Interesting Books about Africa

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If you are interested in the real Africa, her people, nature, history and any other information, do a bit of research into the manifest, diaries and writings of the "old African travelers and explorers". 

These people write down what they see and experienced, with little or no political agenda, and these observations contain the uniqueness of un-bias African knowledge.

I have met a few interesting people in my life, ranging from Head of States, famous actors and actresses, Royalty, and then the odd world criminal, even a terrorist or two! But none made such a impression as when I met "Madiba" (Nelson Mandela), the only true African statesman, a hero of mine. There-for his book is included.

 
 Long Walk to Freedom : The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela

Vanishing Cultures of South Africa : Changing Customs in a Changing World
ASIN/0847820971
by Peter Magubane

Climbing Kilimanjaro: An African Odyssey
ASIN/0961527749
by Helen J. Bergan 

Serengeti : Natural Order on the African Plain
ASIN/0877014418
by Mitsuaki Iwago 

African Calliope : A Journey to the Sudan
ASIN/1558213708
by Edward Hoagland 

Facing the Congo 
ASIN/1886913447
by Jeffrey Tayler 

The Healing Wisdom of Africa : Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community 
ASIN/087477991X
by Malidoma Patrice Some, L. M. Some 

Malamala : Pathway to an African Eden
ASIN/0966225716
by Amanda Lumry (Photographer), Jamie Thom (Photographer) 

I Dreamed of Africa 
ASIN/0140287442
by Kuki Gallmann 

Ethnological

The Banyankole: the second part of the report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa [and], The Bagesu, and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: the third part of the report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa
ASIN/0576592552
by John Roscoe 

Ethnology of A-Kamba and other East African tribes
ASIN/0714616788
by C. W. Hobley 

Ten years north of the Orange River; a story of everyday life and work among the South African tribes, from 1859-1869 ASIN/0714618756
by John Mackenzie 

Wild Bush Tribes of Tropical Africa
ASIN/0837120292
by G. Cyril Claridge

Akan ethics : a study of the moral ideas and the moral behaviour of the Akan tribes of Ghana
ASIN/9964301235
by C. A. Ackah

The history of the Wangoni and their origin in the South African Bantu tribes 
ASIN/9976670249
by Elzear Ebner

Schism and Continuity in an African Society : A Study of Ndembu Village Life (Classic Reprints in Anthropology)  ASIN/1859731104
by Victor Witter Turner 

The Mande Blacksmiths : Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa (Traditional Arts of Africa) 
ASIN/0253207983
by Patrick R. McNaughton 

Being Maasai : Ethnicity & Identity in East Afri Ca (Eastern African Studies)
ASIN/0821410458
by Thomas Spear (Editor)