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Facing the Lion
by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
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2003
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128 pages
3.89
1.5K ratings
Africa
Memoir
Biography
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
by Joshua Hammer
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2016
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280 pages
3.49
12.1K ratings
History
Africa
Books About Books
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
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1949
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342 pages
3.89
29.8K ratings
Classics
Africa
Travel
Chasing Chaos
by Jessica Alexander
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2013
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400 pages
4.09
3.0K ratings
Memoir
Travel
Africa
Song of the Nightingale
by Helen Berhane
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2009
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113 pages
4.35
167 ratings
Biography
Africa
Christian
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
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1999
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220 pages
3.86
113.0K ratings
Africa
South Africa
Classics
Surrender or Starve
by Robert D. Kaplan
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1988
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222 pages
3.66
463 ratings
Africa
History
Travel
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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2013
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477 pages
4.32
396.5K ratings
Book Club
Africa
Contemporary
In the Country of Others
by Leïla Slimani
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2020
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305 pages
3.77
16.3K ratings
Historical Fiction
France
Africa
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
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2009
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560 pages
4.33
412.7K ratings
Book Club
Historical Fiction
Africa
Dead Aid
by Dambisa Moyo
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2009
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188 pages
3.7
8.1K ratings
Economics
Africa
Politics
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina
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2006
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224 pages
4.19
6.7K ratings
Africa
Biography
History