Best African History Books — Community Picks

Discover the top African History books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 16 books in this genre.

• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
• A Tale of Three Lions by H. Rider Haggard
• The heart of a woman by Maya Angelou
• Girls at War and other stories by Chinua Achebe
• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
• Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright
• How the leopard got his claws by Chinua Achebe
• There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe
• African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe
• Contemporary African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe
• Dreams in a Time of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
• In the house of the interpreter by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo