The most popular Africa books of 2026

Negotiating Mistrust Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger

Scott Youngstedt

Out for Glamour in Africa A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

Wanjiru G. Mbure

Qaddafi

Ronald Bruce St John

Occupied Refuge Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya

Hanno Brankamp

Vanished Water Imperialism, Capital, and Rural Ecologies in Late-Colonial Kenya

James D. Parker

Negotiating Childhood French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940

Kelly M. Duke Bryant

Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies

Uriel Simonsohn, Luke Yarbrough, Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Luke Yarbrough

Liberia, 1900–1950 Accounts of the First African Republic

C. Abayomi Cassell

Cosmologies of Mental Health Pentecostal Prayer Camps and Indigenous Knowledge of Healing Mental Illness in Ghana

Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah

Private Entrepreneurship and European Imperialism Dutch Entrepreneurs in the Scramble for Africa, 1830s-1910s

Gijs Dreijer

Middle East From Istanbul to Isfahan

Trevor Naylor

The Passionate Spies How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby, and Lawrence of Arabia Ignited the Arab Revolt

John Harte

People As Protection Civilians Countering Terror in Northeast Nigeria

Daniel E. Agbiboa

African mansions on the Gold Coast

Courtnay Micots

Lusaka street

Sana Ginwalla

By Flesh and Toil How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Mélanie Lamotte

Ties That Bound

J. C. Sharman

Chasing freedom

Simukai Chigudu

Regina

Kate Williams

Unjust Developments

Marco Di Nunzio

The New Carthaginians

The comfort of distant stars

I. O. Echeruo

Medicines That Feed Us Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey A. Langwick

International peacekeeping training centers in Africa

Silvia Peirolo