African History


King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Long Walk to Freedom
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,218 books — 3,274 voters

The Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichCode Girls by Liza MundyMaiden Voyages by Siân EvansThe Radium Girls by Kate  Moore
Women's Work
190 books — 30 voters

Africana by Kim ChakanetsaWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsAfrican Icons by Tracey BaptisteA Gift from Childhood by Baba Wagué DiakitéTraveling Man by James Rumford
Juvenile Nonfiction about Africa
83 books — 2 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBuck by M.K. AsanteThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Black biography
239 books — 64 voters

I WAS ABUSED! I WAS A VICTIM OF ABUSE. HE SPIT SPUT, DOGGED MY SPINE, DAMAGED MY RIB, PUNCHED MY FACE, RIPPED MY CLOTHES OFF. MOURNED ON MY BODY, SQUEEZED MY SKIN, PIMPED AND POUNDED THROUGH IT, CUT MY HYMEN INTO TINY PIECES OF FLESH, GONG GONG THE CATHOLIC BELL. RUN THROUGH ME, POISED AND MY BACK WAS HIS BRIDGE. PRUNED MY UNRIPE SKIN, FETISH ON MY SKIN I WAS THERE WATCHING HIM. SEPARATED FROM MY BODY AND SOUL. A VINE WITH OUT FLAVOR THAT WHAT HE LEFT. A VINE WITHOUT TASTE THAT WHAT HE LEFT.
Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche, Depth of colour

Zadie Smith
I would nod along for the sake of peace but in truth some part of me always rebelled. Why did he think it so important for me to know that Beethoven dedicated a sonata to a mulatto violinist, or that Shakespeare’s dark lady really was dark, or that Queen Victoria had deigned to raise a child of Africa, “bright as any white girl?” I did not want to rely on each European fact having its African shadow, as if without the scaffolding of the European fact everything African might turn to dust in my h ...more
Zadie Smith, Swing Time

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