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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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King Leopold's Ghost

By Adam Hochschild ,

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How Beautiful We Were
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How Beautiful We Were

By Imbolo Mbue ,

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French ,

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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
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Strongmen

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat ,

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Afterlives
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Afterlives

By Abdulrazak Gurnah ,

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The Memory of an Elephant
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The Memory of an Elephant

By Alex Lasker ,

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An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
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An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

By Helene Tursten , Marlaine Delargy (translator) ,

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Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories
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Drinking from Graveyard Wells

By Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ,

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The Nile: History's Greatest River
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The Nile

By Terje Tvedt ,

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Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa
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Blood and Diamonds

By Steven Press ,

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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
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In the Forest of No Joy

By J.P. Daughton ,

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The Distance Between Stars
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The Distance Between Stars

By Jeff Elzinga ,

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Girl Who Loved Giraffes: And Became the World's First Giraffologist
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Girl Who Loved Giraffes

By Kathy Stinson , Francois Thisdale (illustrator) ,

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The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
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The Blood of the Colony

By Owen White ,

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China and Africa: The New Era
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China and Africa

By Daniel Large ,

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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

By Nikole Hannah-Jones , Renée Watson , Nikkolas Smith (illustrator)

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The First Woman
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The First Woman

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi ,

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In the Company of Men
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In the Company of Men

By Véronique Tadjo ,

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Co-Wives, Co-Widows
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Co-Wives, Co-Widows

By Adrienne Yabouza , Rachael McGill (translator) ,

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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction

By Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (editor) ,

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Journeys Without a Map: A Writer's Life
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Journeys Without a Map

By Marion Molteno ,

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Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
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Disruption

By Rachel Zadok (editor) , Karina M. Szczurek (editor) , Jason Mykl Snyman (editor)

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The Origins of AIDS
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The Origins of AIDS

By Jacques Pépin ,

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Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina
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Black Legend

By Paulina L. Alberto ,

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Son of the Storm
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Son of the Storm

By Suyi Davies Okungbowa ,

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Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora
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Dominion

By Zelda Knight , Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki , Nicole Givens Kurtz , Dilman Dila , Eugen Bacon , Marian Denise Moore , Rafeeat Aliyu , Suyi Davies Okungbowa , Odida Nyabundi , Michael Boatman

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A Just Transition to a Low Carbon Future in South Africa
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A Just Transition to a Low Carbon Future in South Africa

By Nqobile Xaba (editor) , Saliem Fakir (editor) ,

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Moon Witch, Spider King
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Moon Witch, Spider King

By Marlon James ,

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Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London
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Settlers

By Jimi Famurewa ,

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Who's Hiding on the Savanna?
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Who's Hiding on the Savanna?

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To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa
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To End a Plague

By Emily Bass ,

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The Lies of the Ajungo
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The Lies of the Ajungo

By Moses Ose Utomi ,

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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

By Cecile Fromont ,

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Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don't Always Fall Apart
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Explaining Successes in Africa

By Erin Accampo Hern ,

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Like You, Like Me
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Like You, Like Me

By Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw ,

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The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
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The Golden Thread

By Ravi Somaiya ,

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Dark Horizon
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Dark Horizon

By James Swallow ,

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Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
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Insignificant Things

By Matthew Francis Rarey ,

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The History of Man
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The History of Man

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu ,

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Just The Way I Am
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Just The Way I Am

By Jo Watson ,

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Love Happens, Eventually
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Love Happens, Eventually

By Feyi Aina ,

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The Quality of Mercy
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The Quality of Mercy

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu ,

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The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers
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The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers

By Finuala Dowling ,

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Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
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Hitler's South African Spies

By Evert Kleynhans ,

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All You'll See Is Sky: Resetting a Marriage on an Adventure Through Africa
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All You'll See Is Sky

By Janet A. Wilson ,

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What Was the Plague?
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What Was the Plague?

By Roberta Edwards , Dede Putra (illustrator) ,

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Oil Palm
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Oil Palm

By Jonathan E. Robins ,

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The Theory of Flight
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The Theory of Flight

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu ,

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Africa Is Not a Country
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Africa Is Not a Country

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Mothersound
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Mothersound

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