Best Sellers in African History
-- Library Journal, 7/9/2009
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1) Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Prunier, Gerard
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195374207 [9780195374209]. $27.95
2) World War I: The African Front; An Imperial War on the African Continent
Paice, Edward
Pegasus Books
2008. ISBN 1933648902 [9781933648903]. $35
3) Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide
Prunier, Gerard
Cornell University Press
2008. ISBN 0801475031 [9780801475030]. $17.95
4) Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Mamdani, Mahmood
Pantheon
2009. ISBN 0307377237 [9780307377234]. $26.95
5) Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
Crais, Clifton C.
Princeton University Press
2009. ISBN 0691135800 [9780691135809]. $29.95
6) South Africa in World History
Berger, Iris
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195157540 [9780195157543]. $60
7) Burundi: Biography of a Small African Country
Watt, Nigel
Columbia University Press
2008. ISBN 0231700903 [9780231700900]. $50
8) House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Cooper, Helene
Simon & Schuster
2008. ISBN 0743266242 [9780743266246]. $25
9) History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present
Reid, Richard J.
Wiley Blackwell
2009. ISBN 1405132647 [9781405132640]. $89.95
10) Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa
Price, Richard
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 0521889685 [9780521889681]. $99
11) Africa’s ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939
Derrick, Jonathan
Columbia University Press
2008. ISBN 0231700563 [9780231700566]. $45
12) Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda
Fujii, Lee Ann
Cornell University Press
2009. ISBN 0801447054 [9780801447051]. $29.95
13) This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson
HarperCollins
2009. ISBN 0061353477 [9780061353475]. $26.99
14) African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
Baronov, David
Temple University Press
2008. ISBN 1592139159 [9781592139156]. $54.50
15) Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa
Lemarchand, Rene
University of Pennsylvania Press
2009. ISBN 0812241207 [9780812241204]. $59.95
16) Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance
Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
Basic Books
2009. ISBN 0465009468 [9780465009466]. $25
17) Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Dowden, Richard
Public Affairs
2009. ISBN 1586487531 [9781586487539]. $29.95
18) Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History, Society
Lewis, I.M.
Columbia University Press
2008. ISBN 0231700849 [9780231700849]. $45
19) Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Fields-Black, Edda L.
Indiana University Press
2008. ISBN 0253352193 [9780253352194]. $34.95
20) Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change
McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston
Indiana University Press
2009. ISBN 0253352797 [9780253352798]. $65
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