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An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
by Peggielene Bartels, Eleanor Herman
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by Michelle Obama
Published Mar 2021
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2019 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
by Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsFind Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
by John Mahama
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsMy First Coup d'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.
by Wangari Maathai
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsHugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Published Feb 2001
Read ReviewsPrecious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.
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