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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Countries: Algeria<>more North Africa<>Angola|South Africa|Zimbabwe<>more Southern Africa
Congo (Kinshasa)<>more Central Africa<>Kenya|Somalia|Sudan<>more East Africa
Liberia|Nigerian Novels|Nigeria & Oil<>more West Africa
Topics: Africa Economy|AIDS in Africa|AIDS & Blacks in the Americas|Malaria|Prison Memoirs

Featured Book 'We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutual shaping. Rich in theoretical innovation and empirical substantiation, it brings together reflections on developments around the mobile phone by scholars of six African countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Sudan and Tanzania).

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