The most popular Africa books of 2026

The Gods Themselves

Shawn Ramsey, Shawn D. Ramsey

A Night for the Rice Carriers

Carmen Rubin

Who Was Cleopatra?

Who HQ, Kathryn Waterfield

The French Médersa Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa

Samuel D. Anderson

Terror Over Africa The Shocking True Story of the Attempted Hi-Jacking of British Airway's Flight BA2069

Stanley Stewart

The Volcanic and Geothermal Heritage of Morocco

Designing Dynamism Kuba Textiles from the D R Congo, the Wesley Mancini Collection

Vanessa Drake Moraga, Stephen Burks

Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World A Comparative History of Aromatics, Cosmetics and Adornment, from the Mediterranean to the China Seas

Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian

Birds of Madagascar A Photographic Field Guide

Ken Behrens, Callan Cohen

Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa

Inocent Moyo, Zainab Monisola Olaitan, Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Jabulile H Mzimela

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing

Vered Sakal

TasteAtlas' 100 Legendary Restaurants and Their Iconic Dishes

TasteAtlas

Analyzing Contemporary Society through Lived Utopia

Antje Daniel

The Politics of Collaboration Establishing the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912-1927

William A. Hoisington

Paradise of Thorns

Aidan Hartley

Counterrevolution in Egypt Sisi's New Republic

Hossam el-Hamalawy

A Taste of Madagascar Culinary Riches of the Red Island

Emmanuel Laroche

Sacred Economies Christianity, Islam, and Community Care in Uganda

Nicolette Manglos-Weber

Highlights of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo

Zahi Hawass

Afrikakorps at War, 1941-43

Simon Forty, George Forty

Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity

Lauren M. MacLean

West African Combs

Alain-Michel Boyer, Valentine Plisnier, Sarah Boukamel, François Neyt

Scale Boy An African Childhood

Patrice Nganang

North Africa, 1942 The Turning Point

Philip Jowett