West Africa Books


Our Grandmothers' Drums An account of a white man's attempt to penetrate the mystery of Gambian womanhood.	A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria Best Price: $21.13 I read this book for a graduate Anthropology course. Compared to many of the other books we...	Soldiers of Light Best Price: $137.00 In 1991, civil war broke out in Sierra Leone; in 1999 peace was declared and the British...	From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures,) Best Price: $51.03 This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in...	War to Peace Transition: Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding in Liberia Best Price: $38.88 This book explores the political history of Liberia and its descent to civil war, the regional...



Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World Best Price: $29.50 Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans...	Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone (African Issues)	Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Lie of the Borderlands Since 1914 (Western African Studies) Best Price: $51.82 The current border between Ghana and Togo is usually regarded as a classically arbitrary...	Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $30.00 The focus is on the history of the Anlo-Ewe of south-eastern Ghana from the 17th-19th centuries,...	Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Best Price: $8.63 Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge...



Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones Best Price: $4.34 This is a thoroughly engrossing portrait of the chaos that devastated Sierra Leone throughout...	Sierra Leone: Experiment in Democracy in an African Nation (Studies in peaceful change)	Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic Best Price: $24.44	British Foreign Policy And the Conflict in Sierra Leone, 1991-2001	The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria

Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, C.1850 to Recent Times (Western African studies)	Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986 (Social History of Africa) A study of links between interethnic conflict and processes of reconciliation in the ethnically...	Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors (Ohio RIS Africa Series) Best Price: $20.78 The history of European imperial behavior in Africa is not a pleasant one. However, the behavior...	Thomas Sankara parle, La rÃ©volution au Burkina Faso 1983-1987 (French Language Edition) (French Edition) Best Price: $23.99 Sous la direction de Thomas Sankara, le gouvernement révolutionnaire du Burkina Faso en...	Those Magical Years: The Making of Nigerian Literature at Ibadan, 1948-1966 Best Price: $16.21

Biafra Revisited Best Price: $33.94 This text demonstrates that the Biafran War, 1967-1970, was the second phase of the Igbo...	An Interesting Narrative of a Mission Sent to Sierra Leone, in Africa, by the Methodists, in 1811; To Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Rise Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	Narrative of an Expedition Into the Vy Country of West Africa, and the Discovery of a System of Syllabic Writing, Recently Invented by the Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation Best Price: $4.78 In this very clear and well written memoir, Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna tells not only her story,...	A Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) Best Price: $39.95 A Political History of The Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political...

Political Transition in Nigeria 1993-2003. Commentaries on Selected Themes Best Price: $39.94 This is a collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of...	Civil Wars, Child Soldiers and Post Conflict Peace Building in West Africa Best Price: $21.94 A study of conflict and post conflict reconstruction in West Africa discussing issues such as...	'The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself' and Other Writings, by Otumfuo, Nana Agyeman Prempeh I (Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History) Best Price: $21.32 The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself is a key text for understanding the...	Tales of Travels in Central Africa; Including Denham and Clapperton's Expedition, Park's First and Second Journey, Tuckey's Voyage up the Congo, ... Expedition, and Callie's Travels to Timbuct Best Price: $15.46 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana Best Price: $52.46 Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and...

A Bird Dance near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade (African Expressive Cultures) Best Price: $17.94 In 1978, Patrick McNaughton witnessed a bird dance masquerade in the small town of Dogoduman. He...	Tongnaab: The History of a West African God Best Price: $60.99 For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring...	Kwame Nkrumah: The Political Kingdom in the Third World Best Price: $74.93	Ahmadu Bello: Sardauna of Sokoto	In My Father's Country: A Nigerian Journey

Some Historical Account of Guinea Best Price: $13.24 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...	The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia, Second Edition (Sources and Studies in World History) Best Price: $7.65 This is the most important book I have ever read about Africa and the global economy. I read...	The Patterned Skin: Ethnic Scarification in Developing Ghana (Intervention Press) Best Price: $66.72 This ethnographic study involves the exploration of Ghanaian concepts and the cultural...	Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (GuinÃ©e-Bissau) (African Sources for African History) (French Edition) Best Price: $97.38 Cette premiÃ¨re Ã©dition critique d'un manuscrit Ã©crit en...	Women in Nigerian History: The Rivers and Bayelsa States Experience Best Price: $220.54 This books represents a survey of the historical experience of women in the Niger Delta region,...

A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana. From the 15th to the 19th Century Best Price: $29.94 Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have...	The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Landmarks, Legacies, Expectations: Proceedings of the International Conference on Historic Slave Route Held at Accra, The proceedings of the International Conference on Historic Slave Route Held at Accra, Ghana on...	Yaa Asantewaa and Asante Hardcover 182 pages. Written in English.	Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone Best Price: $8.51 This is a great book of how one man can could make a difference in the Cold War. Author Devlin...	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Best Price: $5.46 I have never read a book that was so interesting and had me hooked about war until now. I...

Gomna's Children Gomna?s Children is a story set in colonial Sierra Leone. When the Paramount Chief of Yawei...	Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Best Price: $10.24 In Lose Your Mother , Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by...	Ivoirien Capitalism: African Entrepreneurs in Cote D'Ivoire	Antiquities from the City of Benin and from Other Parts of West Africa in the British Museum Best Price: $89.00	Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) Best Price: $67.47 The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on...

