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Afric-lit: An Afro-centric non-fiction reading list

I was recently asked to make a list of books on Africa. When I asked if it was to be a list of fiction or non-fiction, the response was “both.” But, for space and time’s sake, here’s a not-by-any-means comprehensive

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Safari njema – Zanzibar

“All news out of Africa is bad. It made me want to go there, though not for the horror, the hot-spots, the massacre-and-earthquake stories you read in the newspaper; I wanted the pleasure of being in Africa again. Feeling that

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