Here’s a few of the books I’ve enjoyed reading on Africa:

The Fate of Sudan: The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process by John Young

The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars by Douglas H. Johnson

Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan: Essays on the Sudan, Southern Sudan and Darfur, 1962 – 2004 by Robert O. Collins

We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo by Michaela Wrong

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak with Judy Bernstein

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo A. Dallaire

It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower by Michaela Wrong

The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts

Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Larry Devlin

The Translator by Daoud Hari

Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State by Richard Crockett

Darfur: A New History of a Long War by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal

Sudan: Race, Religion, and Violence by Jok Madut Jok

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo

Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson

A History of Modern Sudan by Robert O. Collins

Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa’s Deadliest War by Ben Rawlence

And here’s what’s on my reading list. Suggestions are welcome!

China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. French

Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria’s Military Coup Culture 1966-1976 by Max Siollun

Soldiers of Fortune: A History of Nigeria (1983-1993) by Max Siollun

Africa’s New Oil: Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes by Celeste Hicks

The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan by Luke Patey

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis

Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper

War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan by Francis M. Deng

The Sudan: Contested National Identities by Ann Mosely Lesch

The Congo Cables: The Cold War in Africa–From Eisenhower to Kennedy by Madeline Kalb

Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda by Mahmood Mamdani

Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide by Linda Melvern

The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerard Prunier

The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham

 I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong

The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte