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Africa

After the Party

by Andrew Feinstein
South Africa’s Watergate – widespread corruption at the highest levels of the ANC.
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Saviours and Survivors

by Mahmood Mamdani
Darfur and the ideological use of the language of genocide.
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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts

by Jules Marchal
The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild.
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Conspiracy to Murder

by Linda Melvern
Voted the Best Book on Africa by Foreign Affairs and Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice.
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The Battlefield

by Hugh Roberts
Combating the tendency to reduce Algeria's tragedy to a clash of stereotypes, Roberts offers a radical corrective to Western misconceptions.
Afrocentrism

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
Ibn Khaldun

by Yves Lacoste
A sympathetic yet incisive study of the great North African polymath.
Imagining Home

Edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Sidney J. Lemelle
A fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements.

African and Caribbean Politics

by Manning Marable
Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora.