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Press and Politics in Nigeria, 1880-1937

By Fred I.A. Omu

This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis

By Karl Maier

Making War in Cote d'Ivoire

By Mike McGovern

Mobilizing the Masses

By Schmidt

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

By Joseph Hellweg

A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994

By Arnold Hughes, David Perfect

Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873

By Larry W. Yarak (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A & M University)

Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960

By Francois Manchuelle, Martin A. Klein

Family Identity And The State In The Bamako Kafu, C. 1800-c. 1900

By B. Marie Perinbam, B Marie Perinbam

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)

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