AFRICOM reading list

(source) Maintaining up-to-date information and deep knowledge about Africa is critical to the team at the U.S. Africa Command. To that end, a reading list was compiled to provide suggestions. Thanks to the AFRICOM Research Library for providing us with this list.

This revision was published March 2012.

Overview of Africa

Book cover for France's Relationship with Subsaharan Africa

Book cover for Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience - The Concise Desk Reference

Book cover for Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa

Book cover for Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument

Book cover for The Black Man's Burden Africa and The Curse of the Nation-State

Book cover for The Search for Africa: History, Culture, Politics

Book cover for The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives

Book cover for The Africans

Book cover for Beyond Humanitarianism: What You Need to Know About Africa and Why It Matters

Book cover for The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

Book cover for Cultural Atlas of Africa

Book cover for Africa since 1800

Book cover for A Short History of Africa

Book cover for Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Book cover for The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

Book cover for Africa: A Biography of the Continent

Book cover for Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa

Book cover for Into Africa: Intercultural Insights

Book cover for How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Book cover for United States Foreign Policy toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis and Change

Book cover for Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure

Book cover for Government and Politics in Africa

Political/Military

Book cover for Africa in Chaos: A Comparative History

Book cover for Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism

Book cover for African Guerrillas: Raging Against the Machine

Book cover for Kalashnikov Culture: Small Arms Proliferation and Irregular Warfare

Book cover for Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa

Book cover for Free At Last?: U.S. Policy Toward Africa and the End of the Cold War

Book cover for Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

Book cover for Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa

Book cover for Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy--A History from 1791 to the Present

Book cover for Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil

Book cover for The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Book cover for Livingstone

Book cover for The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

Book cover for More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa

Book cover for Victory On The Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon

Book cover for The Policy Factor: Agricultural Performance in Kenya and Tanzania

Development in Africa

Book cover for Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future

Book cover for The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

Book cover for The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Book cover for The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Book cover for The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business

Book cover for The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity

Book cover for The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

HIV/AIDS

Book cover for The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS

Terrorism

Book cover for Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror

Book cover for The Red Sea Terror Triangle: Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Islamic Terror

Northern Africa

Book cover for Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges

Book cover for Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

Central Africa

Book cover for The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of America

Book cover for Heart of Darkness

Book cover for Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Book cover for Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda

Book cover for We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Book cover for King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Book cover for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

Book cover for Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness

Book cover for The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

Book cover for All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo

Book cover for Sowing the Mustard Seed: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda

Book cover for A Bend in the River

Book cover for The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

Book cover for The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide

Book cover for In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

East Africa / The Horn

Book cover for Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution With a New Afterword on the Postwar Transiton

Book cover for The Zanzibar Chest

Book cover for Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel

Book cover for Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea

Book cover for A History of Ethiopia

Book cover for Battle for the Bundu: The First World War in East Africa

Book cover for Ethiopia, the Unknown Land: A Cultural and Historical Guide

Book cover for Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda

Book cover for I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

Sudan

Book cover for The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience

Book cover for God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir

Book cover for They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

Book cover for Khartoum 1885: General Gordon's last stand

Book cover for Darfur: A New History of a Long War

Book cover for A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day

Book cover for The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Peace or Truce

Book cover for Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide

Book cover for Emma's War

Book cover for Triumph of the Sun

Southern Africa

Book cover for Selous Scouts: Top secret war

Book cover for A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

Book cover for Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

Book cover for Thabo Mbeki & The Battle for the Soul of the ANC

Book cover for Bloodsong!: An Account of Executive Outcomes in Angola

Book cover for Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Book cover for The Bang-Bang Club, movie tie-in: Snapshots From a Hidden War

Book cover for Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Book cover for Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

Book cover for Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation

Book cover for The Boer War

Book cover for Cry, the Beloved Country

Book cover for Mandela: The Authorized Biography

Book cover for The Mind Of South Africa

Book cover for Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War

West Africa

Book cover for Things Fall Apart

Book cover for A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Book cover for In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa

Book cover for French Lessons in Africa: Travels with My Briefcase Through French Africa

Book cover for Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones

Book cover for West Africa before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850

Book cover for The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast

Book cover for The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War

Book cover for Travels in West Africa

Book cover for Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert

Book cover for Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity

Book cover for WAR DOG: Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat

Book cover for How de Body? One Man's Terrifying Journey Through an African War

Book cover for Liberia: The Heart of Darkness

Travel

Book cover for The Beginning: Collision, Ghana, 1958

Book cover for Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness

Book cover for Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Middle East/Religion

Book cover for The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an

Book cover for African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters Between Sufis and Islamists

Book cover for A History of the Arab Peoples

Book cover for A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present

Book cover for Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law Umdat Al-Salik

Book cover for History Of Islam In Africa

Book cover for The Arabs in History

Book cover for The Future of Christianity

Book cover for Milestones

Book cover for Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa

Book cover for A History of the Church in Africa

Book cover for History of Christianity in Africa in the Context of African. an Assessment

Book cover for The Koran