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Books Of Africa

The Original Rhodesiana Reprint Library Website Now called Books of Zimbabwe
In Australia: some of these titles are available in Perth from Zambezi Books 
In South Africa:
COVOS DAY Books also have a wide range on line.

The table contains works set in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and it's neighbours. See Africa General for other areas.
    Novels/Historical FictionNovels/Historical Fiction   Historical/Reference   Autobiographies       Africa General

There is Wilbur Smith and then there are the others. Can anyone else add to the list?
These titles should give you a wide cross section of information and be warned not all are friendly to Rhodesia. Some are novels, some historical fiction, some are non-fiction and some are hard to categorise.  I would be interested in knowing of any books written since Zimbabwe Independence by ex Combatants about the bush war.
Novels/Historical Fiction
Robert Early A Time of Madness ( Rhodesian bush war story ) 
Colin Ainsworth Sharp Birthright ( Rhodesian bush war  story )
Alan Scholefield Great Elephant
A View of Vultures
Hilda Richards Next Year
A False Dawn (The story of Dan Judson and the Mazoe Patrol)
Daniel Carney Under a Raging Sky  (Rhodesian Bush war story)  
The Wild  Geese
Whispering Death ????
Dick Gledhill One Commando  ( Novel based on Dick’s years in the RLI)
David Moreton The Hyena Run (Zimbabwe / Mozambique story)
Christopher Sherlock Hyena Dawn (Rhodesian Bush war story)
Giles Tippette The   Mercenaries (Rhodesian Bush war story)
Martin Booth Black Chameleon (Kenya)
Tom Keene Earthrace (Fictional country called Tasamunga)
A.J.Quinnel Black Horn (Hong Kong / Zimbabwe story)
Michael Hartmann Shadow of the Leopard (South Africa /Botswana story)
Game for Vultures
Leap for the Sun
Graham Hurley The Perfect  Soldier 1996 ( Angola / Zaire)
W.A. Ballinger Call it Rhodesia
John Gordon Davis Hold my Hand I'm Dying
John Lovett Contact
John Tagel Bolt from the Blue
Geoffrey Bond The Incredibles
Miles Hudson Triumph or Tragedy
James MacBruce When the Going was Rough
Jack Watson Conspire to Kill
William Spring The Long Fields
Colin Mitchell Africa Vortex
Paul Moorcraft A Short Thousand Years
Robin Moore Rhodesia
Major Mike as told to Robin Moore
Charles Samupindi, Pawns
Tom Wigglesworth Perhaps Tomorrow
Peter Rimmer Cry of the Fish Eagle
WilburSmith many novels featuring Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
Angus Shaw Kandeya-Another Time Another Place
Michael Charlton The Last Colony in Africa
Anthony Verrier. The Road to Zimbabwe
Alan's Thrush Of Land and Spirits
Paul Tingay The Emerald Run July   1979
Alexander McCall Smith The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 1997 (Botswana )
Bulawayo (collection of short stories )
Heavenly Date (story set in Bu
lawayo(story set in Bulawayolawayo 1957.)
Ivan Smith. Ivan is in Capetown at UCT in the Security Dept Come Break a Spear(Story of a PATU stick)
Historical/Reference
Squadron Leader N.V. Phillips. Collected and compiled by Bill Sykes Bush Horizons The Story of Aviation in Southern Rhodesia 1896-1940
Peter Godwin & Ian Hancock. Rhodesians Never Die (Studies the white tribe of  Rhodesia, warts and all.)
David Caute Under the Skin (The last couple of years of Rhodesia from an English reporter's viewpoint. It gives a painfully different perspective
Barbara Cole The Elite
Sabotage and Torture as told to Barbara Cole
Brigadier Skeen Prelude to Independence
Chris Cocks COVOS DAY Books Fireforce (Chris’ years in the RLI)
CYCLONE BLUES
Peter Stiff.   LTC. Ron Reid Daly Selous Scouts: Top Secret War
Peter Stiff?? See you in November
Graham Boynton ....Last Days in Cloud Cuckooland: Dispatches from White Africa
? Redfern? Blackfire (Freedom fighters stories 1960's Crocodile gang)
????? NEXT YEAR WILL BE BETTER ( See Next Year by Hilda Richards???)
Trevor Hemans Those Were The Days On Line book (Incidents and experiences in the life of a District Commissioner in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe during the 36 years between 1946 and 1981,)
Norma  Kriger Peasant VoicesNorma Kriger is interested in the extent to which ZANU guerillas were able to mobilize peasant support, the reasons why peasants participated, and the links between the postwar outcomes for peasants and the mobilization process.
Autobiographies

Ian Douglas Smith
The Great Betrayal
Ken Flower Serving Secretly
Joshua Nkomo The Story of My Life
Lardner Burke Rhodesia
Andre Dennison The War Diaries of Andre Dennison
Peter Godwin Mukiwa a White Boy in Africa (Peter's early life in Africa.)

