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

By John Parker

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

By Richard Rathbone

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

By Ivor Wilks

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

By Martin Lynn (Queen's University Belfast)

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

By Jean Marie Allman

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

By Tunde Zack-Williams (University of Central Lancashire)

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

By Stephen J. Braidwood

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History

By Jeremy Black

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)

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)

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

By James F. Searing

The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

By John D. Hargreaves

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

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

By Hollis R. Lynch

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

By P. Valsecchi

Sierra Leone beyond the Lome Peace Accord

By M. Mustapha, J. Bangura

The West African Slave Plantation: A Case Study

By M. Salau

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

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

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

By Michael J. Watts

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

By Michael Gomez

Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

By Paul E. Lovejoy

Orisa Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture

By Jacob K. Olupona, Terry Rey

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

Africa: A Modern History

By Guy Arnold

Certain Death in Sierra Leone: The SAS and Operation Barras 2000

By Will Fowler, Mariusz Kozik, Howard Gerrard

Themes in West Africa's History

By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

By Toyin Falola, Matt D. Childs

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

A Claim to Land by the River: A Household in Senegal, 1720-1994

By Adrian Adams (Secretary, Secretary, Federation des Paysans Organises du Departement de Bakel), Jaabe So (President, President