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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

Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

By Alexander Thurston

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

By Matthew Hassan Kukha, Toyin Falola, Matthew Hassan Kukah

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

By Padraic X. Scanlan

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

By Lamin O. Sanneh

Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola

By Akinwumi Ogundiran

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

By Robin Law

Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War

By Mike Smith

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century

By Richard Bourne

Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and their Successors

By Ann O'Hear (Royalty Account)

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

By Tony Chafer

African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

By Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn

From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

By Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa

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

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

By Keith Somerville

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

By Sian Rees

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

By Howard Temperley

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

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

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

Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction

By David Fleming, Richard Benjamin

Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By Andrew Arsan

Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments

By Jane I. Guyer

The Message

By Ta-Nehisi Coates