Thanks for the recommendation, I've added it to my amazon basket - great price too.
I recommend: I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
I found I Didn't Do It For You to be a real page turner. Some very interesting history on Britain's colonial conduct - if you didn't know, the UK fought major battles in Eritrea against the Italians in WWII, then ran the country for a decade afterwards before asset stripping it - literally dismantling factories and shipping them around the corner to Kenya - then 'giving' it Emperer Haili Selassie in Ethiopia in the 1960s, after which it fought a 30 year war of independence. It's now a brutal dictatorship with horrendous human rights abuses nicknamed 'the North Korea of Africa'.
Michela Wrong was a well-regarded journalist: Reuters, Economist, FT, who now writes non-fiction books about Africa. She's also written good ones on corruption in Kenya (It's Our Turn To Eat) and a fascinating colonial-to modern-day, history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo).
From Amazon: "If you thought Eritrea was some exotic flower you heard mentioned on a gardening programme this book will tell you something different. It tells the tale of a small group of Africans so despised and trampled by successive foreign occupations that they fought back and after 30 years of war, they became a nation. It is an astounding story packed with tales of the worst ? and the best ? of human behaviour." Richard Dowden, President of the Royal African Society