Today's Africa is no longer a place of open plains dotted by tiny villages. Africa has large cities with all the elements of modern life - global connections and instant communications, high rise buildings, world-class sports and entertainment. They also have the same modern problems - poverty, homelessness, dangerous areas and violent crime. Murder and mayhem are part our world and Africa has more than it's share. In this SDG we will explore this dark side of the people and culture of Africa through seven distinguished crime novels set in five African countries; Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Botswana and Kenya. This is a fourteen-week SDG but we will only meet in Westwood every other week to discuss the dark side of the dark continent.