West Africa Books


A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Best Price: $6.88 I really liked the book. Its a story that needs to be told and Mr Beah does a great job of...	Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Best Price: $8.29 This is a story of rejection of those of us forced into slavery by force and not by choice, by...	The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia (Sources and Studies in World History) Best Price: $26.95 This is the most important book I have ever read about Africa and the global economy. I read...	The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo Best Price: $8.44 Clea Koff is a forensic anthropologist who worked with teams in Rwanda, Croatia, Bosnia and...	The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa Best Price: $6.49 I will not recite the many details already cited by the publishers and reviewers. What should...



Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Best Price: $2.90 I first stumbled upon Schama with his History of Britain a couple of years ago, and I've been...	The Mask of Anarchy Updated Edition: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War Best Price: $24.00 Many people who are interested in Africa have always been disappointed that there are so few...	The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition Best Price: $10.43 This was a tough little book for me to read. If one were a student of linguistics or ancient...	Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone Best Price: $0.47 This book arrived quicker than I thought. We are planning to move and I thought this book would...	Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 (New African Histories) Best Price: $24.25 In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious...



A History of Nigeria Best Price: $14.60 Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its...	The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $7.74 Anyone who has studied art history is probably already familiar with Gericault's famous painting...	The Village of Waiting Best Price: $4.79 If you want to cast moral judgement on George Packer, don't read this book. If you want to read...	A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria Best Price: $20.65 E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help make fraud Nigeria's largest...	Blood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious Stones Best Price: $4.99 Yes this is the book that the recent movie was based on. No I have not seen the movie. The...

Kwame Nkrumah: Father Of African Nationalism Best Price: $13.25 Kwame Nkrumah, whose shadow looms over all of Africa in terms of his importance for...	A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF And the Destruction of Sierra Leone Best Price: $21.63 I've never had any interest in writing a review before, but I felt compelled after reading Mr....	African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame Best Price: $3.99 African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame	Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa Best Price: $3.99 For anyone who plans on spending time in West Africa, this is a must read. Shaffer does a...	Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold Best Price: $12.97 _Timbuktu_ by Marq De Villiers and Sheila Hirtle is an engaging history of that fabled Saharan...

Culture and Customs of Ghana (Culture and Customs of Africa) Best Price: $46.36 We really enjoyed learning of the many customs, cultures, and historical events that have shaped...	Ghana. Understanding the People and their Culture Best Price: $23.95 This is a very low quality printed book. I do not recommend it for the price they are charging....	The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (The W.E.B. Dubois Institute Series) Best Price: $7.62 This is a short book, but very difficult to read. This is surprising since the author has a...	Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields Best Price: $14.95 Ms. Goheen adroitly locates her work in the grassfields of Cameroon within a rich theoretical...	The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon Best Price: $8.86 I always approach a biography or a volume of history written by a Brit with great caution. ...

Civil Wars, Child Soldiers and Post Conflict Peace Building in West Africa Best Price: $18.95 A study of conflict and post conflict reconstruction in West Africa discussing issues such as...	Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle Best Price: $8.00 Among the many useful titles on women's liberation published by Pathfinder Press sits a gem of a...	In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove Best Price: $129.66 What a wonderful job Carol Spindel has done describing her year in an Ivory Coast village. So...	Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited Best Price: $29.18 Having been to Africa, I can attest that this volume of photographs (the result of a...	Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs Best Price: $21.99 The book is very good. Make a jorney in one of the Africa most interesting tribe. You will enjoy...

Orisa Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture Best Price: $25.00 As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the...	Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series) Best Price: $12.82 what an amazing book! i loved the style of short lectures that were easily disgestible.	The War Without a Name: France in Algeria, 1954-1962 John Talbot does a good job reviewing the reason why this war was fought. Algeria had been...	'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: $22.67 The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself is a key text for understanding the...	Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-organizing Landscape (Case Studies in Early Societies) Best Price: $18.97 The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make...

Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of Niger Best Price: $28.50 I would just like to say that I am taking a class on Magic Religions and Witchcraft from Paul...	Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958 (Social History of Africa Series) Best Price: $27.95 The Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA) led Guinea to independence in 1958, advancing a...	Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings Best Price: $20.00 This book is currently out-of-print, it details the thoughts of Amilcar Cabral a central leader...	Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade Best Price: $16.68 The Atlantic slave trade was one of the greatest intercontinental migrations in world history....	A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana. From the 15th to the 19th Century Best Price: $25.95 Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have...

Class Struggle In Africa Best Price: $17.89 Kwame Nkrumah's ideas are as much a failure in theory as they are in practice. His book, like...	Black Man's Grave: Letters From Sierra Leone Best Price: $8.94 The authors are well qualified to write on the subject of Sierra Leone, having lived in a...	Ghana (Enchantment of the World. Second Series)	The Trouble with Nigeria (African Writers Series) Best Price: $8.17 Is it Hubris to review a book on a country you know absolutely nothing about? More like...	Fighting Slave Trade: West African Strategies (Western African Studies) Best Price: $18.18 This book is in fact not written by Diouf but is a collection of over a dozen different essays...

Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (Politics, History, and Culture) Best Price: $20.00 For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to...	The Dogon of West Africa (Celebrating the Peoples and Civilizations of Africa) Best Price: $4.00 Beware that this is not a serious study of the Dogon people intended for adult readers. It is...	How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 Best Price: $24.50 Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental...	American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Best Price: $20.84 In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from...	THE FORGOTTEN LIBERIAN: History of Indigenous Tribes Best Price: $14.34 The Forgotten Liberian, a brief history of the ethnic groups of the Liberian Lintenland. The...

Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana Best Price: $18.29 Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and...	The Meanings of Timbuktu Best Price: $60.00 Contradicting the popular notion that African history survived only through the oral tradition,...	This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria Best Price: $48.54 An interesting journey through a dangerous country. Perhaps too much time is spent...	Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge Best Price: $19.00 In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering...	Angola Under the Portuguese: The Myth and the Reality Best Price: $45.78 The book is the first comprehensive study of race relations in Angola. It covers the entire...

Under the Neem Tree Best Price: $15.81 My Peace Corps experience was in Dominican Republic -- Susan Lowerre writes like an angel about...	Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper Series) Best Price: $11.99	Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone Best Price: $50.00 This book provides a history of the last ten years of Sierra Leone, including a new and...	Fishing in the Sky: The Education of Namory Keita Best Price: $15.45 I loved reading this book and the adventure that I shared. I really felt like I was there with...	OPERATION BARRAS: The SAS Rescue Mission to Sierra Leone 2000 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) Best Price: $5.43 The book gives a good background history on the conflict in Sierra Leone, providing the reader...

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