Certain Death in Sierra Leone - The SAS and Operation Barras 2000 (Raid) Best Price: $10.85 An interesting, informative and detailed account of the facinating rescue of British soldiers in...	The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Roots of an African Civil War Best Price: $25.77 Liberia was in the headlines in 1990 when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men...	Fishing in the Sky: The Education of Namory Keita Best Price: $14.99 Lawder writes beautifully of his life as an older Peace Corps volunteer in Africa. Rather than...	The Muslim Resurgence in Ghana since 1950: Its Effect upon Muslims and Muslim-Christian Relations (Christian - Muslim Relations) Best Price: $50.95 This volume examines the place of Islam in Ghanaian society, with particular attention to the...	Farmers and Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria: Abakaliki during Colonial Times (1905-1960) Best Price: $44.94 This work documents the history of change during the colonial period in the Abakaliki division...

AMINA Born in 1568 C.E. the granddaughter of King Nuhir, the 22nd ruler of Zazzau's kingdom, had...	The History of Umuchu An intriguing and engaging account of the origins, customs and political organisation of Umuchu...	Thomas Sankara parle, La rÃ©volution au Burkina Faso 1983-1987 (French Language Edition) (French Edition) Best Price: $23.99 Sous la direction de Thomas Sankara, le gouvernement révolutionnaire du Burkina Faso en...	Those Magical Years: The Making of Nigerian Literature at Ibadan, 1948-1966 Best Price: $16.21	Biafra Revisited Best Price: $33.94 This text demonstrates that the Biafran War, 1967-1970, was the second phase of the Igbo...

An Interesting Narrative of a Mission Sent to Sierra Leone, in Africa, by the Methodists, in 1811; To Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Rise Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	Narrative of an Expedition Into the Vy Country of West Africa, and the Discovery of a System of Syllabic Writing, Recently Invented by the Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation Best Price: $4.78 In this very clear and well written memoir, Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna tells not only her story,...	A Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) Best Price: $39.95 A Political History of The Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political...	Political Transition in Nigeria 1993-2003. Commentaries on Selected Themes Best Price: $39.94 This is a collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of...

Civil Wars, Child Soldiers and Post Conflict Peace Building in West Africa Best Price: $21.94 A study of conflict and post conflict reconstruction in West Africa discussing issues such as...	Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold Best Price: $5.63 Timbuktu--the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long...	Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Senegal and the Gold Coast (Western African Studies)	Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century (Western African Studies) Best Price: $53.36 From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Luso- Africans, the descendants of Portuguese...	La emancipación de la mujer y la lucha africana por la libertad (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $8.00 No existe una verdadera revolución social sin la liberación de la mujer,? explica...

Exorcising Devils from the Throne: Sao Tome and Principe Best Price: $21.95 Exorcising Devils from the Throne introduces a small African archipelago that is virtually...	Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War	The History of the N'ko Alphabet and Its Role in Mande Transnational Identity: Words As Weapons Best Price: $12.81 In her seminal work Dianne White Oyler discusses the creation of the N'ko alphabet, based on...	Congo Diary: The Story of Che Guevara's "Lost" Year in Africa Best Price: $12.12 Featuring a foreword by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("Che Guevara in Africa"), this book...	Sweet Liberia: Lessons from the Coal Pot Best Price: $10.57 Because cooking and eating occur outdoors, many Liberian lives revolve around a coal pot. ...

Nigeria's Silent Holocaust: A Call to Save the Peoples of Divided Nigeria from the Never Ending Bloody Conflict	The History of Ogbaku to 1900: A Genealogical Outline	Dennis and the Ibo Bible: The Missionary Work of Tom Dennis in Nigeria and the Creation of the Union Ibo Language	Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 2: Origin of Civilization from the Cushites Best Price: $24.91 Classic history of Ancient Ethiopia, as researched and written by a heralded African American...	A Short Account Of That Part Of Africa Inhabited By The Negroes: With Respect To The Fertility Of The Country (1762) Best Price: $21.87 The Good Disposition Of Many Of The Natives And The Manner By Which The Slave Trade Is Carried On.

Integration and Fragmentation of the Sudan: An African Renaissance Best Price: $20.10 The most comprehensive, profound, and accurate book ever written in the history of modern Sudan,...	Revitalization of Somalia: Dib u soo Nooleynta Somaaliya Best Price: $18.72 The content of this books is as following: 1.Summary of the Civil War in Somalia 3.Political...	Ashanti War (1874): A Narrative Prepared from the Official Document by Permission of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley	The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade Best Price: $7.93 This is a monograph on one of the few remaining monuments of the slave trade that still exist in...	Tusona-Luchazi Ideographs: A Graphic Tradition of West-Central Africa (Studien Zur Ethnopsychologie Und Ethnopsychoanalyse) Best Price: $45.95 Various graphic systems designed to express and transmit ideas or to convey messages were known...

A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier A gripping account of how the 50-year life of Nigeria has been shaped by the crude oil that...	The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new...	Some Historical Account of Guinea Best Price: $28.93 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was...	This House Has Fallen 'This is an example of a country that has fallen down; it has collapsed. This house has...	Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series) Best Price: $19.96 In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship...

My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence Best Price: $13.00 A short, well written history of Nigeria. A nice blend of the big picture and the author's...	Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $115.98 The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger,...	Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $29.95 Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa...	Class, Ethnicity and Democracy	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Best Price: $4.99 There is no possible way for me or you, the readers, to walk in the footsteps of Ishmael Beah in...

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