History of Western Africa

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

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

By Brian J. Peterson

Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria 1897-1936

By Paul E. Lovejoy (York University, Toronto), Jan S. Hogendorn (Colby College, Maine)

Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History

By N. Levtzion, J.F.P. Hopkins

Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana

By Bayo Holsey

Sierra Leone: A Political History

By David Harris

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

By Michael Gomez

The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics

By Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell

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

A Reliable Account of the Coast of Guinea (1760)

By Ludewig Ferdinand Romer, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

By Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes