Richard Dowden

The Vampires of Africa

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

By Paul Theroux

Andrew Lycett

The Great Globe Itself

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Christopher Hitchens

Chronicles of Revolution

Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia

By David Caute

Charles Sturridge

Labels & Remote People

Labels

By Evelyn Waugh

Remote People

By Evelyn Waugh

Patrick Scrivenor

Long Live the King?

Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

By Craig Packer

Quentin Crewe

Birds Drop from the Skies

A Desert Dies

By Michael Asher

Justin Marozzi

Desert Cockerels

The Sword and the Cross: The Conquest of the Sahara

By Fergus Fleming

Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert

By Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle

Aidan Hartley

Waifs and Strays

Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola

By Pedro Rosa Mendes, Clifford Landers (trans)

Sara Wheeler

Travelling Companions

Hemingway In Africa: The Last Safari

By Christopher Ondaatje

Justin Marozzi

Perishing Pioneers

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Searchh for Timbuktu

By Anthony Sattin

Adam Roberts

Going for a Steal

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers, and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth

By Tom Burgis

Lyndall Gordon

In & Out of Africa

Leaving Before the Rains Come

By Alexandra Fuller

Christabel King

The Explorer’s Wife

The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

By Pat Shipman

Ronald Mutebi

A Kingdom of Their Own

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

Christopher Ondaatje

Developing the Dark Continent

The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future

By Robert Guest

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The Bushman’s Song

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct Peopl

By Neil Bennun

Anthony Daniels

Following the Greenes

Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit

By Tim Butcher

Jonathan Mirsky

Lampa-Lampa

I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa

By Paul Kenyon

Michael Holman

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)

Michael Holman

Les Fous D’Afrique

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

By Richard Dowden