Macmillan :: Top Sellers Books For Adults: History Africa Books

Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First-Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children and Teens Palgrave Scholarly and Reference
  
  All Categories
  
  Advertising Age Series American Academy of Religion 2011 Conference Biography and Memoir Books Halloween Books International Peace Day Recommended Reading for Second Grade
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas Distributed Publishers
  Macmillan Higher Education Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners Macmillan Kids
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs Macmillan Speakers

All Categories>History>Africa>Top Sellers

Africa

History- Africa Books, African Studies Books, Algeria Books, Angola Books, Benin Books, Botswana Books, Central Africa Books, Comoros Books, Democratic Republic of Congo Books, Djibouti Books, East Africa Books, Egypt Books, Equatorial Guinea Books, Eritrea Books, Ethiopia Books, Gabon Books, Gambia Books, General Africa Books, Ghana Books, Guinea Books, Guinea Bissau Books, Ivory Coast Books, Kenya Books, Lesotho Books, Liberia Books, Libya Books, Madagascar Books, Malawi Books, Mali Books, Mauritania Books, Morocco Books, Mozambique Books, Namibia Books, Niger Books, Nigeria Books, North Africa Books, Rwanda Books, Sao Tome and Principe Books, Senegal Books, Sierra Leone Books, Somalia Books, South Africa Books, Southern Africa Books, Sudan Books, Swaziland Books, Tanzania Books, Togo Books, Tunisia Books, Uganda Books, West Africa Books, Western Sahara Books, Zambia Books, Zimbabwe Books

Sort by

Title Author

Top Sellers

Displaying 1-20 of 20

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch Picador

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Winner
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction
PEN Literary Award - Winner - First Nonfiction

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$18.00 Buy

Imperial Reckoning

The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins Holt Paperbacks

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Nonfiction

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

Machete Season

The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated by Linda Coverdale; Preface by Susan Sontag Picador

During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war....

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$18.00 Buy

Imperial Reckoning

The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins Holt Paperbacks

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Nonfiction

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

Casting with a Fragile Thread

A Story of Sisters and Africa

Wendy Kann Picador

One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Bonus

Readers Guides

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

The Antelope's Strategy

Living in Rwanda After the Genocide

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Picador

The third book on the Hatzfeld’s definitive study of the Rwandan genocide: the first-hand accounts of Hutus and Tutsis forced to live side-by-side and get...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

The Heartless Stone

A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

Tom Zoellner Picador

An American Library Association Notable Book When he proposed to his girlfriend, Tom Zoellner gave what is expected of every American man--a diamond...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$17.00 Buy

The Invisible Cure

Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

Helen Epstein Picador

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$14.00 Buy

Lose Your Mother

A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch Picador

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Winner
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction
PEN Literary Award - Winner - First Nonfiction

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

Machete Season

The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated by Linda Coverdale; Preface by Susan Sontag Picador

During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war....

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$18.00 Buy

Imperial Reckoning

The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins Holt Paperbacks

A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Nonfiction

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

Casting with a Fragile Thread

A Story of Sisters and Africa

Wendy Kann Picador

One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Bonus

Readers Guides

Trade Paperback :
$15.99 Buy

More Than Just a Game

Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told

Chuck Korr and Marvin Close St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer In the...

More Formats: eBook

Trade Paperback :
$14.00 Buy

Lose Your Mother

A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

The Antelope's Strategy

Living in Rwanda After the Genocide

Jean Hatzfeld; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Picador

The third book on the Hatzfeld’s definitive study of the Rwandan genocide: the first-hand accounts of Hutus and Tutsis forced to live side-by-side and get...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$17.00 Buy

The Invisible Cure

Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

Helen Epstein Picador

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

The Heartless Stone

A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

Tom Zoellner Picador

An American Library Association Notable Book When he proposed to his girlfriend, Tom Zoellner gave what is expected of every American man--a diamond...

More Formats: eBook

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback :
$18.95 Buy

Poisoned Wells

The Dirty Politics of African Oil

Nicholas Shaxson Palgrave Macmillan

Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars’ worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the...

More Formats: eBook

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	Designing West Africa Prelude to 21st Century Calamity Peter Schwab Palgrave Macmillan A noted authority makes a provocative argument that the fate of the African continent was decided in its first decade of independence

Displaying 1-20 of 20