by:
Cecelia Conway
4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings 130. 
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
by:
Gérard Prunier
4.09 avg rating — 783 ratings 131. 
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
by:
Jason K. Stearns
4.18 avg rating — 5,456 ratings 133. 
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
by:
Michela Wrong
4.13 avg rating — 1,374 ratings 134. 
The Last Crusade: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations
by:
Nigel Cliff
4.13 avg rating — 1,300 ratings 
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
by:
Howard W. French
3.92 avg rating — 933 ratings 137. 
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
by:
Nina Burleigh
3.82 avg rating — 683 ratings 138. 
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
by:
Judith A. Carney
3.91 avg rating — 120 ratings 
142. 
Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
by:
Erskine Clarke
4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings 
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.29 avg rating — 22,176 ratings 
151. 
Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference
by:
Desmond Tutu
4.21 avg rating — 693 ratings 152. 
Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
by:
Paul R. Linde
3.74 avg rating — 105 ratings 
158. 
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by:
Caroline Elkins
4.05 avg rating — 1,492 ratings 
160. 
After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
161. 
Djoliba Crossing: Journeys Into West African Music and Culture
by:
Dave Kobrenski
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 162. 
Children of Africa: A Photographic Journey
by:
Heather Cairns
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 163. 
Voodoo, Slaves and White Man's Graves: West Africa and the End of Days
by:
Tom Coote
3.60 avg rating — 53 ratings 164. 
Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent
by:
Adekeye Adebajo
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 165. 
Rain Forest Wisdom: What Gorillas Tell Us About Ourselves
by:
Andrew Grant
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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