I selected the ten books on this Ferris wheel among Africa bestsellers at Amazon.com. For Amazon's latest Africa list, updated hourly, click here

This set includes a few classic books I highly recommend, as well as a few on my "to read sometime" list. And, just for variety, a CD of songs by Oliver Mtukudzi.

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Featured Book The House at Sugar Beach is an astonishing and moving memoir about growing up in Liberia during a violent civil war. Helene Cooper is the daughter of one of Liberia's elite families, but after a coup threw her people out of power she moved to the United States, eventually becoming a journalist. In The House at Sugar Beach, Cooper delivers personal memoir, historical perspective, and journalistic reporting in one book that you won't be able to put down. - About.com Cooper, a reporter with the New York Times had been on assignment embedded with U.S. soldiers in Iraq when her military vehicle was in a terrifying accident. Lying in the Iraqi desert amidst the wreckage of her Humvee, Cooper had the realization: "I shouldn’t die here—If I’m going to die in a war, it should be in my own country." more Liberia books

The books above on Zimbabwe are ones I have selected. I haven't read most of them, but I have read the reviews and know many of the authors by reputation. The books below are those books on Zimbabwe currently bestselling on Amazon UK. Some are the same but the second list also has a fair number of books reflecting white settler perspectives. — Editor