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Islam's Black Slaves

By Ronald Segal

Writing African History

By John Edward Philips, Bala Achi, Barbara Cooper (Royalty Account), Christopher Ehret (Royalty Account), Daniel McCall (Contributor)

American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-70

By Martin Staniland

Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction

By J.D.Y. Peel

A History of Sub-Saharan Africa

By Robert O. Collins (University of California, Santa Barbara), James M. Burns (Clemson University, South Carolina)

African History

By Philip D. Curtin, J. Vansina, L. Thompson, S Feierman

Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

By Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard University, Massachusetts), Robert H. Bates (Harvard University, Nathan Nunn (Harvard University, James Robinson (Harvard University

A History of Africa

By j.d. fage

Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes

By Stephen Howe

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

By Stuart Laing

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa

By Lawrence James

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

Africa's Discovery of Europe

By Northrup

Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa In Focus

By George Clement Bond, Nigel C. Gibson

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

By Michael A. Gomez (New York University)

Africa in World History

By Erik T. Gilbert, Jonathan T. Reynolds

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture

By Patrick Manning (Professor, University of Pittsburgh)

The Graves are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa

By Bill Berkeley

The Drunken King, or, The Origin of the State

By Luc de Heusch

Explorations in African Systems of Thought

By Ivan Karp, Charles S. Bird

The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics

By Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

Seven Myths of Africa in World History

By David Northrup

African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work

By Joanna Grabski, Carol Magee, Patrick McNaughton, Joseph F. Jordan, Silvia Forni

Africans: The History of a Continent

By John Iliffe (St John's College, Cambridge)

Mau Mau from Below

By Greet Kershaw

Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries (v. 4) (UNESCO general history of Africa)

By Unesco, Niane, D.T.

Oromo Democracy: An Indigenous African Political System

By Asmarom Legesse

A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present

By Patrizia Palumbo, angelo del Boca, giulia barrera, Barbara Sorgoni, Nicola Labanca

Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective

By Michael Bratton (Michigan State University), Nicholas van de Walle (Michigan State University)