East Africa Books


The Wizard Of The Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted	Koinange-Wa-Mbiyu: Mau Mau's Misunderstood Leader Best Price: $126.02 Called "the evil genius behind the Mau Mau" by the last British governor of Kenya,...	Early Days in Somaliland Best Price: $70.39	A Knight in Africa: Journey from Bukene Best Price: $862.46	Child Soldier: Fighting For My Life Best Price: $23.99 This is the heartrending account of the author's terrifying journey out of her family home...



World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent Best Price: $18.00 The Great War in Africa has very few books to define it, and in some cases the better books are...	Queremos informarle que manana seremos asesinados junto con nuestra familia/ We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $27.04	Church and State in Tanzania: Aspects of Changing in Relationships, 1961-1994 (Studies of Religion in Africa) Best Price: $5.75 For a long time Tanzania, under its charismatic President Nyerere, was considered to be a model....	Eviction from the Chagos Islands (African History) Best Price: $71.69 This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were...	Twelve Years in Ethiopia: Book 2 (Discoveries) In this second installment of D'Abbadie's memoir of exploration in Ethiopia, our...



Kikuyu District A compelling book that is filled with adventure, struggle and even romance. This unique book,...	Eritrea (Africa in Focus) Located in eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea between Djibouti and Sudan, Eritrea is a poor...	Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum is a collection of accounts...	The Emperor : Downfall of an Autocrat Best Price: $6.36 I purchased this volume seeking some insight into the origination of the Rastafarie religion...	Societies, Religion, and History: Central-East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE (Gutenberg-e) Best Price: $25.00 Scholars often equate a Swahili presence with the moment history began on the Tanzanian central...

Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History, Society (Columbia/Hurst) Best Price: $50.00 I have read nearly everything written by IM Lewis. His writing style can be a bit complicated,...	Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State Best Price: $12.99 RC's dividend from his 5 years as Africa editor of 'The Economist' is an ambitious,...	Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster Best Price: $73.33 Darfur's Sorrow is the first general history of Darfur to be published in any language. The...	"Here Is Hell": Canada's Engagement in Somalia Best Price: $39.10 For many Canadians, events during the mission to Somalia in the early 1990s remain a stain on...	Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $49.92 The Kingdom of Bunyoro's story demonstrates convincingly that environmental change there was...

Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $52.67 Zanzibar stands at the centre of the Indian Ocean system's involvement in the history of...	Rwanda, Un Programme D'Action Internationale (Oxfam Insight)	Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes Best Price: $21.90 This book is good for the student who wants a quick overview of Uganda history from 1960 to...	Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 63 Best Price: $121.00 This volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers includes a study of military and diplomatic initiatives...	Two Kingdoms of Uganda: Snakes and Ladders in the Scramble for Africa

First Footsteps in East Africa (Volume 1); Or, an Exploration of Harar Best Price: $30.23 Volume: 1 Publisher: London : Tylston Publication date: 1894 Subjects: Harari language ...	The Innocents Abroad - Volume 06 Best Price: $19.99 The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in...	The Maasai Miracle Sword Best Price: $15.78 lost sword for over a century, comes to light ! to change history for a nation of people to...	Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania Best Price: $38.59 * Uses an instructive historical event to show how NGOs with good intentions are sometimes...	Kigezi and Its People (Kraftgriots Series)

Grasp the Shield Firmly the Journey is Hard. A History of Luo and Bantu migrations to North Mara, (Tanzania) 1850-1950 Best Price: $39.94 This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking...	Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda,...	Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur Best Price: $8.03 This is the most disturbing and, perhaps, the most important book you will ever read. I could...	Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival Best Price: $4.00 In February, 2003, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) after...	Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with...

Ng'ombe wa Maskini (Hadithi za Uswahilini) (Swahili Edition) Harakati za kuondokana na umaskini	The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda Best Price: $10.40 I have read many books about Uganda, even liven for a long while in Kampala. Therefore now that...	I Refuse to Die: My Journey For Freedom An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I...	The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur Best Price: $1.69 Last night I saw the film `The Devil Came On Horseback'. Through the efforts of Brian and...	Three Famines: Starvation and Politics Best Price: $5.87 Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three...

Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State (African Arguments) Best Price: $19.06 Somalia is a comprehensively failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbors, and...	Time for Machetes In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens - about...	Rwanda: La Preuve Assassinee - Meutre, Attaques, Arrestation et Intimidation de Survivants et Temoins (French Edition)	I am Just a Sukuma: Globalization and Identity Construction in Northwest Tanzania (Church and Theology in Context 41) Best Price: $50.00	Soldiers to the Rescue: Humanitarian Lessons from Rwanda Best Price: $100.94 The human tragedy in Rwanda came upon most people unexpectedly. In the desperate conditions...

The Courage for Change. Re-Engineering the University of Dar es Salaam Best Price: $32.95 African universities including the University of Dar es Salaam faced major resource constraints...	Uganda: Cultures and Customs and National Identity Best Price: $16.95 The cultures and customs of Uganda is one of the main subjects covered in the book. The work...	The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan This volume presents a new synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan, a region which for...	Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1986-97 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $42.95 In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under...	Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa Best Price: $59.64 The Swiss missionaries played a primary role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the...

