* _African Sky and Other Stories_ (2004)
* _Kilimanjaro and the Great Rift_ (2009)
* _The Last White Man in Africa_ (2012)
* _The African Odyssey: A Journey in Prose_ (2016)
* Non-fiction:
* _From the Congo to the World: The Life of Patrice Lumumba_ (1994)
* _Inside Central Africa: A Report from the Congo Crisis_ (1996)
* _The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair_ (1999)
* _The Great Lakes of Africa: A History of Conflict and Hope_ (2004)
* Children's books:
* _The Boy Who Loved the Clouds_ (2007)
* _The Girl Who Sang to the Animals_ (2010)
* _The Boy Who Became a Giant_ (2013)