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Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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The Two Week Traveller
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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Killing Karoline
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3.80 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Back to Angola: A Journey from War to Peace
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3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 32,203 ratings
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The Fifth Mrs Brink: A Memoir
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4.26 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Reeva: A Mother's Story
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3.96 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
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4.19 avg rating — 853 ratings
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More Truth Lies And Propaganda
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Lucinda E. Clarke (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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My Two Centuries in Africa: How a Funny-Looking Kid from Indiana Wound Up on an Endless African Adventure
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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How to Commit Suicide in South Africa
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Thembe's Cloth
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Glenda Ralph-Hay (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
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3.59 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Longing for Africa: Journeys Inspired by the Life of Jane Goodall Part One: Ethiopia
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4.43 avg rating — 61 ratings
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New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
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3.06 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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4.10 avg rating — 2,589 ratings
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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
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4.41 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
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3.78 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
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Jessica Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 3,069 ratings
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Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
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3.62 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Into Africa: 3 Kids, 13 Crates and a Husband
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Ann Patras (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 253 ratings
score: 96,
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Africa In My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
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4.06 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
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3.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman
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3.95 avg rating — 484 ratings
score: 94,
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
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3.99 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
score: 93,
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
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4.09 avg rating — 3,257 ratings
score: 92,
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The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
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3.95 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
score: 91,
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
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3.90 avg rating — 3,896 ratings
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Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
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3.74 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 89,
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Bloodlines: A Tale from the Heart of Africa
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 88,
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A Tale from the Heart: Temporary Natives
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Seitu Hayden (illustrator)
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 87,
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African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston
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4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 86,
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Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa
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3.27 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 85,
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
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4.04 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
score: 84,
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 789,569 ratings
score: 83,
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A Rock and a Hard Place: An American Geologist's Adventures in Africa
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3.84 avg rating — 67 ratings
score: 82,
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
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3.90 avg rating — 1,529 ratings
score: 81,
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Into Africa: Three Years in Sub-Saharan Africa at the End of the Cold War
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Mike Connell (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 80,
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Finding the Source: One Man’s Quest for Healing in West Africa
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Dave Kobrenski (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 79,
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I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
score: 78,
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Warda My Journey from the Horn of Africa to a College Education
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Warda Mohamed Abdullahi (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 77,
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Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto
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Edafe Okporo (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 639 ratings
score: 76,
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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away
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4.06 avg rating — 761 ratings
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Among the Maasai: A Memoir
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Juliet Cutler (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 210 ratings
score: 74,
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
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4.10 avg rating — 326 ratings
score: 73,
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The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery
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3.88 avg rating — 220 ratings
score: 72,
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A Million Years with You: A Memoir of Life Observed
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3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Walter and Albertina Sisulu : In Our Lifetime
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Elinor Sisulu (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 70,
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The life and works of Bhekizizwe Joseph Shabalala and the Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Sediments of Time
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4.15 avg rating — 439 ratings
score: 68,
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An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
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Danell Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 67,
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Dreaming of Lions: My Life in the Wild Places
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3.85 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
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4.35 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
score: 65,
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
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4.17 avg rating — 3,713 ratings
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
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3.89 avg rating — 2,679 ratings
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Life and Death on the Nile: A Bioethnography of Three Ancient Nubian Communities
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 62,
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