Search Results for ‘Africa’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Biographies’ - 12 matches found

Stealing Water

“Stealing Water” tells the tale of author Tim Ecott’s childhood in apartheid Johannesburg in the 1970s; a captivating and, given the situation, surprisingly funny account of an Irish emigré family finding...

Stanley

SIGNED COPIES! Henry Morton Stanley is arguably Britain’s greatest land explorer of all time. His character though, is held in an entirely different regard - today he is remembered as a cruel imperialist...

Long Walk to Freedom

The memoirs of an outstanding moral and political leader. This autobiography re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape his life. A compelling read.

A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“A Long Way Gone” tells how, at the age of 12 years old, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in his home country of Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognisable by violence. At 13, he was...

The African Dream

In 1964 amid worldwide conjecture, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, hero of the Cuban Revolution, mysteriously left Cuba, where he was a minister in Fidel Castro's government, and surfaced incognito in the heart...

Too Close to the Sun

Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. He was 6 foot 3 inches tall, and once lifted a car out of a ditch unaided...

Mukiwa - A White Boy In Africa

Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, he became a conscript...

An Imperfect Offering

In "An Imperfect Offering", James Orbinski tells his own extraordinary story of being a doctor, but also discusses the nature of humanitarian action today and our responsibilities as citizens of the...

Rainbow's End

“Rainbow’s End” is a deeply affecting memoir of life in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe in the 1970s and 1980s, evoking the author's coming of age alongside the final, brutal years of civil war and the country...

Dinner With Mugabe

“Dinner With Mugabe” is a penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe, a psychobiography of a man whose once-brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast what some would say is shame on the African...

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic “Ake: The Years of Childhood” with an...

Apricots On The Nile - A Memoir with Recipes

Colette Rossant’s “Apricots on the Nile begins in 1937, when at just five years old Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother.
When her father...