 | The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £5.08 encylopida like of post colonial africa
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 | The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £0.01 a book that destroys any doubt that africa is but a footnote in world politics
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 | In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa by Daniel Bergner
Buy new: £8.30 / Used from: £3.29 very gruesome and depressing
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 | The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.77 a taster of many different african countries, a very enjoyable read
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 | The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (Penguin Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £3.44 window on a almost mystical age
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 | Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg
Buy new: £15.53 / Used from: £3.61 a very intimate investigation into village life and AIDS
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 | Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 a travel book that fails to his experiance into any context
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 | I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
Buy new: £6.93 / Used from: £3.80 wrong is a brillient writer and this is a fascinating topic
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 | In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo by Michela Wrong
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £1.53 wrong maybe brillient but the topic is too small
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 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It (Grove Art) by Paul Collier
Buy used from: £9.00 a brillient explanation of why africa is poor if inpersonal
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 | Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (African Issues) by Alexander Waal
Buy used from: £5.23 very acedemic showing the incompidance of the NGOs
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 | The Slave Trade: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas
Buy new: £12.77 / Used from: £8.99 just too much detail otherwise good
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 | The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerard Prunier
Buy new: £11.16 / Used from: £9.48 a very good explanation without being gruesome
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 | Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden
Buy new: £16.00 / Used from: £7.49 a love letter to africa
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 | Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (Crises in World Politics) by Gerard Prunier
Buy used from: £4.99 a complex book about a very complex conflict
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 | AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis, Yet (African Arguments) by Alexander De Waal
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £5.74 a concise acedemic book about the politics on AIDS
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 | Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier
Buy used from: £17.23 a difficult very detailed read
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 | It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £6.09 very simple, not as good as her preivous works
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 | Africa Works : Disorder as Political Instrument by Patrick Chabal
Buy used from: £20.95 a very good and complex analysis of african politics/society
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 | Another Day of Life (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.42 another apocalyptic vision of conflict but with very little historical context
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 | A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £0.01 the story of Mandela and apartied
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