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Encyclopedia of Africa: South of the Sahara

By Senior Operations Officer John Middleton (Bristol Management Research Centre UK)

Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism: The Case of Sayid Mahammad 'Abdille Hasan

By Said S. Samatar

African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

By Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn

Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent

By Keith Somerville

From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa

By Gerard Prunier

'Treatise on the Rivers of Cuama' by Antonio da Conceicao

By Malyn Newitt (, Emeritus Professor, King's College London)

The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo, 1880-92

By J. Vansina

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics

By Giacomo Macola

History of Central Africa: The Contemporary Years: Since 1960

By Birmingham, David, Martin, Phyllis M.

History of Central Africa

By Birmingham, D., Martin, P.

Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa

By J. Vansina

The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara

By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, David Maisel

Army of God: Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa

By David Axe, Tim Hamilton

King Leopold's Ghost: A story of greed, terror and heroism in the Congo

The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding

By Severine Autesserre (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York)

The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006

By Filip Reyntjens (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)

Having People, Having Heart - Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

By China Scherz

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

By Jason Stearns

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

By Donald Petterson

Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo

By Jules Marchal, Adam Hochschild, Martin Thom

Capricorn: David Stirling's Africa Campaign

By Richard Hughes

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

By Luise White

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo

By Michela Wrong

Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003

By Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

Africa: A Modern History

By Guy Arnold

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

Learning From Somalia: The Lessons Of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

By Jeffrey Herbst, Walter S Clarke

State in the Making: Myth, History and Transformation in Pre-colonial Ufipa

By Roy Willis

Zanzibar: Tradition and Revolution

By Esmond Bradley Martin