For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Michael Holman

From the December 2010 Issue

Mandela, Inc

Conversations with Myself

By Nelson Mandela

From the July 2010 Issue

Sowing the Seeds of Growth

Famine & Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid

By Peter Gill

From the May 2010 Issue

Home Security

The Last Resort: A Zimbabwe Memoir

By Douglas Rogers

From the March 2010 Issue

Testing Times

Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir

By Ngugi wa Thiong’o

From the May 2009 Issue

Towards the Light

We Have Tomorrow: Stirrings in Africa 1959–1967

By Peter Mackay

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)

From the September 2008 Issue

Les Fous D’Afrique

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

By Richard Dowden

From the March 2007 Issue

The Twilight of White Africa

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

By Peter Godwin

From the October 2012 Issue

Independence Days

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By Chinua Achebe

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

From the September 2013 Issue

Oil Be Damned

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola

By Daniel Metcalfe