Reader Submissions: What African History Books Have Impressed You?

What African history books have you been reading? Were they interesting, useful, enlightening? Please share your experience of African history books with us, and tell us why it made an impact on you. Was it a class text? A biography? A history of a country or region? Or was it an investigation of a particular conflict, an appraisal of the state of international aid to Africa, or even an analysis of political and social development?

Share a review with us, the good and the bad, of the books you have been reading.