Nonfiction>Teen/Young Adult>African Setting

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Listen, Layla

Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier  

Achut Deng

Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America

Michaela DePrince 

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by War, Saved by Ballet: An Extraordinary True Story 

Ger Duany w/Garen Thomas

Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Peace Activist Brown

Tom Feelings

Black Pilgrimage

Martin Ganda

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa

Langston Hughes

First Book of Africa   

Peter Magubane

Black Child  

Trevor Noah

It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Barack Obama

Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults)

Kwame Onwuachi

Notes from a Young Black Chef

Marcus Samuelsson

Make It Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life 

Sophia Thakur

Wearing My Mother’s Heart

Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child