Books most popular in the United States●Africa

Check out the latest list of books that people in the United States are enjoying the most right now. The list is ordered by popularity and the genre of the list is History > Africa.

1. Cobalt Red - How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives - COBALT RED

Release date: 2023-02-07 $9.99
2. King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild. A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Release date: 1999-09-03 $14.99
3. Breaker Morant - Peter FitzSimons

Release date: 2020-10-27 Genre:History $11.99
4. Boko Haram - Brandon Kendhammer & Carmen McCain

Release date: 2018-10-08 $16.99
5. A Thousand Hills - Stephen Kinzer. Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Release date: 2009-05-04 $25.99
6. Reversing Sail - Michael A. Gomez. A History of the African Diaspora: Second Edition

Release date: 2019-10-10 $23.99
7. MANSA MUSA: Emperor of The Wealthy Mali Empire - History Titans

Release date: 2020-03-10 $2.99
8. The Boer War - Winston S. Churchill

Release date: 2013-07-23 $2.99
9. Three Sips of Gin - Timothy Bax. Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts

Release date: 2013-08-19 $11.99
10. African Dominion - Michael Gomez. A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

Release date: 2018-01-01 $20.99
11. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney & Angela Davis

Release date: 2018-11-27 $9.99
12. River of the Gods - Candice Millard. Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Release date: 2022-05-17 Genre:History $14.99
Comments

1. Looking forward to travel across Africa and instead… - I enjoy reading books about early explorers because I enjoy the journey and greatly admire the courage and determination it takes. However, this book took me instead through the petty in-fighting of these early English explorers and gave so little detail about the journey itself. So disappointing and I was completely un-inspired. Bleh
2022-08-19
13. Born Free: The Full Story - Joy Adamson. Story of Elsa #1-3

Release date: 2015-02-26 $0.99
14. A Dying Colonialism - Frantz Fanon & Haakon Chevalier

Release date: 2022-09-27 $9.99
15. Lose Your Mother - Saidiya Hartman. A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Release date: 2008-01-22 $9.99
16. African Game Trails - Theodore Roosevelt

Release date: 2017-08-20 $0.99
17. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - Joshua Hammer. And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

Release date: 2016-04-19 $13.99
18. The African Origin of Civilization - Cheikh Anta Diop. Myth or Reality

Release date: 1989-07-01 $13.99
19. The Biafra Story - Frederick Forsyth. The Making of an African Legend

Release date: 2015-03-21 Genre:History $11.99
20. The Africans - David Lamb

Release date: 1987-06-12 $8.99
21. Speeches of the Emperor Haile Selassie - Haile Selassie

Release date: 2020-07-02 $0.99
22. There Was a Country - Chinua Achebe. A Memoir

Release date: 2012-10-11 $14.99
Comments

1. There was a country - The Biafran-Nigerian war was a tragedy that could have been averted just like the way Nigeria is drifting to self destruction now.Achebe is a writer that scripts things the way they are without any embellishments. He presented some portions of the before,during,and after events of the war as they were.How I wish we will learn from history,but unfortunately the African Man never does.
2012-10-06

2. There was a Country - Without a doubt, Chinua Achebe is one of the greats of modern literature in the English language, and perhaps the greatest to come out of my native Nigeria and the African continent. I cannot wait to read this account. My only concern though is that he holds nothing back and that the book says a lot more that has already been said elsewhere by Achebe and others about the Biafran story.
2012-09-23

3. Touching - I am Igbo. My father fought in this war. Growing up I only got one side of the story, but as I aged, I began to realize that it's important to understand both sides of every story. This war was tragic, but thanks to this book and authors like Uncle Achebe, I'm coming to terms with my history (past and present).
2012-08-03

4. An author and a gentleman - I have read and discussed most of Uncle Chinua's books growing up with my siblings, parents, classmates and teachers. I look forward to understanding my past and making sense of the present as I discuss with my children what it means to be "ourselves" - Ibo and Nigerian in Nigeria today.
2012-07-22
23. Machete Season - Jean Hatzfeld & Linda Coverdale. The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Release date: 2006-04-18 $12.99
24. South Africa: History in an Hour - Anthony Holmes

Release date: 2012-04-05 $3.99
25. Playing the Enemy - John Carlin. Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Release date: 2008-08-14 $13.99
26. Into Africa - Thomas Sterling

Release date: 2016-03-16 $9.99
Comments

1. Light and fluffy - If this is meant to be a YA book, it is possibly adequate, but appalling in several instances. For example, native Africans are relentlessly called cannibals, and the author shows little insight into their lives. Details are very sketchy, and what should be fascinating episodes are reduced to little more than hurried paragraphs.
2017-03-19
27. Invictus - John Carlin. Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Release date: 2008-08-14 $12.99
28. The Explorers - Martin Dugard. A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

Release date: 2014-06-03 $13.99
29. The Fall of the Ottomans - Eugene Rogan. The Great War in the Middle East

Release date: 2015-03-10 Genre:History $14.99
Comments

1. Thorough history of WWI in the Ottoman Empire - Chronological account of the changing human civilizations inhabiting this part of the world. Wars bring out the worst of humanity and seldom provide the intended results. Entry into the First World War by the Turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire doomed it’s existence.
2021-10-11
30. Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & W. E. B. Du Bois. An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

Release date: 2014-02-01 $16.99
31. Imperial Reckoning - Caroline Elkins. The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Release date: 2010-04-01 $0.99
32. It's Our Turn to Eat - Michela Wrong. The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower

Release date: 2009-06-16 $13.99
33. Between Man and Beast - Monte Reel. An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm

Release date: 2013-03-12 Genre:History $4.99
34. The Looting Machine - Tom Burgis. Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

Release date: 2016-05-03 $11.99
35. The Black History Book - DK. Big Ideas Simply Explained

Release date: 2021-11-23 Genre:History $9.99
36. Too Close to the Sun - Sara Wheeler. The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Release date: 2007-04-24 $5.99
37. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky - Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng & Judy A. Bernstein. The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

Release date: 2015-08-11 $10.99
38. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Release date: 2015-04-22 $7.99
39. Mukiwa - Peter Godwin. A White Boy in Africa

Release date: 2011-06-22 $9.99
40. Country of My Skull - Antjie Krog. Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

Release date: 1999-02-22 $9.99
41. The Defense of Duffer's Drift - Ernest Dunlop Swinton

Release date: 2013-03-03 $0.99
42. A Savage War of Peace - Alistair Horne. Algeria 1954-1962

Release date: 2006-10-10 $13.99
43. The Fate of Africa - Martin Meredith. A History of the Continent Since Independence

Release date: 2011-09-06 $12.99
44. A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa - Steve Kemper

Release date: 2012-06-25 $14.99
45. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz - Michela Wrong. Living on the Brink of Disaster in the

Release date: 2009-10-13 $13.99
46. Blood River - Tim Butcher. The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

Release date: 2009-09-15 $11.99
47. Pirates of Barbary - Adrian Tinniswood. Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean

Release date: 2010-11-11 Genre:History $8.99
48. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War - Howard W. French

Release date: 2021-10-12 $15.99
49. A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition - Leonard Thompson

Release date: 2014-04-29 $19.99
50. White Gold - Giles Milton. The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves

Release date: 2006-06-13 Genre:History $11.99