Amazon.co.uk: Best books on contemporary Africa

Best books on contemporary Africa
A Listmania! list by Tom (Angola)

1. The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley

The list author says:
	"The experiences of a Reuter's correspondent expressed with clarity and candour uncluttered by political agenda."

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2. Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption (Picador Books) by Andrew Buckoke

The list author says:
	"The experiences of another respected correspondent ably illustrating the simultaneous love and frustration many of us feel when working in Africa."

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3. Banana Sunday : Datelines From Africa by Chris Munnion

The list author says:
	"A candid, necessarily sometimes bleak, more often humorous account from another 'Old Hand'. Chris Munnion is a very experienced and highly respected correspondent."

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4. Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent: Despatches from a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden

The list author says:
	"You should read this to undertsand how things sometimes go swimmingly and other times, disastrously wrong. Controversial, but Blaine Harden's perspective is valid."

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5. The Scramble For Africa by Thomas Pakenham

The list author says:
	"Historical, not contemporary but a must read. Merits re-reading a couple of times."

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6. Angola: Promises and Lies by Karl Maier

The list author says:
	"An account of an ignored rather than forgotten war. Illustrates the difficulties faced by the UN when intervening in regional conflicts (naivety and arrogance as well!). Well written, easy to read."

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7. Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh

The list author says:
	"Written in 1938 but as valid today as it was then. It isn't racist, it is a satirical view of ignorance and prejudice presented with humour. It pokes fun at the establishment."

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8. The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith

The list author says:
	"Straight from the hip. Read this but bear in mind the extent of foreign post colonial intervention and the support this gave to corrupt regimes and practices."

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9. The Wonga Coup: Simon Mann's Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa by Adam Roberts

The list author says:
	"The plan was fine. Loose security and a failure to take into account strategic interests (West african Oil) doomed the operation. They were shopped, basically."

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10. French Lessons In Africa: Travels with my Briefcase through French Africa by Peter Biddlecombe

The list author says:
	"Recollections of business travel in Francophone Africa."

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11. An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer

The list author says:
	"Quote from 'A Reader': 'A must read which has none of the dryness or self-congratulation which is so often present in auto-biographies'."

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