A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $44.77 Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through...	Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884-1914 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $60.00 This study examines the complex history of slavery in East Africa, focusing on the area that...	Drums of Rebellion: Kenya in Chaos Best Price: $24.95 From the back cover:	Financial Institutions in Eritrea This work is an examination of banking and other financial institutions in Eritrea. The...	Staring at the Nyanza Sun: A Kenyan-American Memoir Best Price: $16.84 I am glad I found this book. Young Odenyo is born to one of the first Christian converts in...

Left to Tell Best Price: $11.37 Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in...	Canada in Sudan: War Without Borders Best Price: $11.92 An ancient Arab proverb states, "When Allah made the Sudan, he laughed." Had he known...	Darfur: A New History of a Long War (African Arguments) Best Price: $5.50 I purchased this book for my class on Conflict and Conflict Resolution at San Diego State. This...	Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence (Critical Human Rights) Best Price: $22.48 In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country?s new...	Colonial Legacy in Somalia Best Price: $180.42 The tragic events in Somalia in the 1990s, with the collapse of the Somali state and the failure...

The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger Best Price: $3.99 The book collects the stories of 6 of the participants, each reporting on their view and...	Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster Best Price: $1.25 Darfur's Sorrow is the first general history of Darfur to be published in any language. The...	Out of Africa (Traveller's) Best Price: $10.00 In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her...	Key to My Neighbours House Best Price: $21.02 From her unique vantage point as a reporter directly covering the reality and aftermath of...	Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda Best Price: $30.00 Winner of the 2011 African Studies Association Herskovits Award Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts...

Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $122.02 What do ordinary women in an African city do in the face of an AIDS epidemic without the benefit...	African Womanhood In Colonial Kenya: 1900-1950 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $24.92 "This is the most interesting general Kenyan social history that I have had the pleasure to...	African Underclass: Urbanization, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam 1919-61 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $29.92 African Underclass examines the social, political, and administrative repercussions of rapid...	The Swahili Coast, 2nd to 19th Centuries: Islam, Christianity and Commerce in Eastern Africa (Variorum Collected Studies)	Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes Best Price: $49.95

Ethiopia and the United States: History, Diplomacy, and Analysis Best Price: $49.76 The author covers the history of relations between Ethiopia and the United States, he describes...	Hausaland, or, Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan Best Price: $18.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by Sampson Low, Marston and...	First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar Best Price: $15.55 One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer?s first-hand epic account of...	Travels In The Coastlands Of British East Africa And The Islands Of Zanzibar And Pemba: Their Agricultural Resources And General Characteristics Best Price: $38.04 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur Best Price: $7.89 This is an intense, vivid report and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur by a former...

The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence Best Price: $13.23 This book was difficult to read. The horrible things these men did to these women is shocking....	Slave: My True Story Best Price: $6.06 I wish I had blinking red lights and a siren beside of my Review of this book, to catch the eye...	Kenya: From Colonization to Independence, 1888-1970 Best Price: $32.50 This book relates a series of events leading from Kenya?s colonization through its emergence as...	Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of the Lost Pirate Utopias of the Indian Ocean Best Price: $4.40 Unless you are a lot more adventurous than I am, the closest you will ever get to most of the...	Lost Boy No More: A True Story of Survival and Salvation Best Price: $3.11 Lost Boy No More is a powerful, important book. More than just a story, it is a challenge to...

Islam and Politics in East Africa: The Sufi Order in Tanzania (Minesota Archive Editions) Best Price: $50.00 Very Nice and Informative Book on The Sufi Order in East Africa. I would treasure this book.	Ethiopia Best Price: $63.50 From the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Ethiopian society has been in a state of major...	Modern History Of The Somali: Revised/Fourth Edition (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $21.95 I.M. Lewis is the recognized expert on Somali cultural anthropology. He presents detailed and...	The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990 Best Price: $29.33	Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $29.92 For centuries, Kenya?s game-laden plains and forests were the rewarding hunting grounds of her...

Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $16.45 Since 1991, Ethiopia has gone further than any other country in using ethnicity as the...	The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika Best Price: $66.53	African Underclass: Urbanization, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam 1919-61 (Eastern African Studies) Best Price: $29.92 African Underclass examines the social, political, and administrative repercussions of rapid...	The Swahili Coast, 2nd to 19th Centuries: Islam, Christianity and Commerce in Eastern Africa (Variorum Collected Studies)	Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes Best Price: $49.95

Ethiopia and the United States: History, Diplomacy, and Analysis Best Price: $49.76 The author covers the history of relations between Ethiopia and the United States, he describes...	Hausaland, or, Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan Best Price: $18.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by Sampson Low, Marston and...	First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar Best Price: $15.55 One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer?s first-hand epic account of...	Travels In The Coastlands Of British East Africa And The Islands Of Zanzibar And Pemba: Their Agricultural Resources And General Characteristics Best Price: $38.04 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,...	The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur Best Price: $7.89 This is an intense, vivid report and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur by a former...

The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence Best Price: $13.23 This book was difficult to read. The horrible things these men did to these women is shocking....	Slave: My True Story Best Price: $6.06 I wish I had blinking red lights and a siren beside of my Review of this book, to catch the eye...

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