Africa + African history
Book Reviews
- Ralph A. Austen: Trans-Saharan Africa in World History
- Maghreb, Sudan and Sahara; Islam, empires and trade
- Bruce Chatwin: The Viceroy of Ouidah**
- a short but powerful novel of West Africa
- Graham Connah: African Civilizations*
An Archaeological Perspective
- Ian Cunnison: Baggara Arabs
Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
- E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Nuer
A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
- François-Xavier Fauvelle: The Golden Rhinoceros
Histories of the African Middle Ages
- Morten Jerven: Poor Numbers
How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to do About It
- Alison Jolly: Lords and Lemurs
Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
- Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Emperor
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court
- Niels Kastfelt: Religion and African Civil Wars
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa
- Ahmadou Kourouma: Allah is Not Obliged
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
- Ahmadou Kourouma: The Suns of Independence*
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
- Ahmadou Kourouma: Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote**
- the life story of an African dictator
- John Le Carré: The Constant Gardener
- a thriller about the drug industry in Africa
- Phyllis M. Martin: The External Trade of the Loango Coast 1576-1870
The Effects of Changing Commercial Relations on the Vili Kingdom of Loango
- James C. McCann: Maize and Grace
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
- Colin McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of African History
- Martin Meredith: The Fate of Africa
A History of 50 Years of Independence
- Brian Morris: Insects and Human Life
- insects in the social and cultural life of Malawi
- Cynthia Moss: Portraits in the Wild
Animal Behavior in East Africa
- Tekeste Negash: Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941
Policies, Praxis and Impact
- David Northrup: Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
- Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan: Africa in the Iron Age
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
- Richard Pankhurst: The Ethiopians
A History
- Karim Sadr: The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa
- a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
- Bryan Shorrocks: The Biology of African Savannahs
- species, populations, interactions, communities
- Marjorie Shostak: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
- a woman's life on the edge of the Kalahari
- Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Botswana's only female private investigator at work
- Wole Soyinka: Aké*
- an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town
- Hew Strachan: The First World War in Africa
- Togoland, the Cameroons, South-West Africa, East Africa
- Gebru Tareke: Ethiopia: Power and Protest
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
- Owen White: Children of the French Empire
Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960