Current Events in Africa

by Richard Dowden

A remarkably full-bodied and frank discussion of Africa’s place in the world. Full review >

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by Martin Meredith

Sharp-edged, politically astute and pessimistic: a good complement to John Reader’s Africa: A Biography of the Continent... Full review >

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by Peter Godwin

The author’s return to his beloved homeland transformed by violence and no longer familiar proves heart-wrenching and... Full review >

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by Jason K. Stearns

An important examination of a social disaster that seems both politically complex and cruelly senseless. Full review >

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by Alexandra Fuller

An illuminating, even thrillingly fresh perspective on the continent’s much-discussed post-colonial problems. Full review >

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by Robyn Scott

A colorful, occasionally shocking fish-out-of-water memoir. Full review >

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by Lauren St John

Articulates a dream and a love of Africa that makes Zimbabwe’s fate under Robert Mugabe seem all the more crueler. Full review >

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by V.S. Naipaul

A work more narrative than reflective, but Naipaul’s prose remains smooth, subtle, often silvery. Full review >

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by John Reader

Formidably researched, always readable, but necessarily incomplete. (55 b&w photos and maps) Full review >

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by Ahmed Kathrada

An intimate, welcome first-person account of a portion of South African history that remains foggy to many American readers. Full review >

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by Paul Collier

Rigorous analyses plus policy prescriptions make for a readable treatise. Full review >

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by Nelson Mandela

This memoir is remarkably free of polemics, self-pity, and self-aggrandizement. It is the work of a man who has led by... Full review >

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