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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

By Dipo Faloyin

Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

By Susan Reynolds Whyte (University of Copenhagen)

Africa since 1800

By Roland Oliver (University of London), Anthony Atmore

A History of African Societies to 1870

By Elizabeth Isichei (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Colonial South Africa:Origins Racial Order

By Tim Keegan

The Penguin Atlas of African History

By Colin McEvedy

People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder

By J. F. Ade Ajayi, J. D. Y. Peel

West Africa

By R.J.Harrison Church

African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing

By Philip M. Peek

Medieval Africa, 1250-1800

By Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore

Different Drums

By Michael Wood

Political Reform In Francophone Africa

By John F Clark

Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By George E. Brooks

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa

By Ghislaine Lydon (University of California, Los Angeles)

Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-85

By Alex De Waal

Exporting Empire: Africa, Colonial Officials and the Construction of the British Imperial State, C.1900-39

By Christopher Prior

The African Experience

By Roland Oliver

Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant

By Robert H. Jackson, Carl G. Rosberg

Africa: Land of the Sun

By John Reader, Michael Lewis

Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood

By Germaine Greer

Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries: v. 20

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth

By Tom Burgis

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

L' Affaire Boisson: Un proconsul de Vichy en Afrique

By LES INDES SAVANTES

L'Afrique du Nord en marche: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1880-1952

By Julien, Charles-André

The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880-1995

By Thomas J. Bassett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

By John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff

The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea REVISED AND UPDATED

By Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R. Mekonnen

The African City: A History

By Bill Freund (University of Natal, South Africa)

Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa

By Herbert M. Cole