West Africa

Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria Revolutionary black feminist Andree Blouin's memoir of Africa's liberation struggles “We who have been colonized can never forget” Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman...

A Nigerian Doctor's Story A young man's medical education in 1990s Nigeria: a deeply personal memoir that provides a window onto ordinary Nigerian lives at a time of political turmoil....

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' – BARACK...

The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic...

A Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her search for belonging and identity 'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat...

Edited by Larry Siems The international bestseller that set the world on fire, told in full: Mohamedou Ould Slahi's unflinching account of his fourteen years of detention without charge in...

You think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.From the moment when, as...

A Black spirit memoir A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self. In letters addressed to their friends,...

From one of fashion's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers Edward Enninful has lived an extraordinary life. Here, for the first time, he shares the inspiring story of...

An Odyssey to Europe A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odyssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country...