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Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure by Giles Foden – At the height of WWI, as armies of thousands fought with each other on European soil, a much more unusual battle was waged in eastern Africa, where Belgian and German colonial territories were separated by the second largest body of water on the continent, Lake Tanganyika. (From Publishers Weekly) buy now »
The Lake Regions of Central Africa Volume 1 by Sir Richard Burton – The multi-talented English explorer Sir Richard Burton describes his three-year voyage throughout Central Africa from 1856 to 1859. In an attempt to interest both the scholar and the common reader, Burton mingles accounts of his own adventures with more scientific observations.
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Blood River by Tim Butcher – A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and what is perhaps one of the most daring and adventurous journeys a journalist has made in recent years. buy now »
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
War Games by Linda Polman
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness by Albert Russo
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
African Perspectives on China and Africa edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks
China into Africa by Robert I. Rotberg