Africa General
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
by Mark Mathabane, New American Library Trade, 1995

Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
by Karl Maier, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Inside the New Africa by Karl Maier, carries a powerful and surprising message about Africa: people at the grassroots throughout the continent are taking control of their lives and their destinies in inspirational ways, by forging a quiet revolution that holds immense promise for the future of the region.
Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires
by Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle

Into Africa is a marvelous exploration of Africa that will shatter any preconceptions readers may have. A compelling narrative describes the adventures and discoveries of a modern journey through African but it is equally a journey through Africa's past. The Africa that emerges is rich, exotic, complex and endlessly fascinating.
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
by Michael Maren, Free Press, 1997

A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities, such as CARE and Save the Children, who he claims does anything but. Maren also attacks the United Nation's "humanitarian" missions are controlled by agribusinesses and infighting bureaucrats.
My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe and His Conscience
by Rian Malan, Vintage Books, 1991

Critically acclaimed throughout America, My Traitor's Heart is an astonishing work of reportage, at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound--a book unlike any other about South Africa. Rian Malan, former crime reporter, searches for the truth behind apartheid, and finds it not in the way blacks and whites live, but in the way they die at one another's hands.

Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
by Malidoma Patrice Some, Penguin USA, 1995

One of the most astonishing and intimate accounts of spiritual transformation ever written, this is the true story of an African's shaman's initiation--a remarkable sharing of living African traditions, offered with compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of spirit.

Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent
by Blaine Harden, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1991

Blaine Harden's Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent is at once fascinating and sobering. A former Washington Post bureau chief in sub-Saharan Africa from 1985 to 1989, Harden grabs the reader with his vivid prose which weaves together a clear grasp of depressing and repressive African politics; eye-catching facts that plague the continent, diligently dug up; and tales of one character after another that together provide a sharp snapshot of Africa in the eighties.

Yorugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
by Marimba Ani, Africa World Press, 1994

This is a text that ought to be compulsory reading in African universities because one real problem with the way we deal with Europe and the white diaspora is that we have never really taken time off to study and understand the European collective consciousness. Marimba Ani is one of those writers who has. An exciting and well-researched text.
Recommended by: Mudasia Kadasia (kamu.stolav-vgs@mail.rogaland-f.kommune.no

From Africa Readings recommended by Philip Gourevitch at LOCAL COLOR: RECOMMENDED READING ON AFRICA

(Of course, most of the best novels, memoirs, and essays about Africa are written by Africans, and if you only have time to read one short and perfect novel, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart would be it (1994, paperback from Doubleday). Achebe's superb essay collection, Hopes and Impediments (1988, recent paperback frrom Heinemann) — which offers powerfully direct critiques of the blinders that afflict much European and American writing about Africa and includes Achebe's essential essay on Heart of Darkness — is equally indispensable.

Nigerian literature also boasts Amos Tutuola's wizardly novel The Palm Wine Drinkard (1953, recent paperback from Greenwood Press), and the work of playwright and novelist Wole Soyinka, whose memoir of his village boyhood during World War II, Ake: The Years of Childhood (1983, recent paperback from Random House) helped to win him the Nobel Prize.

In a more essayistic vein, the Ghanian philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House (1993, paperback from Oxford University Press) mixes memoir with meditation on the challenges of African identity amid the rapid transformations of the late 20th century.

South Africa adds to the mix of African literature the works of white writers whose only identity is African. Two plays by Athol Fugard, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island (1987, Theatre Company), are especially powerful. Fugard's journals, simply titled Notebooks (1990, paperback from Theatre Communications Group), also make for compelling reading.

Nadine Gordimer's July's People (1982, paperback from Viking Pen) is a novel among the Nobel laureate's very best, and the many powerful novels of James M. Coetzee include the astonishing Waiting for the Barbarians and The Life and Times of Michael K. (1982 and 1984 from Viking Pen).