Historical African Biographies

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  • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela book cover
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  • The Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African (Dover Thrift Editions) book cover
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of British Authors) book cover
  • A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa book cover
  • The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands book cover
  • SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers book cover
  • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood book cover
  • Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone book cover
  • Desert Queen book cover
  • The Confessions of St. Augustine (Dover Thrift Editions) book cover
  • No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda book cover
  • Who Was King Tut? (Who Was?) book cover
  • Gandhi Before India book cover
  • Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives) book cover
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography book cover
  • African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan book cover
  • Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence book cover
  • TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DON'T WANT TO HEAR: A Liberal Life Under Apartheid book cover
  • Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over book cover
  • The Land of the Lion (1906) book cover
  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World book cover
  • The Last Mughal book cover
  • Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar: The Story of Charles Upham VC and Bar book cover
  • Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World book cover
  • Cockroaches book cover
  • African Adventure Stories (1914) book cover
  • My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience book cover
  • The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood book cover
  • They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan book cover
  • Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) book cover
  • Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders book cover
  • Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire book cover
  • Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali book cover
  • Nine Lives: My time as the MI6's top spy inside al-Qaeda book cover
  • The Wife's Tale: A Personal History book cover
  • Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS & Special Forces book cover
  • Three Years in Ethiopia: How a Civil War and Epidemics Led Me to My Daughter book cover
  • Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II book cover
  • From Sinai to Ethiopia book cover
  • From Falasha to Freedom: An Ethiopian Jew's Journey to Jerusalem book cover
  • Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation book cover
  • Suleiman the Magnificent book cover
  • Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel book cover
  • Mossad Exodus. The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe book cover
  • I Am Queen Nzinga: The Great Queen Warrior book cover
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  • Hunters Three: Sport and Adventure in South Africa (1895) book cover
  • The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave (Penguin Classics) book cover
  • My Early Life: 1874-1904 book cover
  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African: With linked Table of Contents book cover
  • Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (Milligan Memoirs Book 1) book cover
  • The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey book cover
  • Hannibal book cover
  • The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) book cover
  • Lumumba: Africa’s Lost Leader (Life & Times) book cover
  • David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer (Christian Heroes: Then & Now) book cover
  • Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire book cover
  • Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India book cover
  • Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood book cover
  • First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar [Illustrated] (1856) book cover
  • God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation book cover
  • At The Front: A General's Account Of South Africa's Border War book cover
  • The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy book cover
  • Amedeo: The True Story of an Italian’s War in Abyssinia: The True Story of an Italian's War in Abyssinia book cover
  • Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers [Illustrated] book cover
  • Let My People Go book cover
  • To Abyssinia, Through an Unknown Land: An Account of a Journey Through Unexplored Regions of British East Africa by Lake… book cover
  • King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (1905) book cover
  • The Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter 1864-1875 book cover
  • Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot book cover
  • How I Came to be Rhodesian: A rip-roaring but otherwise unremarkable Family History book cover
  • Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906 book cover
  • From the land of Pashtuns to the land of Maa book cover
  • A Marriage of Inconvenience: The Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama book cover
  • Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Illustrated) (1908) book cover
  • Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners book cover
  • Red Azalea book cover
  • Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour book cover
  • An Englishman at War: The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC & Bar 1939-1945 book cover
  • Among the Ibos of Nigeria: An Account of the Curious & Interesting Habits, Customs, & Beliefs of a Little Known African… book cover
  • Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey book cover
  • An Evil Cradling book cover
  • Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton book cover
  • Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen book cover
  • Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive book cover
  • Deeper Than Indigo: Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer book cover
  • To the Castle and Back book cover
  • Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness book cover
  • An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography book cover
  • Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour book cover
  • Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism book cover
  • Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography book cover
  • Winnie Mandela: A Life book cover
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Authors

Authors with:

2 authors with more than one book:

  • 2 - Olaudah Equiano
  • 2 - Joyce Tyldesley

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  • Milligan Memoirs (Book 1)

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