Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction Reviews: This include memoirs, personal essays, travelogues, (auto)biographies, treatise (or thesis), subject-matter texts, and others.
  1. A Month and a Day & Letters by Ken Saro-Wiwa
  2. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  3. A Sense of Savannah: Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana by Kofi Akpabli
  4. A Woman Alone by Bessie Head
  5. Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  6. Birds of Our Land by Virginia W. Dike
  7. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Event by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  8. Dead Aid - Why Aid Makes things Worse and How there is another Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
  9. Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
  10. Excursions in My Mind by Nana Awere Damoah
  11. Fela, This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore
  12. Freedom Train: the Story of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling
  13. Gathering Seaweed: Africa Prison Writing by Jack Mapanje
  14. I Write What I Like by Bantu Steve Biko
  15. If I'm So Successful, Why do I Feel Like a Fake: The Impostor Phenomenon by Joan C. Harvey with Cynthia Katz
  16. Interventions - A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan
  17. Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy by David Rooney
  18. My First Coup D'etat - Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa by John Dramani Mahama
  19. Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
  20. No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  21. Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
  22. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
  23. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
  24. Reading Lolita in London by Sophia Acheampong
  25. The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
  26. The Shadow of Imana by Veronique Tadjo
  27. Speeches that Changed the World by Emma Beare (Editor)
  28. Through the Gates of Thought by Nana Awere Damoah
  29. Tickling the Ghanaian: Encounters with Contemporary Culture by Kofi Akpabli
  30. The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
  31. Women Leading Africa - Conversations with Inspirational African Women by Nana Darkoa-Sekyiamah (Editor)
  32. You Must Set Forth at Dawn by Wole Soyinka

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