From the July 2010 Issue Sowing the Seeds of Growth Famine & Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid By Peter Gill LR
From the March 2010 Issue Testing Times Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir By Ngugi wa Thiong’o LR
From the May 2009 Issue Towards the Light We Have Tomorrow: Stirrings in Africa 1959–1967 By Peter Mackay LR
From the April 2009 Issue Trillion Dollar Question Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa By Dambisa Moyo (Foreword by Niall Ferguson) LR
From the September 2008 Issue Les Fous D’Afrique Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles By Richard Dowden LR
From the March 2007 Issue The Twilight of White Africa When a Crocodile Eats the Sun By Peter Godwin LR
From the October 2012 Issue Independence Days There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra By Chinua Achebe LR
From the June 2013 Issue Out of Love with Africa The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola By Paul Theroux LR
From the September 2013 Issue Oil Be Damned Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola By Daniel Metcalfe LR
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