 | Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £2.60 "a compelling account of the authors life growing up in Rhodesia in the 19060's and into the war-torn 1970's. Impossible to put down
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 | When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Buy used from: £3.79 "a very personal look at the collapse of Zimbabwe under the Mugabe regime"
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 | The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley
Buy used from: £0.35 "mix family mystery with the life of a war zone junkie and you get a really interesting book"
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 | The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey by Rupert Isaacson
Buy used from: £8.24 "a real journey for the author as he not only encounters the bushmen but also his own family in Africa"
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 | The Dust Diaries by Owen Sheers
Buy new: £5.50 / Used from: £2.64 "the author is primarily known for his poetry and it shows in this really beautiful book, that weaves between the centuries and continents in the search for a distance relative in a distant land"
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 | Facing the Congo by Jeffrey Tayler
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 "a modern traveller attempts to recreate Stanleys journey down the Congo River"
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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: £3.38 "Michela Wrong is a great writer and this book presents a very insightful account of the Mobutu years in the Congo/Zaire
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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 "an amazing book just compelling reading. A view of family life in war torn Rhodesia/Zimbabwe through rhe eyes of a child"
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 | Fireforce: One Man's War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry by Chris Cocks
Buy used from: £20.16 "a brutally honest account of a troopies life in the Rhodesian Bush War."
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 | Soldiers of Light by Daniel Bergner
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £3.23 "an insighful account of the turmoil in Sierra Leone in the 1990's"
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 | House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £3.15 "a great book on Zimbabwe which shows both the divide and connection that exists between Black and White Zimbabweans"
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 | The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream by Christina Lamb
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 "the tale of an eccntric Englishmen in Africa"
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 | Another Day of Life (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.26 "an amzing portrayal of Angola"
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 | The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.74 "a masterpiece. Kapuscinski describes and presents Africa like no one else"
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 | Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.73 "a harrowing and moving account of the Rwandan genocide"
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 | Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.28 "a interesting account of life in Somalia as experienced by a british army officer in World War II
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 | Travels in the White Man's Grave by Donald MacIntosh
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 "a fascinating account of colonial life and the tropical rainforests of west Africa. The author was ahead of his times in his views on the environment
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 | North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Shiva Naipaul
Buy new: £7.01 / Used from: £2.95 "a brilliant book that presents a personal and different slant on post colonial Africa
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