Africa

Rough Crossings

Simon Schama

Listening for Lions

Gloria Whelan

Mirage

Nina Burleigh

I Didn't Do It for You

Michela Wrong

This Voice in My Heart

Gilbert Tuhabonye, Gary Brozek

African Laughter

Doris Lessing

Ritual

Malidoma Patrice Some

Ashanti to Zulu

Margaret Musgrove

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

Verna Aardema

A Fistful of Shells

Toby Green

The White Giraffe

Lauren St. John

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor

Scribbling the Cat

Alexandra Fuller

Journey Without Maps

Graham Greene

The Centurions

Jean Larteguy, Paul Woodson

The Dawn Watch

Maya Jasanoff

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

Justin Pollard, Howard Reid

The Slave Ship

Marcus Rediker

Playing the Enemy

John Carlin

Tinderbox

Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin

There Was a Country

Chinua Achebe

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

The Bitter Side of Sweet

Tara Sullivan

Zomo the Rabbit

Gerald McDermott

Untapped

John Ghazvinian

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

Ian Shaw

The Slave Coast of West Africa 1550-1750

Robin Law

Apartheid, 1948-1994

Saul Dubow

Algeria

Martin Evans

Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

Andrew S. Natsios