 | The Jive Talker: Or, How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu
Buy new: £11.38 / Used from: £4.13 Unique among African memoirs. Funny and poignant bildungsroman.
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 | Malawi (Bradt Travel Guide) (Bradt Travel Guide Malawi) by Philip Briggs
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £7.77 Guide to Malawi.
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 | Spectrum Guide to Malawi by Camerapix
Buy used from: £19.00 Pics bring back memories.
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 | Malawi (Lonely Planet Regional Guides) by David Else
Buy used from: £8.69 Again, I like the pictures - my name is in this one!
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 | Lonely Planet : Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia by David Else
Buy used from: £4.67 This is the one I travelled around Malawi with. Some time ago!
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 | Malawi: The Warm Heart of Africa by Frank Johnston
Wonderful images, especially of the Lake of Stars.
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 | In Search of Truth and Justice: Confrontations Between Church and State in Malawi 1960-1994 by Matthew Schoffeleers
Buy new: £25.95 / Used from: £38.79 I edited this! Very exciting to see it on Amazon. Very informative.
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 | Wisdom of the People: 2000 Chinyanja Proverbs (Kachere Monograph,) by J.C. Chakanza
Buy new: £21.95 / Used from: £29.91 Intriguing proverbs, very good illustrations.
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 | Nchimi Chikanga. The Battle Against Witchcraft in Malawi (Kachere Text,) by Boston Soko
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £25.14 Very interesting biography of a traditional healer.
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 | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.17 Very wry take on Malawi. Good descriptions, although some not like my experience.
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 | Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £4.02 Very interesting take on the war in Rhodesia.
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 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 No apologies for this memoir of a white family in East Africa.
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 | The basket girl (Malawian writers series) by Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo
Great description of Zomba.
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 | Of Chameleons and Gods (African Writers Series) by Jack Mapanje
Buy new: £6.65 / Used from: £1.49 The first of Mapanje's poems that I read. Before I visited Mikuyu Prison.
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 | Skipping without Ropes by Jack Mapanje
Buy used from: £0.01 The volume I bought in Malawi.
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 | The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison (African Poets) by Jack Mapanje
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.26 Some more of Mapanje's poems.
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 | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.44 / Used from: £0.37 Read this a long time ago - descriptive.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Very interesting view on missionary life ...
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 | Things Fall Apart (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £2.81 It just has to be on a list of African books!
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 | Scarlet Song (Longman African Writers) by Mariana Ba
Buy new: £9.05 / Used from: £6.28 Beautiful story dealing with cross cultural relationships.
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 | Sugarcane with Salt (Longman African writers) by James Lapani Ng'ombe
Buy used from: £0.01 Read this a long time ago ... but have reread it and will reread again.
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 | Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alan Paton
Buy used from: £1.22 Set in South Africa. Another classic.
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