Africa: Past and Future

Explore Africa's rich history and promising future with our curated list of must-read books. Discover insights on Africa's past, present, and future potential in these essential reads.

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Cover
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

by Philip Gourevitch

In 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy for the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi majority.
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A Continent for the Taking

by Howard W. French

In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of …
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King Leopold's Ghost

by Adam Hochschild

Documents the plundering of the territory.
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the …
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Men of Salt

by Michael Benanav

Century after century, camels and their drivers have traveled the sands between the fabled city of Timbuktu and the infamous salt mines of Taoudenni, hauling …
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Shake Hands with the Devil

by Roméo Dallaire

A Canadian general and former United Nations peacekeeper shares his harrowing eyewitness account of the genocide in Rwanda, revealing how he and his men managed …
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The Blue Nile

by Alan Moorehead

In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on …
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A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an …
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