 | The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 The experiences of a Reuter's correspondent expressed with clarity and candour uncluttered by political agenda.
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 | Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption (Picador Books) by Andrew Buckoke
Buy used from: £0.04 The experiences of another respected correspondent ably illustrating the simultaneous love and frustration many of us feel when working in Africa.
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 | Banana Sunday : Datelines From Africa by Chris Munnion
Buy new: £16.95 / Used from: £15.98 A candid, necessarily sometimes bleak, more often humorous account from another 'Old Hand'. Chris Munnion is a very experienced and highly respected correspondent.
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 | Africa: Despatches from a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 You should read this to undertsand how things sometimes go swimmingly and other times, disastrously wrong. Controversial, but Blaine Harden's perspective is valid.
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 | The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £2.61 Historical, not contemporary but a must read. Merits re-reading a couple of times.
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 | Angola: Promises and Lies by Karl Maier
Buy used from: £9.50 An account of an ignored rather than forgotten war. Illustrates the difficulties faced by the UN when intervening in regional conflicts (naivety and arrogance as well!). Well written, easy to read.
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 | Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £6.43 / Used from: £3.50 Written in 1938 but as valid today as it was then. It isn't racist, it is a satirical view of ignorance and prejudice presented with humour. It pokes fun at the establishment.
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 | The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith
Buy new: £6.75 / Used from: £3.27 Straight from the hip. Read this but bear in mind the extent of foreign post colonial intervention and the support this gave to corrupt regimes and practices.
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 | The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts
The plan was fine. Loose security and a failure to take into account strategic interests (West african Oil) doomed the operation. They were shopped, basically.
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 | French Lessons in Africa: Travels with My Briefcase Through French Africa by Peter Biddlecombe
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 Recollections of business travel in Francophone Africa.
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 | An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Tim Spicer
Buy used from: £3.81 Quote from 'A Reader': 'A must read which has none of the dryness or self-congratulation which is so often present in auto-biographies'.
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 | The Reluctant Mercenary by Tim A. Smith
Buy new: £15.26 / Used from: £9.41 This is how easy it is to be sucked into something far bigger and more dangerous than one had expected.
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 | The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.21 Kapuscinski, a Polish corespondent, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the Continent.
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 | Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
Buy new: £9.57 / Used from: £5.66 Africa from the very beginning to the present. An excellent reference work.
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