Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
By: Paul Kenyon
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i…
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1. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
By: Jason K. Stearns
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations… read more
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- politics
- war
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"As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the grea…"-Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
2. The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
By: Martin Meredith
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically in the fifty years since the independence era beg… read more
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3. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
By: Tom Burgis
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more
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4. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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5. The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
By: Thomas Pakenham
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. The Shadow of the Sun
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule… read more
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7. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
By: Paul Collier
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty … read more
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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- economics
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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11. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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12. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
13. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- nonfiction
14. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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15. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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16. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
By: Michela Wrong
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do … read more
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17. How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
By: Frank Dikötter
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling explora… read more
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18. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
By: Paul Kenyon
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more
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- economics
- libya
19. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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20. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
By: Peter Apps
4.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The truth about Grenfell at long last. It is hardly possible to admit it. That the biggest tower bl… read more
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21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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