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Season of Rains: Africa in the World

By Stephen Ellis

The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity

By Edith Bruder (Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies, Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London UK)

The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole

By Elizabeth E. Prevost (Assistant Professor of History, Grinnell College)

Transgressing Boundaries: New Directions in the Study of Culture in Africa

By Brenda Cooper, Andrew Steyn

Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920

By David Robinson

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

By Assistant Professor of History James T Campbell (Northwestern University)

Readings in African Politics

By Tom Young

African Americans and Africa: A New History

By Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830

By Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)

Le Maghreb à l'épreuve de la colonisation

By Rivet, Daniel

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c.1935-1972

By Derek R. Peterson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

By Robin Law (University of Stirling)

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

By Piero Gleijeses

Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present

By Frederick Cooper (New York University)

Slavery In Africa: Historical & Anthropological Perspectives

By Suzanne Miers, Igor Kopytoff

The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

By David Eltis (Queen's University, Ontario)

Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War

By Glenford Deroy Howe

The Zambezi: A History

By Malyn Newitt

The History of Islam in Africa

By Nehemia Levtzion, Randall L. Pouwels

Women and Slavery, Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic

By Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller

Slavery and Slaving in African History

By Sean Stilwell (University of Vermont)

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

By Davis

Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain

By Richard Huzzey

Atlas of Slavery

By James Walvin

Madagascar: A Short History

By Solofo Randrianja, Stephen Ellis

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

By Andrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Leslie J. Bank (University of Fort Hare

Africa in History

By Basil Davidson

History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822

By Pier M. Larson

Freedom by a Hair's Breadth: Tsimihety in Madagascar

By Peter J. Wilson