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'God Alone is King': Islam and Emanicipation in Senegal - The Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859-1914

By James F. Searing

The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589

By Toby Green (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, King's College London)

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

White Dreams, Black Africa: Antislavery Expedition to the Niger, 1841-42

By Howard Temperley

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade

By Sian Rees

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

By Keith Somerville

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa

By Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, Silke Strickrodt, Bronwen Everill (Customer), Christopher Brown (Contributor)

From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

By Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood

African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

By Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn

The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization

By Tony Chafer

Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and their Successors

By Ann O'Hear (Royalty Account)

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century

By Richard Bourne

Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War

By Mike Smith

Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727-1892

By Robin Law

Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola

By Akinwumi Ogundiran

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa

By Lamin O. Sanneh

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

By Padraic X. Scanlan

Religious Militancy and Self-assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria

By Matthew Hassan Kukha, Toyin Falola, Matthew Hassan Kukah

Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

By Alexander Thurston

Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

By Paul E. Lovejoy

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

By Michael Gomez

Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria

By Michael J. Watts

French Caribbeans in Africa: Diasporic Connections and Colonial Administration, 1880-1939

By V. HA (c)lA (c)non, Kenneth A. Loparo

The West African Slave Plantation: A Case Study

By M. Salau

Sierra Leone beyond the Lome Peace Accord

By M. Mustapha, J. Bangura

Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By P. Valsecchi

K. O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990

By Hollis R. Lynch

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

By John D. Hargreaves

This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis

By Karl Maier