AFRICA - a foreigner's addiction (in no particular order)

The list author says:
	"Brilliant and unique 'biography' of a whole continent - wonderful"

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	"slightly dated now, but still as relevant as ever"

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	"who on earth did we all think we were"

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	"very scary history of european involvement in Congo"

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	"a supplementary to the previous book - excellent  packed with insight and memorable images"

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	"and while we're on Congo, you can't avoid this book"

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	"historical novel covering the years after Uganda's independence"

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	"historical novel covering the Amin years (now a film, and i'm an extra in it - ha ha!)"

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	"chilling account of South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation hearings - made very personal and challenging by the profound affect they made on this Afrikaaner radio journalist"

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	"a life-changing book about the racism and fear that lay behind apartheid as well as the human souls"

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	"a brilliant mind and life in terrible circumstances"

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	"fair, extensive and challenging overview of all the horrors, indignities and sheer inhumanity in the Atlantic Slave Trade"

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	"Brink is a South African master - this is a weird almost dreamlike book that grips and  keeps you guessing all the way - the clash between  white and black Africa"

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	"Shocking, unsettling, disturbing, but all too real - a modern south African morality tale with no easy answers"

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	"i preferred this to Long Walk to Freedom (which i thought was still great) - a bit more objective, warts and all, and therefore made him all the more remarkable and credible"

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	"an extraordinary book about Dahomey, the African kingdom at the heart of the slave trade selling fellow Africans off to Europeans."

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	"a travelogue, but much more than that - Ukimwi is Swahili for AIDS - an account of the personal tragedies and (sometimes well-intentioned) foreign ineptitude"

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	"price is now total ripoff - get elsewhere if you can - diaries of one of the few British civil servants who stayed in Uganda throughout the Amin era & was actually the 1 to swear in Museveni in 1986"

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	"weep at the pain and agony, the dignity and grief"

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	"Daily Telegraph African correspondent who travelled all over - very interesting and insightful"

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	"a white boy growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - very evocative"

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	"a white girl growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - a  weird and difficult life beautifully described in childlike terms"

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	"pretty depressing, really - but opens eyes to some of what was going on when Congo's great hope, Lumumba, was assassinated, leading to Mobutu's installation as President by the CIA"

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	"not read this yet - but is on my list! Included here because everyone who knows about these things has told me to read it. Will update this!"

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	"moving and shocking - soon to be a film i hear (? with Nicole Kidman) - a biography of a beautiful English girl who so wanted to make a difference in the dangerous world of Civil War Sudan"