Popular African History Books

Born in Blackness

Howard W. French

African History
The Wisdom of Rastafari

Anonymous

African History
Tunisgrad

Saul David

History
The Kebra Nagast

Anonymous

African History
The Conquest of Morocco

Douglas Porch

History
Congo Unravelled

Andrew Hudson

African History
Great Decisions 2026

G. John Ikenberry & Foreign Policy Association

African History
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Joshua Hammer

African History
Black in Blues

Imani Perry

History
An African History of Africa

Zeinab Badawi

African History
Atlantic

Simon Winchester

History
South Africa: History in an Hour

Anthony Holmes

African History
When Moors Ruled Spain

Gerald Brenan

History
Libya

Alison Pargeter

African History
Mau Mau Rebellion

Nicholas van der Bijl

African History
Libya

Ronald Bruce St John

History
Libya

John Oakes

African History
Libya After Qaddafi

Christopher S. Chivvis & Jeffrey Martini

African History
Britain's Desert War in Egypt & Libya, 1940–1942

David Braddock

History
Eritrea: An Unbreakable People

Gamal E.O. Elhag-Idris

African History
Three Sips of Gin

Timothy Bax

African History
Speeches of the Emperor Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie

African History
Scouting on Two Continents

F.R. Burnham

African History
The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy

Fitz Balintine Pettersburg

African History
A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon & Haakon Chevalier

African History
Mistaking Africa

Curtis Keim & Carolyn Somerville

African History
A Rainbow in the Night

Dominique Lapierre

African History
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & W. E. B. Du Bois

African History
King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

African History
The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria

Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders

African History
River of the Gods

Candice Millard

History
Of Africa

Wole Soyinka

African History
The Storm of War

Andrew Roberts

History
Benghazi

Brandon Webb & Jack Murphy

History
There Was a Country

Chinua Achebe

African History
The Desert and the Sea

Michael Scott Moore

African History
Africa: A History

Alvin M. Josephy

African History
The African Origin of Civilization

Cheikh Anta Diop & Mercer Cook

African History
Machete Season

Jean Hatzfeld & Linda Coverdale

African History
Playing the Enemy

John Carlin

African History
Invictus

John Carlin

African History
Into Africa

Thomas Sterling

African History
The Explorers

Martin Dugard

African History
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney & Angela Davis

African History
The Fall of the Ottomans

Eugene Rogan

History
The Looting Machine

Tom Burgis

African History
Imperial Reckoning

Caroline Elkins

African History
Too Close to the Sun

Sara Wheeler

African History
Between Man and Beast

Monte Reel

History
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky

Benjamin Ajak, Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng & Judy A. Bernstein

African History
A Savage War of Peace

Alistair Horne

African History
Travels

Paul Bowles

African History
African Game Trails

Theodore Roosevelt

African History
Country of My Skull

Antjie Krog

African History
Mukiwa

Peter Godwin

African History
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

Jason K. Stearns

African History
Precolonial Black Africa

Cheikh Anta Diop

African History
The Fate of Africa

Martin Meredith

African History
White Gold

Giles Milton

History
Blood River

Tim Butcher

African History
The Defense of Duffer's Drift

Ernest Dunlop Swinton

African History
A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition

Leonard Thompson

African History
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms

Steve Kemper

African History
Pirates of Barbary

Adrian Tinniswood

History
A Thousand Hills

Stephen Kinzer

African History
A Handful of Hard Men

Hannes Wessels

African History
White Malice

Susan Williams

African History
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures

John Henry Patterson

African History
The Lumumba Plot

Stuart A. Reid

African History
MANSA MUSA: Emperor of The Wealthy Mali Empire

History Titans

African History
The Barbary Corsairs

Jacques Heers

History
African History

John Parker & Richard Rathbone

African History
War of Shadows

Gershom Gorenberg

History
The Zulus at War

Adrian Greaves & Xolani Mkhize

African History
Life Laid Bare

Jean Hatzfeld & Linda Coverdale

African History
The Emperor

Ryszard Kapuscinski

African History
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

J.A. Rogers

African History
Introduction to African Civilizations

John G. Jackson

African History
The Fortunes of Africa

Martin Meredith

African History
Destination Casablanca

Meredith Hindley

African History
Karamojo Safari

W. D. M. Bell

African History
The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

W. D. M. Bell

African History
After Mandela

Douglas Foster

African History
The African Exploration Anthology

Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Mungo Park, Samuel White Baker & Mary H. Kingsley

African History
100 Greatest African Kings And Queens

Pusch Komiete Commey

African History
The Darker Nations

Vijay Prashad

African History
The Zanzibar Chest

Aidan Hartley

African History
The Epic of Gilgamish

R. Campbell Thompson

African History
A Brief History of South Africa

David S Warner

African History
The Desert War

Alan Moorehead

History
Return to Laughter

Elenore Smith Bowen

African History
Operation Certain Death

Damien Lewis

African History
Reversing Sail

Michael A. Gomez

African History
Another Day of Life

Ryszard Kapuscinski

African History
Memories of An African Hunter

Denis D. Lyell

African History
Gaddafi's Harem

Annick Cojean

African History
The Ghosts of Happy Valley

Juliet Barnes

African History
The Masque of Africa

V. S. Naipaul

African History
Soldiers of Fortune

Max Siollun

African History
Born Free: The Full Story

Joy Adamson

African History

Howard W. French

African History

Anonymous

African History

Saul David

History

Anonymous

African History

Douglas Porch

History

Andrew Hudson

African History

G. John Ikenberry & Foreign Policy Association

African History

Joshua Hammer

African History

Imani Perry

History

Zeinab Badawi

African History

Simon Winchester

History

Anthony Holmes

African History

Gerald Brenan

History

Alison Pargeter

African History

Nicholas van der Bijl

African History

Ronald Bruce St John

History

John Oakes

African History

Christopher S. Chivvis & Jeffrey Martini

African History

David Braddock

History

Gamal E.O. Elhag-Idris

African History

Timothy Bax

African History

Haile Selassie

African History

F.R. Burnham

African History

Fitz Balintine Pettersburg

African History

Frantz Fanon & Haakon Chevalier

African History

Curtis Keim & Carolyn Somerville

African History

Dominique Lapierre

African History

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & W. E. B. Du Bois

African History

Adam Hochschild

African History

Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders

African History

Candice Millard

History

Wole Soyinka

African History

Andrew Roberts

History

Brandon Webb & Jack Murphy

History

Chinua Achebe

African History

Michael Scott Moore

African History

Alvin M. Josephy

African History

Cheikh Anta Diop & Mercer Cook

African History

Jean Hatzfeld & Linda Coverdale

African History

John Carlin