Africa | 27 books
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David Olusoga
Black and British
4.6
20 min
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
4.5
25 min
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists
4.4
11 min
Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
4.4
23 min
Siddharth Kara
Cobalt Red
4.4
14 min
Richard Preston
Crisis in the Red Zone
4.4
18 min
Carl Safina
Beyond Words
4.4
18 min
Nicholas D. Kristof
Half the Sky
4.3
12 min
Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost
4.2
15 min
Leymah Gbowee
Mighty Be Our Powers
4.2
13 min
Paul Collier
The Bottom Billion
3.9
16 min
Johny Pitts
Afropean
4.3
24 min
Candice Millard
River of the Gods
3.8
17 min
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
3.7
17 min
Michael Scott Moore
The Desert and the Sea
4
16 min
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
3.4
13 min
Howard French
China's Second Continent
3.8
13 min
Linda Polman
Crisis Caravan
3.9
11 min
Mungi Ngomane
Everyday Ubuntu
4
17 min
DK Nnuro
What Napoleon Could Not Do
3.4
16 min
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
To Stop a Warlord
4.4
12 min
Alex Perry
The Rift
4.1
10 min
Ian Shaw
Ancient Egypt
3.5
26 min
Linda Melvern
A People Betrayed
4.1
20 min
Toyin Falola
A History of Nigeria
3.8
19 min
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
3.9
23 min
Nigel Worden
The Making of Modern South Africa
3.4
25 min