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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

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

By Stuart Laing

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)

Oromo Democracy: An Indigenous African Political System

By Asmarom Legesse

The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World

By Jeff Pearce

Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa

By James L. Newman

The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics

By Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

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

By Unesco, Niane, D.T.

African Literacies: Ideologies, Scripts, Education

By Ashraf Abdelhay, Yonas Mesfun Asfaha, Kasper Juffermans

Journey to the Vanished City: Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel

By Tudor V. Parfitt

The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800

By Christopher Ehret (Royalty Account)

The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation

By James L. Newman

History from South Africa

By J Brown

Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life

By Martin Meredith

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By Glory Edim

Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt: Pyramids, Plagues, Gods and Grave-Robbers

By Terry Deary

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

By Professor James Walvin

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Central and Equatorial Africa Area Bibliography

By Gordon Harris

Dreamland: Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War / Howard M. Sachar.

By Howard Morley Sachar

An Introduction to African Politics

By Alex Thomson

Sudan: The Gezira Scheme and Agricultural Transition

By Abbas Abdelkarim, Tony Barnett

Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction

By Geraldine Pinch (Oriental Institute, Oxford University)