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The United States and West Africa
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 80.00Over the last several decades, historians have conducted extensive research into contact between the United States and West Africa during the era of the transatlantic trade. Yet we still understand relatively little about more recent relations between the more...
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 23.95Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, became a prostitute, traveled widely, and learned to speak many languages. She became a close companion of Nigerian Igala kings and the British officers... more...
Nigeria
University Press of America 2011; US$ 29.99Nigeria: After the Nightmare is an in-depth look into the Nigerian experience, explaining what went wrong during the country?s thirty years of dictatorship. The book describes Nigeria's problems including oil, corruption, and dictatorship, but also provides a way for Nigeria to recover and become a leading democratic state. more...
Political Organization in Nigeria since the Late Stone Age
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is know about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is then a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period. more...
The Women's War of 1929
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame. more...
This House Has Fallen
Basic Books 2009; US$ 18.00A journey into contemporary Africa's most powerful and most corrupt nation more...
Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence. This book presents nuanced and contextually specific knowledge of Sierra Leone?s political and... more...
The Predicament of Blackness
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent... more...
A Vanished Dynasty - Ashanti
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 175.00First published in 1921, this is a record of a dynasty which arose in Ashanti in 1695, lasting until 1895, when it fell under the extension of British rule. more...
Post-War Regimes and State Reconstruction in Liberia and Sierra Leone
CODESRIA 2009; US$ 24.95The shocks of the unexpected outbreak of violent internal armed conflicts in post Cold War West Africa continue to linger in policy and academic circles. While considerable attention is devoted to explaining the civil wars, there is little understanding of the delicate and unpredictable processes of reconstruction. Post-war reconstruction programmes... more...









