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

By John Parker

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

'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

Another America

By James Ciment

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century

By Judith Scheele (University of Oxford)

French Colonial Rule and the Baule Peoples: Resistance and Collaboration, 1889-1911

By Timothy C. Weiskel

This House Has Fallen: Nigeria In Crisis

By Karl Maier