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John Reader

John Reader was a photo-journalist based in Nairobi from 1969 to 1979. Africa: A Biography of the Continent is out from Penguin.

Selected bibliography

  • Africa: A Biography of the Continent (1998)
  • The Rise of Life (1986)

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 not available in archive Scram from Africa · 16 March 2000

  • The Politics of the Independence of Kenya by Keith Kyle

 not available in archive Clipping Their Whiskers · 28 October 1999

  • The Physician and the Slave Trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone Expeditions, and the Crusade against Slavery in East Africa by Daniel Liebowitz