The Ghosts of Eden
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by Andrew JH Sharp
'Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award' - Zachye Katura, tending cattle in the grasslands of Kaaro Karungi, and Michael Lacey, the child of missionaries, are happy in their childhood idyll. But change is coming and they grow up severed from their families and ancestral heritage. When they both fall in love with the same woman, they must each face their past, if they are to be the one to win her. .

Dark Star Safari : Overland from Cairo to Capetown
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by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.

Nowhere in Africa : An Autobiographical Novel
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by Stefanie Zweig
the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family that flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter, Regina, each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways.

Scramble for Africa..
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by Thomas Pakenhaml
sprawling story of the slicing up of a continent by European powers is fascinating, well-written, well worth your time. It's interesting that surprisingly little of the colonization of Africa between 1876 and 1912 came by direct military conquest. No, England, France and Germany (principally) sank their teeth into the continent mostly in less direct ways that were just as dismaying. ... (A Reader)

Heart of Darkness
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by Joseph Conrad
In this searing tale, Seaman Marlow recounts his journey to the dark heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the elusive Mr. Kurtz. Far from civilization as he knows it, he comes to reassess not only his own values, but also those of nature and society.

No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
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by Redmond O'Hanlon
The author describes his dangerous odyssey into the Congo in search of a dinosaur-like creature, documenting his encounters with Africa's flora and fauna, its fascinating people, and the political and social problems afflicting the region.

Do They Hear You When You Cry?
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by Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Gini Kopecky
The story of Fauziya Kassindja, who fled her African homeland to escape female genital mutilation and forced polygamy. Fauziya's progressive father had shielded her from the tribal practice of polygamy and female genital mutilation in Togo, Africa, but when he died in 1993, everything changed.

Aman : The Story of a Somali Girl
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by Virginia Lee Barnes, Janice Boddy
This is the intimate first-person account of a young woman's coming-of-age in Somalia. The daughter of tribal leaders, Aman recounts her dramatic life while at the same time illuminating an innocent childhood romance with a white boy that leads to murder; her circumcision ceremony; an unwanted...

Duma: The Movie Novel
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by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Xan has always loved animals. At home on his parents' farm in South Africa, he has lots of pets, including a parrot, several lizards, and a snake. When he and his dad find a cheetah cub lost by the side of the road, they don't hesitate to add him to the family. They name the cub Duma, the Swahili word for cheetah, and Duma and Xan are soon inseparable.

Horn of Africa : A Novel
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by Philip Caputo
Caputo here presents protagonist Charlie Gage, a journalist who is recruited for a mysterious job that essentially turns out to be serving as a mercenary in a mythical country in northeast Africa.

A Good Man in Africa : A Novel
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by William Boyd
Morgan Leafy had high hopes when he first headed out to the small African nation of Kinjanja to serve as Her British Majesty's representative. But once there, Leafy's dreams of professional advancement and personal happiness soon fade: .....

On the Edge of the Great Rift: Three Novels of Africa
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by Paul Theroux
This is actually a compilation of three previously-published novels, set in sub-Saharan Africa.Each of the novels in this volume has certain merits, and all three are worth your time. As a whole, they serve to encapsulate the experience of being a foreigner in Africa, in the 1970s. (a reader)

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
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by Antjie Krog, Luke Mitchell (Editor)
This wrenching book tells the vital story of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the body charged with exploring human rights violations in the apartheid past and with recommending amnesty and reparations. Krog, a poet who covered the TRC's two years of hearings as a radio reporter, presents a national (and personal) process of catharsis, cobbling together transcripts of testimony, reportage and personal meditations.

No Turning Back : A Novel of South Africa
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by Beverley Naidoo
In a starred review, PW called this powerful novel "a rare and moving glimpse" into the life of a homeless boy in the suburbs of Johannesburg. Ages 8-12. (Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc).

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood
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by Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller has written a wonderful book about her childhood in Africa. It's fascinating, sometimes funny, but also sad. It's a valuable book for people who want to know more about the history of Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. It paints a picture of the life of the white farmers as well as that of the black population. (A Reader )

I Dreamed of Africa
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by Kuki Gallmann
In an eloquent story of romance, sorrow, and Africa, Gallman reveals how her indomitable courage and unending love for Africa helped her overcome the numerous tragedies she suffered on the dark continent.

Gorillas in the Mist
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Dian Fossey
is the story of Dian Fossey, an occupational therapist from Kentucky who, in 1963 travelled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong.

The Zanzibar Chest
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by Aiden Hartley,
It's very well written, and it's an excellent way to learn more about the intense and painful story of modern Africa; through the life of an eyewitness and survivor to all that crazyness. An adventurous man, a reporter, that wanted to see it all and tell the world about what he saw and lived there, in his homeland. A man that is still trying to make some sense out of all that insanity. It's moving. A page turner no doubt! (A Reader)

Our Grandmothers' Drums
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by Mark Hudson
In 1985 Hudson visited the village of Dulaba in the Gambia to help in some field studies there. He was so intrigued by what he saw that he decided to return. The book tells of the lives of the women, devout Muslims, who are circumcised in an all-female ritual, but who sing ribald songs.

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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by Gil Courtemanche
This story takes place in Kigali .. this is not a history book, and so it doesn't detail the events you saw on the news in a logical fashion. This book is all about human emotions: love, friendship, anger, hatred, apathy. This makes it an incredibly powerful book to read: it is one of the few books that has actually made me cry. ( A reader )