Articles/Periodical/Website
- AFRICOM Command Brief (UNCLASS) 48J_AFRICOM_Command_Brief
– The ChinAfrica Project https://chinaafricaproject.com
– Presence Africaine https://www.presenceafricaine.com
- Bissell, Joanthan. Barriers to Democracy in Sierra Leone
Books
- Achebe, Richard. Africa: Altered States Ordinary Miracles
– Berkeley, Bill. The graves are not yet full
– Bleck, Jaimie. Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990
– Brautigam, Deborah. The Dragon’s Gift
– Butcher, Tim. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
– Campbell, John. Nigeria and the Nation State
– Carmody, Padriag. The New Scramble for Africa
– Cheeseman, Nic. Institutions and Democracy in Africa
– Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion; Wars, Guns, and Votes
- Davidson, Basil. Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State
– Devlin, Larry. Chief of Station, Congo
– Dwyer, Maggie. Soldiers in Revolt
– French, Howard. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa; China’s Second Continent
– Fuller, Alexandra. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
– Godwin, Peter. The Fear
- Green, Toby. Meeting the Invisible Man
– Guéhenno, Jean-Marie. The Fog of Peace
– Harley, Aidan. The Zanzibar Chest
– Herbst. States and Power in Africa
– Hillman, Jonathan. The Emperors New Road
– Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost
– Iftin, Abdi Nor. Call Me American
– Kaplan, Robert. Surrender or Starve
– Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible
- Larteguy, Jean. The Centurions
– Lohmeier, Matthew. Irresistible Revolution
- Lumley, E.K. Forgotten Mandate: A British District Officer in Tanganyika
– Mamdani, Mahmood. Citizen and Subject
– Meredith, Martin. Fate of Africa; The State of Africa
– Missamou, Tchicaya. In the Shadow of Freedom
– Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the River
– Nathan, Noah. Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition
– Nkrumah, Kwame. Neo Colonialism, the last stage of imperialism
– Roesseler, Philip. Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
– Singh, Naunihal. Seizing Power
– Sundaram, Anjan. Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo
– Theroux, Paul. Dark Star Safari; The Last Train to Zona Verde
– Williams, Paul. Fighting for Peace in Somalia
– Wrong, Michela. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz; It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
– Yun, Sun. Africa in China’s Foreign Policy
One of the best sources for reading list for FAOs for Africa is the For (un)Official Use Only blog hosted by a Navy FAO: https://fuuo.blogspot.com/p/after-looking-at-my-reading-lists-from.html.
The following list comes from the sources mentioned above with some others blended in
Africa is a Country: https://africasacountry.com
Africa for Beginners/Primers
The Shackled Continent, Robert Guest
Africa Works: Disorder as a Political Instrument, Chabal & Daloz
The Africans, David Lamb
Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham
Out of America, Keith Richburg
Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State, Basil Davidson
The Fate of Africa, Martin Meredith
Africa: A Biography of a Continent, John Reader
Africa Unchained, George Ayittey
Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux
Africa’s Armies: From Honor to Infamy, by Robert B. Edgerton
Ambiguous Order: Military Forces in African States, by Herbert M. Howe
Development in Africa
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity, Michael Maren
Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business, Graham Hancock
HIV/AIDS
The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, Bill Hamilton
Terrorism
Red Sea Terror Triangle: Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Islamic Terror, Shaul Shay
Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, Douglas Farah
Sudan
The Triumph of the Sun, Wilbur Smith
Emma’s War, Deborah Scroggins
Hunting the Jackal, Billy Waugh
The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars, Douglas Hamilton Johnson
A Call for Democracy in Sudan, John Garang
A History of Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day, P. M. Holt
Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict, and Catastrophe, Donald Petterson
A Strategic Assessment of Sudan, 2000 Edition, The Sudan Research Group
Khartoum 1885: General Gordon’s Last Stand, Don Featherstone
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Gerard Prunier
Central Africa
King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild
The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa, Bill Berkley
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Philip Gourevitch
Shake Hands With the Devil, Romeo Dallaire
Sowing the Mustard Seed, Yoweri K. Museveni
Across the Red River, Christian Jennings
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo, Michela Wrong
A Bend in the River, V S. Naipaul
Facing the Congo, by Jeffrey Taylor
East Africa/The Horn
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea, Robert D. Kaplan
Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda, Scott Peterson
The Zanzibar Chest, Aidan Hartley
Abyssinian Chronicles, Moses Isegawa
The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead
The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead
Revolution in Zanzibar, by Don Petterson
Forgotten Mandate: A British District Officer in Tanganyika, by E.K. Lumley
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham
Southern Africa
Washing of the Spears, Donald R. Morris
Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War, Dan Wylie
Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane
The Bang-Bang Club, Greg Marinovich
Boer War, Thomas Pakenham
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, Peter Godwin
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, William Finnegan
Bloodsong! James Hooper
West Africa
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity, Peter Schwab
Blood Diamond, Greg Campbell
War Dog: Fighting Other People’s Wars, The Modern Mercenary in Combat, Al J. Venter
How De Body? One Man’s Terrifying Journey Through an African War, Teun Voeten
The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War, Stephen Ellis
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert, William Langewiesche
Meeting the Invisible Man, by Toby Green
Suggested by Academia:
The Undulating Capacity of the State: Autochthony and Infrastructure Development in African Cities
By Kwamena Ato Onoma
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Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra
Laurian R. Bowles
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The Homeowner Ideology: Economic (F)Utility of real property rights in four African cities
By Singumbe Muyeba
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By Ambe J. Njoh
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By Rita Kesserling
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The Making of an African City: How Harare Grew over Centuries
By Davison Muchadenyika
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Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition
By Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, and Edgar Pieterse
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No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi
By Bettina Ng’weno
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Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya’s Port City
By Devin Smart
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Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds
By Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji
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Urban Saniscapes: Slums, Housing, and Everyday Sanitation in Accra and Nairobi, 1908-1963
By Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim
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The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City
By Tanya Zack
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No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa
By Dineo Skosana
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The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats
By Blessing-Miles Tendi
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Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
By Aneeth Kaur Hundle
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Deliberating Ghana: Postcolonial Rhetorics, Culture, and Democracy
By Stephen Kwame Dadugblor
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Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-Righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana
By Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
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Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development
By Reginold A. Royston
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Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria
By Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams
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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
By Howard W. French
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Death, Diversion, and Departure: Voter Exit and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Zimbabwe
By Chipo Dendere
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By Gillian Mathys
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The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship
By Natalie Wenzell Letsa
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Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
By Mahmood Mamdani
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Securitizing the Sahel: Analysing External Interventions and their Consequences
By Nina Wilén
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Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War
By Nana Osei-Opare
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The Geopolitics of Fear: From Security to Solidarity at Europe’s Racial Borders
By Berna Turam
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Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa
By Kate Baldwin
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Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders
By Aili Mari Tripp
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When Rebels Win: Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power after Civil Wars
By Kai M. Thaler
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