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African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village

By Pat Caplan

The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire

By Norrie MacQueen

The World of the Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization

By John Middleton

African Modernities

By Deutsch

Cleopatra: A Biography

By Duane W. Roller (Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

Decolonization in Africa

By J D. Hargreaves

Monde en cours

By Ki-Zerbo, Joseph

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

Sahara

By Catherine Guignon

The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation

By Kwame Nimako, Glenn Willemsen, Stephen Small

Freedom by a Hair's Breadth: Tsimihety in Madagascar

By Peter J. Wilson

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

By Pier M. Larson

Africa in History

By Basil Davidson

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

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

By Walvin, Professor James

Madagascar: A Short History

By Solofo Randrianja, Stephen Ellis

Atlas of Slavery

By James Walvin

Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain

By Richard Huzzey

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

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

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

By Walter Hawthorne (Michigan State University)

African Americans and Africa: A New History

By Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

Readings in African Politics

By Tom Young

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

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

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

By David Robinson

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

By Brenda Cooper, Andrew Steyn

Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa

By Andrew Merrills

Africa's Past, Our Future

By Kathleen R. Smythe

The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against

By John Pinfold

Le Maghreb à l'épreuve de la colonisation

By Rivet, Daniel

Season of Rains: Africa in the World

By Stephen Ellis