The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
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by Martin Meredith
Focusing on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, Martin Meredith's riveting narrative history seeks to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century, and faces still. From the giddy enthusiasm of the 1960s to the "coming of tyrants" and rapid decline, The Fate of Africa is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how it came to this - and what, if anything, is to be done.

Africans : The History of a Continent (African Studies)
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by John Iliffe
This is a history of Africa from the origins of mankind right up to the South African general election of 1994. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature in an overwhelmingly hostile environment, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers.

Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (New Approaches to African History)
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by Frederick Cooper
This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's current position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other.

Africa : A Biography of the Continent (Vintage)
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by John Reader
From the formation of the continent to the present, Reader's informative narrative tells the story of the earliest dwellers and the natural obstacles of desert, jungle, and animals they faced, expertly entwining the development of humanity with the ecological and geographical evolution of the continent.

History of Africa
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by Kevin Shillington
offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of the continent from earliest times to the present. Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa through the millennia of the ancient world to the centuries of medieval and modern Africa.

The Phantom Voyagers: Evidence of Indonesian Settlement in Africa in Ancient Times
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by Robert Nevill Dick-Read
Robert Dick-Read’s intriguing book – the culmination of years of study - flows smoothly through the early history of the Indian Ocean, from the islands and waterways of Indonesia, to Madagascar and the hinterland of Africa, exploring historical and cultural byways that are almost certainly new to many readers.

Africa Proconsularis, Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley : Historical Conclusions, Vol. III
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by Peter Orsted (Editor), Jesper Carlsen (Editor), Laila Ladjimi Sebai (Editor), Habib Ben Hassen (Editor)
Reveals the economic mechanisms and social relations between a town and its environs in history.

100 Great Africans
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by Alan Rake
Profiles leading Africans from all walks of life, from the Egyptian pharaohs to present times, covering the entire continent. Offers biographies of several pages of kings of the early African empires, early adventurers, the jihadists, great South Africans, heroes of the struggles against colonialism, and modern rulers. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
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by John Thornton
This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.

Africa Betrayed
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by George B. N. Ayittey
Ayittey (economics, American U.), born in Ghana, writes passionately about the horrors of black neo-colonialism, arguing that Africa's despots are not supported by Africa's indigenous political systems, and that a second liberation struggle is building up on the continent. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

A Continent for the Taking : The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
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by Howard W. French
a beautifully written work that provides a fascinating insight into Africa's underdevelopment and civil strife. Devoid of sentimentality and full of objectivity, the author conveys the deep message, which explains the hope that the continent has retained despite its turbulent history.

Africa Unchained : The Blueprint for Africa's Future
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by George B.N. Ayittey
investigates how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions, and argues forcefully that Africa should build and expand upon traditions of free markets and free trade rather than continuing to use exploitative economic structures.

The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives
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by Robert Guest
The author shares his experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring the reasons for the region's abject poverty and suffering. He takes into account factors like for example climate and history, whilst quoting African writers like Chinua Achebe, Themba Sono and Chenjerai Hove.

I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
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by Michela Wrong
The author shares his experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring the reasons for the region's abject poverty and suffering. He takes into account factors like for example climate and history, whilst quoting African writers like Chinua Achebe, Themba Sono and Chenjerai Hove.

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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by Caroline Elkins
This outstanding book exposes those lies, showing how colonial government forces in Kenya killed between 200,000 and 300,000 people in the 1950s. Elkins details the government `campaign of terror, dehumanizing torture, and genocide' marked by detention without trial, forced labour, collective punishments, deprivation of medical care, systematic starvation and murders.

An Introduction to African Politics
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by Alex Thomson
an ideal gateway for individuals seeking to learn more about the African continent. Using accessible terms and concepts, the book seeks to make sense of the dynamic and diverse political systems that are a feature of this fascinating part of the world.

African Politics and Society : A Mosaic in Transformation
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by Peter J. Schraeder
A textbook for a graduate or undergraduate course in African studies. Independent chapters examine aspects of the continent in general, rather than focusing on particular countries or regions.

Long Walk to Freedom : The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
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by Nelson Mandela
A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works.

Mugabe: Power and plunder in Zimbabwe
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by Martin Meredith
for the first time, the whole story of what has happened in Zimbabwe is told in detail by an expert. It is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and essential reading for anyone wanting to understand today's Africa.

Idi Amin (Heroes and Villains)
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by James Barter
for the first time, the whole story of what has happened in Zimbabwe is told in detail by an expert. It is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and essential reading for anyone wanting to understand today's Africa.

Warlord Politics and African States
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by William Reno
Focusing on the examples of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire, this text demonstrates how African rulers hold on to power while severed from foreign aid and subjected to collapsing economies and disappearing bureaucracies.

Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution
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by Taisier M. Ali (Editor), Ronald O. Matthews
provides a comparative perspective on the causes of civil war and the processes by which internal conflict may be resolved or averted. The book focuses on the wars in Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda as well as the experiences of Tanzania and Zimbabwe,