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 …

The Long Walk to Freedom

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 …