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Armed Struggle in Africa: With the Guerrillas in Portuguese Guinea

By Gerard Chaliand, D. Rattray, Roland Leonhardt

A Short History of West Africa: Bk. 2: A.D.1800 to the Present Day

By T.A. Osae, etc., A. Odunsi

A Short History of West Africa: Bk. 1: A.D.1000-1800

By T.A. Osae, S.N. Nwabara

Peoples and Empires of West Africa: West Africa in History, 1000-1800

By George T. Stride, C. Ifeca

The Lost Kingdoms of Africa

By Gus Casely-Hayford

Life in the White Man's Grave: A Pictorial Record of the British in West Africa

By Philip Allison

A Brief History of America

By Jeremy Black

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

By Jeremy Black

London: Immigrant City

By Nazneen Khan-Ostrem, Alison McCullough

A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa

By Emma Christopher (Australian Research Council Fellow, University of Sydney)

Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956

By Gareth Austin

Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

By Gregory Mann

Nigeria: Pt. 2: Moving to Independence 1953-1960

By University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Lynn

Nigeria: Pt. 1: Managing Political Reform 1943-1953

By University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Lynn

The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

By Herbst, Jeffrey

Anansi's Gold: The man who swindled the world

By Yepoka Yeebo

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

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

By Keith Somerville

Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

By Brian J. Peterson

Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction

By David Fleming, Richard Benjamin

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

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

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

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

By Howard Temperley

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

By Sian Rees

African Crossroads: Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

By Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn

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