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Favorite books about Africa and the Congo
Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Edition)
by Joseph Conrad, W.W. Norton, 2005
Green Hills of Africa 
by Ernest Hemingway, Scribner, 1935
West with the Night
by Beryl Markham, Houghton-Mifflin, 1942
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe, Anchor Books, 1994
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader, Knopf, 1997
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild, Houghton-Mifflin, 1998
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
by Michela Wrong, Harper Perennial, 2002
The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo
by Robert Edgerton, St. Martin’s Press, 2002
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
by Martin Dugard, Doubleday, 2003
Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War
by Jimmie Briggs, Basic Books, 2005
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
by Tim Jeal, Yale University Press, 2007
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
by Josh Swiller, Henry Holt, 2007
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier, Oxford University Press, 2007
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Gerard Prunier, Oxford University Press, 2008
All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
by Bryan Mealer, Bloomsbury, 2008
Say You're One of Them 
by Uwem Akpan, Little, Brown & Co., 2008
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
by Richard Dowden, Public Affairs, 2009
Useful books about natural life in Africa
African Silences
by Peter Matthiessen, Random House, 1991
The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Animals
by Richard Estes, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1993
Signs of the Wild
by Clive Walker, Struik, 1996
Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa
by Austin Roberts, John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 1985
Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behavior in East Africa
by Cynthia Moss, Houghton-Mifflin, 1975
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