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Book Reviews by subject:
Africa

November 2023 Issue

Raffaello Pantucci

Eastern Promises

Black Ghosts: A Journey into the Lives of Africans in China

By Noo Saro-Wiwa

August 2023 Issue

Martin Vander Weyer

The Ghanaian Job

Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By Yepoka Yeebo

June 2023 Issue

David Abulafia

View from the Camel’s Back

Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa

By Barry Cunliffe

December 2022 Issue

Barnaby Crowcroft

When African Royalty Went Dog Racing

Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity

By Moses E Ochonu

December 2022 Issue

Paul Morland

Between Battlefield & Fortress Europe

My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

By Sally Hayden

February 2022 Issue

Sara Wheeler

Words Writ on a Camel’s Shoulder

February 2021 Issue

Hilary Bradt

No Country for Old Men

The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

By John Gimlette

March 2020 Issue

Saul David

Conquer & Divide

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms

March 2002 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Atrocities that Should Not be Forgotten

The Key to My Neighbour's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

By Elizabeth Neuffer

December 1986 Issue

Ben Okri

A Celebration of Wole Soyinka

December 1994 Issue

Victoria Brittain

Plucky Couple Stuck on the African Railways

Blood on the Tracks

By Miles Bredin

April 1999 Issue

Victoria Glendinning

Perhaps There Is Something Wrong With Our Brains

Mara and Dann: An Adventure

By Doris Lessing

February 2019 Issue

Barnaby Crowcroft

Caravans & Cat Skins

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

By François-Xavier Fauvelle (Translated by Troy Tice)

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green

April 2018 Issue

Adrian Goldsworthy

Picnicking with Dido

In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives

By Barnaby Rogerson

March 2018 Issue

David Lewis-Williams

There Be Foragers

Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

By James Suzman

February 2018 Issue

Andrew Lycett

Dreaming of Gondar

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

October 1998 Issue

Julian Barnes

Lost Her Strangeness

Zarafa: The True Story of a Giraffe's Journey from the Plains of Africa to the Heart of Post-Napoleonic France

By Michael Allin

August 2017 Issue

Saul David

He Scorned the British

African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa

By Robert Gaudi

July 2017 Issue

Frank McLynn

Hearts of Darkness

Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa

By Steven Press

March 2017 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

No Elephant in the Room

Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa

By Keith Somerville