RAS reviews

The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories - Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam - Eliza Griswold

A Just Defiance - Peter Harris - the inside story of the treason trial of the Delmas Four in South Africa

Why Africa is poor - Dr Greg Mills

The Case for Business in Developing Economies - Ann Bernstein 

Recommended continental studies and histories

Richard Dowden - Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

Stephen Chan - Grasping Africa

Martin Meredith - The State of Africa

Patrick Chabal - Africa: the politics of suffering and smiling

John Iliffe - The African AIDS epidemic: a history

Paul Nugent - Africa since independence

Jean-Francois Bayart - The state in Africa