Frank McLynn

Hearts of Darkness

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

By Steven Press

LR

March 2017 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

No Elephant in the Room

Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa

By Keith Somerville

LR

March 2017 Issue

David Gelber

The Woman Who Would Be King

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

By Linda M Heywood

LR

February 2017 Issue

Saul David

Hearts of Darkness

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa – 1830–1990

By Lawrence James

LR

December 2016 Issue

R W Johnson

Volk Tales

Bridge over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

By Kajsa Norman

August 1992 Issue

Kathryn Hughes

Kings of their own Castles

Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa

By Frank McLynn

LR

August 1980 Issue

Amiri Baraka

Ngugi

LR

February 2003 Issue

Richard Dowden

The Vampires of Africa

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

By Paul Theroux

LR

April 2016 Issue

Andrew Lycett

The Great Globe Itself

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

LR

May 1983 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Chronicles of Revolution

Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia

By David Caute

LR

March 1985 Issue

Charles Sturridge

Labels & Remote People

Labels

By Evelyn Waugh

Remote People

By Evelyn Waugh

LR

December 2015 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Long Live the King?

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

By Craig Packer

LR

May 1988 Issue

Quentin Crewe

Birds Drop from the Skies

A Desert Dies

By Michael Asher

LR

March 2003 Issue

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

LR

June 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

Where’s Monty?

An Army at Dawn: The War In North Africa, 1942-1943

By Rick Atkinson

LR

June 2003 Issue

Aidan Hartley

Waifs and Strays

Bay of Tigers: A Journey Through War-Torn Angola

By Pedro Rosa Mendes, Clifford Landers (trans)

LR

September 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

Watching The River Flow

The Nile

By Robert O Collins

LR

October 2003 Issue

Sara Wheeler

Travelling Companions

Hemingway In Africa: The Last Safari

By Christopher Ondaatje

LR

November 2003 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Perishing Pioneers

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

By Anthony Sattin

LR

March 2015 Issue

Adam Roberts

Going for a Steal

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

By Tom Burgis

LR

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