18 books to read from 2024
Check out these exciting books about Africa
We hope you enjoyed our Top Africa Stories of the Year 2024, as well as our 11 books about urban Africa from 2024. Here are some of our favorite books from 2024:
Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850-1960
By Patrick William Otim
Party Politics and Populism in Zambia: Michael Sata and Political Change, 1955–2014
By Sishuwa Sishuwa
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
By Max Gallien
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design
By Catherine Boone
The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young
Edited by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp
Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment
By Rogers Orock and Peter Geschiere
By Michaela Collord
The Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion
Dotun Ayobade
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
By Bronwen Everill
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance
By Tom Lavers
Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India
By Aditi Malik
Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
By Daniel Magaziner
Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
By Samuel Fury Childs Daly
By Amanda Lea Robinson
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana
By Ellie Gore
Power, Patronage and International Norms: A Grand Masquerade
By Valerie Freeland
Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa: Everyday Production of Democratic Legitimacy
By Nicholas Kerr
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, The United States, and the War on Terror
By Samar Al-Bulushi
