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A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994

By Arnold Hughes, David Perfect

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

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

By James F. Searing

The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France, and Black Africa 1939-1956

By John Kent (Lecturer in International History, Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science)

The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

By Peter Mark (Wesleyan University, Connecticut), Jose da Silva Horta (Universidade de Lisboa)

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History

By Jeremy Black

Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Black and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786-1791

By Stephen J. Braidwood

When the State Fails: Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War

By Tunde Zack-Williams (University of Central Lancashire)

The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana

By Jean Marie Allman

Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century

By Martin Lynn (Queen's University Belfast)

Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order

By Ivor Wilks

Nkrumah and the Chiefs: Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951-1960

By Richard Rathbone

Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra

By John Parker

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987

By D. K. Fieldhouse (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge)

Family Identity And The State In The Bamako Kafu, C. 1800-c. 1900

By B. Marie Perinbam, B Marie Perinbam

Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960

By Francois Manchuelle, Martin A. Klein

Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873

By Larry W. Yarak (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A & M University)

History of West Africa

By The Diagram Group

Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, and Democracy in Nigeria

By Darren Kew

Bronze Head From Ife

By Editha Platte

The Rough Guide To West Africa

By Rough Guides