The most popular Africa books of 2026

The Days

Taha Hussein

Platteland Revisited

Roger Ballen

Kruger's War

Chris Ash

Of Renegades, Romantics and Rabble-Rousers

Max du Preez

Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt Mourning Rites in the Pharaonic Period

Maria Rosa Valdesogo

Lighting the Torch The Tunisian Campaign and Forging an Allied Way of War 1942-43

Sam Wallace

Kwame Nkrumah Warrior King

Nancy Loewen

Current Issues in Northern Africa

Arda Özkan, Pinar Yürür, Levent Kirval

Neptune Frost

Steven Shaviro

Call of the Dragon

Natasha Bowen

World Cup Fever A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments

Simon Kuper

Decolonising Research

Kadesh 1274 BC Egypt Attempts to Take Syria

Anthony Spalinger

First Encyclopedia of History

Fiona Chandler

Floating Power

Gökçe Günel

Counterstreams in Migration Ethiopians' Choices to Stay, Leave, Or Return

Hewan Girma

Seeking Sexual Freedom African Rites, Rituals, and Sankofa in the Bedroom

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Documentary Objectives Filming Africa from Colonialism to Independence

Rachel Gabara

Ten Days That Shook My World Searching for My Father in War-Torn Ethiopia

Jonathan Wickham

Exit of a Hero Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria

Okechukwu Nwafor, Okechukwu Charles Nwafor

Egyptian Sculpture Archaic to Saite. from the Petrie Collection

Anthea Page

Apedemak

Louis Zabkar

Lisa in Egypt About a Ten-Year-Old Girl Who Went to an Archaeological Excavation in Egypt

Lisa Seldenthuis

Mistaking Order for Anarchy Territory, Mobility, and Security in the Sahel

Casey McNeill