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AfricaFocus Notes

AfricaFocus Notes, edited by William Minter, features high-quality analysis and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, with particular attention to priority global issues affecting the entire continent. This shop also lists (at the bottom) mystery novels and thrillers read and recommended before 2023. For mystery novels and thrillers recommended in 2023 and after see https://bookshop.org/shop/mysteryplaces.

Best Nonfiction Read and Recommended in 2025
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Trump's Return
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics
Between the World and Me
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
Joan Wicken: A Lifelong Collaboration with Mwalimu Nyerere
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Best Nonfiction Read and Recommended in 2024
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Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
The Squad: Aoc and the Hope of a Political Revolution
People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation's Capital
African Americans and Africa: A New History
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity
Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe
Native American History of Washington, DC
Upscaling Downtown
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Ten Highly Recommended Books on African & Global Issues
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
Africa's Odious Debts
Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt (2019)
Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the Us Border Around the World
Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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Third Reconstruction
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
Toward Racial Justice and a Third Reconstruction
Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
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Understanding Global Apartheid
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Militarized Global Apartheid
Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump
Reconsidering Reparations
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations
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Reading Africa and World History
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Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE
Origin Africa: A Natural History
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
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Recommended Books on the History of Race in the Deep South
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Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
The Children
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
"Troublemaker" Memories of the Freedom Movement
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
In Struggle: Sncc and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey
The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past a Memoir
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From the Congo to the Mississippi
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From the Congo to Capitol Hill: A Coming-of-Age Memoir
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of his Congo Rule
Congo: The Epic History of a People
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo
Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
William Sheppard: Congo's African American Livingstone
Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II
Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History
Patrice Lumumba
The Assassination of Lumumba
Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
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Somali Diaspora: Maine, Minnesota, and Around the World
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The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away
Somalis Abroad: Clan and Everyday Life in Finland
From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis
Cosmopolitan Refugees: Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict
We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
Breaking Barriers: Ilhan Omar's Political Odyssey
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
Somalis in the Twin Cities and Columbus: Immigrant Incorporation in New Destinations
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Somali boy growing up in Minnesota: Family, Schooling and Identity
Somalis in Minnesota
Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together
Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
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New Books on African Countries I Have Read or Would Like to Read
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From the Congo to Capitol Hill: A Coming-of-Age Memoir
Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone
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