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Central Africa Books
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,769 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,268 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.43 — 575,590 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.12 — 813,279 ratings — published 1998
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.76 — 19,203 ratings — published 1979
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.10 — 811 ratings — published 2006
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,911 ratings — published 2010
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,094 ratings — published 1998
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,222 ratings — published 2023
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,331 ratings — published 2000
Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.15 — 46 ratings — published 1997
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,191 ratings — published 2023
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.07 — 153 ratings — published
How Beautiful We Were (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,801 ratings — published 2021
A General Theory of Oblivion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,576 ratings — published 2012
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,121 ratings — published 2003
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,308 ratings — published 2007
The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,862 ratings — published 2021
Co-Wives, Co-Widows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.83 — 494 ratings — published 2015
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.26 — 42 ratings — published 2007
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,690 ratings — published 2017
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.72 — 179 ratings — published 2021
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,440 ratings — published 2021
Terug naar Kongo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.75 — 315 ratings — published 1987
La bastarda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,498 ratings — published 2016
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (Zaire)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.45 — 78 ratings — published 1989
Batouala (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.30 — 264 ratings — published 1921
Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.67 — 104 ratings — published 2002
The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.73 — 581 ratings — published 2006
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,664 ratings — published 2006
Another Day of Life (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,355 ratings — published 1976
State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic (African Arguments)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.90 — 49 ratings — published
Central African Republic in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1989
Making Sense of the Central African Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.02 — 61 ratings — published 2015
Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa By Truck, Bus, Boat, And Camel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.86 — 294 ratings — published 2005
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,740 ratings — published 2003
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.47 — 957 ratings — published 2013
Johnny Mad Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 3.91 — 461 ratings — published 2002
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.44 — 48,578 ratings — published 2006
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as central-africa)
avg rating 4.08 — 635 ratings — published 2001
Good Morning, Gorillas (Magic Tree House, #26)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,024 ratings — published 2002
By Night the Mountain Burns (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 3.49 — 502 ratings — published 2008
A History of Equatorial Guinea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Country Jumper in Chad: History Books for Kids Series (History for Kids)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Son of the Congo: A Journey of Tragedy, Triumph, and Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 4.75 — 12 ratings — published
Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2013
The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 4.02 — 52 ratings — published 2001
Second Class Citizen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,222 ratings — published 1974
African Saints: Saints, Martyrs, and Holy People from the Continent of Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as central-africa)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2002
“The desert reveals its secrets; the great mystery of interior Africa is revealed day by day.”
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“Leopold II did his utmost to pacify his Congo Free State, by putting an end to the incessant tribal wars (with ensuing atrocities including cannibalism), and by defeating the Arab slave traders who were decimating the population of the eastern part of the country, with the assistance of local tribes such as the Batetela.”
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