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“He tries to show that Africa is a varied continent of 54 countries, all with different histories, different languages, different peoples, different ethnicities. Because it is still the case that, if there is a coup in West Africa, it will stop investors investing in East Africa or Southern Africa, because they see it as all one.” Read more...
Books About African History by African Writers
Zeinab Badawi, Broadcaster
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Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
by Linda Heywood -
Social History of Timbuktu: The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables 1400-1900
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Madame Livingstone: The Great War in the Congo
by Barly Baruti (illustrator) & Christophe Cassiau-Haurie -
Dead Aid
by Dambisa Moyo -
Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande Peoples
by David C. Conrad -
Kariba
by Daniel Clarke, Daniel Snaddon & James Clarke