Mary H KingsleyUpon her sudden freedom from family obligations, a sheltered Victorian spinster traded her stifling middle-class existence for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Mary Kingsley traversed uncharted regions...

Robert Louis Stevenson This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was...

Ernest Hemingway Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari in Africa, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking...

Harriet Beecher Stowe When Eliza Harris learns her son is to be sold to another master, she flees the Kentucky plantation where she is held as a slave, while Uncle...

Uplifting the Colonial Philistine: Florence Philips and the Making of the Johannesburg Art GalleryJillian CarmanUplifting the Colonial Philistine is a thoroughly researched, fascinating account of the unusual circumstances in which...

Esi EdugyanWashington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be...

Crystal WilkinsonWater Street examines the secret lives of neighbors and friends who live on Water Street in a small town in Kentucky. Love and truth and tragedy are revealed under...

NoViolet Bulawayo An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.Darling is only ten years old, and yet she...

Dave EggersFrom the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along...

Zinzi ClemmonsFrom an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age—a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and countryRaised in Pennsylvania,...

Peter GodwinAfter his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On...

Bryce Courtenay Synopsis From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people...