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Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence

By Osaghae, Eghosa

The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966: Contexts and legacies: 20 (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines)

By David Murphy

Kingdoms of the Yoruba

By Robert S. Smith

Warriors, Merchants and Slaves: State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914

By Richard L. Roberts

Ahmadu Bello: Sardauna of Sokoto

By John N Paden, John N. Paden

This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis

By Karl Maier

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)

A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994

By Arnold Hughes, David Perfect

Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Cte d'Ivoire

By Joseph Hellweg

Mobilizing the Masses

By Schmidt

Making War in Cote d'Ivoire

By Mike McGovern

History of West Africa

By The Diagram Group

Another America

By James Ciment

This House Has Fallen: Nigeria In Crisis

By Karl Maier

Bronze Head From Ife

By Editha Platte

Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, and Democracy in Nigeria

By Darren Kew

It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book.' SIMON REEVE

By Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata

Muslim Societies in African History

By David Robinson (Michigan State University)

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

By Judith Scheele (University of Oxford)