Books like Gaddafi’s Harem

#1

Emma’s War A True Story

Deborah Scroggins

Themes: North • Africa • Political

#2

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

Themes: North • Africa • Political

#3

Guns, Culture and Moors Racial Perceptions, Cultural Impact and the Moroccan Participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Ali Al Tuma

Themes: North • Africa • Political

#4

Sandstorm

Laurence Gough

Themes: North • Africa • Political

#5

Black Boy (American Hunger) : a Record of Childhood and Youth

Richard Wright

Themes: North • Africa • Social Science

#6

Slave My True Story

Mende Nazer

Themes: North • Africa • Social Science

#7

The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt Their Lives and Afterlives

Aidan Dodson

Themes: North • Africa • Social Science

#8

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

Benjamin Ajak

Themes: North • Africa • Social Science

#9

The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson

Ólafur Egilsson

Themes: North • Africa • Social Science

#10

Midlands

Jonny Steinberg

Themes: Criminology • Africa • Social Science

#11

Anansi’s Gold The Man who Swindled the World

Yepoka Yeebo

Themes: Criminology • Africa • Social Science

#12

Chasing Black Gold The Incredible True Story of a Fuel Smuggler in Africa

Robert Stone

Themes: Criminology • Africa • Social Science

#13

First President A Life of John Dube, Founding President of the ANC

Heather Hughes

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#14

Scoundrel The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom

Sarah Weinman

Themes: Criminology • Political • Social Science

#15

No Easy Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#16

Rumba Rules The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire

Bob W. White

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#17

Operation Rollback America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Grose

Themes: Criminology • Political • Social Science

#18

Mighty Be Our Powers How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Leymah Gbowee

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#19

World History Biographies: Mandela The Hero Who Led His Nation to Freedom

Ann Kramer

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#20

Always Another Country A Memoir of Exile and Home

Sisonke Msimang

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#21

This is what America Looks Like My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Ilhan Omar

Themes: Africa • Political • Social Science

#22

Scoundrel How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Sarah Weinman

Themes: Criminology • Political • Social Science

#23

Among the Bros A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall (Journalist)

Themes: Criminology • Political • Social Science

#24

One of Us The Story of a Massacre and Its Aftermath — Åsne Seierstad

Asne Seierstad

Themes: Criminology • Political • Social Science