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  • Zee Monodee The best feel-good romance books showcasing how IRL Africa is not a hotbed of misery Book cover of Just The Way I Am Book cover of Destiny for Love Arranged Book cover of Love Happens, Eventually Book cover of His Inherited Princess Book cover of Keeping Secrets
  • Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki The best books to introduce you to African speculative short fiction Book cover of Omenana to Infinity Book cover of Africanfuturism: An Anthology Book cover of AfroSF Book cover of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Book cover of Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa
  • Wole Talabi The best single-author collections of African speculative fiction stories Book cover of Kabu Kabu Book cover of A Killing in the Sun Book cover of Slipping: Stories, Essays & Other Writing Book cover of Incidents at the Shrine Book cover of Intruders: Short stories
  • Edward Berenson The best books for understanding the impact of European colonialism on Africa and Africans Book cover of In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism Book cover of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Book cover of Heart of Darkness Book cover of Travels in the Congo Book cover of Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960
  • Irina Filatova The best books to understand “what is wrong” with Africa – and what is right Book cover of Africans: The History of a Continent Book cover of States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control Book cover of Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa Book cover of It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower Book cover of The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper
  • Kwame Nyong'o The best children's books about life in Africa Book cover of Take Me Home Book cover of Sulwe Book cover of The Wooden Camel Book cover of Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti Book cover of Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
  • Najma Mohamed The best books about justice and sustainability in South Africa Book cover of Green Skills Research in South Africa: Models, Cases and Methods Book cover of A Just Transition to a Low Carbon Future in South Africa Book cover of Greening the South African Economy: Scoping the Issues, Challenges and Opportunities Book cover of Breakthrough: Corporate South Africa in a Green Economy Book cover of Earth, Wind and Fire: Unpacking the Political, Economic and Security Implications of Discourse on the Green Economy
  • Joan Deneve The best Christian fiction books to highlight the wonders of life and mission work in Africa Book cover of Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most Book cover of The Whisper of the Palms Book cover of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Medical Missionary's African Challenges Book cover of The Hand on My Scalpel: Humorous & Heartbreaking Stories from a Jungle Operating Room Book cover of Angola Bradt Travel Guide 2nd
  • Mohamed Haji Ingiriis The best book on contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism Book cover of The Invention of Somalia Book cover of Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War Book cover of Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism Book cover of The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State Book cover of The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly
  • Michiel Heyns The best African books that don’t have much to say about Africa Book cover of In a Strange Room Book cover of The Third Reel Book cover of False River Book cover of My Beautiful Death Book cover of The Distance
  • Riccardo Orizio The best books about post colonial life in Africa Book cover of A Bend in the River Book cover of Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa Book cover of Another Day of Life Book cover of The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands Book cover of North of South
  • Anjan Sundaram The best foreign correspondent memoirs of Africa Book cover of Another Day of Life Book cover of The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands Book cover of The Writer and the World: Essays Book cover of In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo Book cover of A Report of the Kingdom of Congo: And of the Surrounding Countries; Drawn Out of the Writings and Discourses of the Portuguese, Duarte Lopez
  • Roy Aronson The best books on African animals, mysticism, ancestral communication and the wild heart of Africa Book cover of The Sunbird Book cover of Game - Ranger Book cover of All Creatures Great and Small Book cover of Th Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the African Continent from 1876 to 1912 Book cover of Out of Africa
  • Gail Nyoka The best books of folktales from Africa Book cover of Stories of Africa Book cover of The Orphan Boy Book cover of The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa Book cover of Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes Book cover of A Treasury of African Folklore
  • Lewis DeSoto The best books that taught me about life, about literature, and about South Africa Book cover of Cry, the Beloved Country Book cover of The Conservationist Book cover of The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper Book cover of Life & Times of Michael K Book cover of White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots Witnessed By Eight Generations Of An Afrikaner Family
  • Edlyne Eze Anugwom The best books on development in Africa Book cover of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Book cover of Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Book cover of The Next Africa Book cover of Africa Is Not a Country Book cover of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
  • Evadeen Brickwood The best books on Southern Africa you might not know Book cover of Zoo City Book cover of Maru Book cover of Talk of the Town: Short Stories Book cover of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book cover of The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
  • Peter Allison The best books on African wildlife and safaris Book cover of Africa Bites: Scrapes and escapes in the African Bush Book cover of Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm Book cover of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Book cover of Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa Book cover of A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
  • Penny Haw The most inspiring, eye-opening historical fiction set in Africa Book cover of Cry, the Beloved Country Book cover of The Theory of Flight Book cover of Philida Book cover of Out of Africa Book cover of The Gold Diggers
  • Kathryn Williams The best books for wild women desperately seeking adventure Book cover of Out of Africa Book cover of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Book cover of West with the Night: A Memoir Book cover of The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood Book cover of I Dreamed of Africa
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