Participation – Spice it Up! Practical tools for engaging children and young people in planning and consultations

This fun and lively manual provides more than 40 tried-and-tested activities and games to get children and young people involved …

Allah is not Obliged

‘Allah is not obliged to be fair about the things he does on earth.’ These are the words from the …

Disgrace

This Booker Prize winning novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, is about redemption, the shift in political power and the …

Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight

Alexander Fuller’s much-talked-about memoir records her childhood in war-torn Africa, with a focus on the difficult relationships between settlers and …

Do They Hear You When You Cry

The 17-year-old Fauziya Kassindja made headlines in 1996 when she was the first female to be granted asylum in the …

The Bottom Billion

In this latest book, former World Bank economist Paul Collier has identified fifty eight stagnating countries where nearly one billion …

Country of My Skull

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa oversaw three committees dealing with human rights violations, reparations and amnesty …

The Grass is Singing

This is Lessing’s first novel and tells the story of Dick and Mary Turner, ‘white’ farmers in a remote part …

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo

This thrilling book recounts the extravagant tyranny of Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) for …

The Famished Road

Ben Okri’s Booker prize-winning novel draws on the Nigerian belief in “spirit children” who die and are continuously reborn.

Burger’s Daughter

Set in South Africa during the apartheid regime, this novel is about the beginning of a young white woman’s political …

Things Fall Apart

CHINUA ACHEBE’s “Things Fall Apart” is Africa’s best known work of literature and is accepted as the first great post-colonial …

28 Stories of AIDS in Africa

The book documents the ‘stories’ of 28 people from across Africa of how they became infected with HIV and their …

The Long Walk to Freedom