Reading List: Africa

I’ve read all these books. Their inclusion on this list doesn’t mean that I recommend them all, or that I endorse the positions they espouse. This list is helpful if you want a full orbed view of the topics here listed. But please don’t confuse this list with being a list of books that represent MY position on various matters.

Tanzania

• Revolution in Zanzibar: An America’s Cold War Tale: . Donald Petterson.
• Tanzania: A Country Study.

North Africa

• Libya: A Desert Land in Conflict. Ted Gottfried.
• Libya and Qaddafi. Don Lawson.

Expatriate Memoirs

• Infidel. Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah
• The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur. Daoud Hari.

Travel/Missionary Memoirs

• Bill Bryson’s Africa Diary. Bill Bryson.
• Letters from Egypt. Lucie Duff Gordon.
• God led us to Somalia. Dorothy Smoker.

War/Violence/Revolution/Independence/Colonialism

• Africa: The Struggle for Independence. Dennis Wepman.
• Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War. Patrick Muana.