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Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution

By Taisier M. Ali, Robert O. Matthews

A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

By Michael Peel

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

By Jacob K. Olupona, Terry Rey

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

By Toyin Falola, Matt D. Childs

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

By Toby Green

Themes in West Africa's History

By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

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

By Will Fowler, Mariusz Kozik, Howard Gerrard

Africa: A Modern History

By Guy Arnold

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

Anansi's Gold: The man who swindled the world

By Yepoka Yeebo

The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

By Herbst, Jeffrey

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

By University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Lynn

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

By University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Lynn

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

By Gregory Mann

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

By Gareth Austin

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

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

London: Immigrant City

By Nazneen Khan-Ostrem, Alison McCullough

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

By Jeremy Black

A Brief History of America

By Jeremy Black

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

By Philip Allison

The Lost Kingdoms of Africa

By Gus Casely-Hayford

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

By George T. Stride, C. Ifeca

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

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

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

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

Armed Struggle in Africa: With the Guerrillas in Portuguese Guinea

By Gerard Chaliand, D. Rattray, Roland Leonhardt

Banking Reform in Nigeria: The Aftermath of the 2009 Financial Crisis

By Y. Makanjuola

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields

By Miriam Goheen

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