We hope you enjoyed our Top Africa Stories of the Year 2025. Next week we will share some exciting books about urban Africa from last year. But first, here are some of our favorite books from 2025:
No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa
By Dineo Skosana
The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats
By Blessing-Miles Tendi
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
By Aneeth Kaur Hundle
Deliberating Ghana: Postcolonial Rhetorics, Culture, and Democracy
By Stephen Kwame Dadugblor
Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-Righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana
By Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development
By Reginold A. Royston
Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria
By Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
By Howard W. French
Death, Diversion, and Departure: Voter Exit and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Zimbabwe
By Chipo Dendere
By Gillian Mathys
The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship
By Natalie Wenzell Letsa
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
By Mahmood Mamdani
Securitizing the Sahel: Analysing External Interventions and their Consequences
By Nina Wilén
Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War
By Nana Osei-Opare
The Geopolitics of Fear: From Security to Solidarity at Europe’s Racial Borders
By Berna Turam
Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa
By Kate Baldwin
Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders
By Aili Mari Tripp
When Rebels Win: Ideology, Statebuilding, and Power after Civil Wars
By Kai M. Thaler
Thanks for this list! I read a couple from the list in 2025 and appreciate you sharing again as a lot of these won't be mainstream.
Thanks, Jeffrey :-)