 | Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.99 encyclopaedic history of the African continent and its peoples. entertaining and enlightening.
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 | History of Egypt from the Earliest Time to the Persian Conquest (1909) by James Henry Breasted
Buy new: £32.25 / Used from: £33.78 detailed account of ancient Egyptian history
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 | Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892 (Western African Studies) by Robin Law
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £15.59 written in an academic style but quite interesting
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 | The story of Nigeria by Michael Crowder
Buy used from: £8.00 readable and fairly comprehensive
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 | Black Experience and the Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series)
Buy new: £18.90 / Used from: £15.90 detailed and interesting
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 | Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Longman African Writers) by D. T. Niane
Buy used from: £7.43 the recording of an oral tradition of the Malinke people of Mali. very interesting
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| A Glorious Age in Africa by Daniel Chu
Buy used from: £14.73 simple introduction to 3 significant West African empires
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| Ancient Ghana and Mali (Study in African History) by Nehemia Levtzion
Buy used from: £152.45 detailed and very interesting
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| Man from Dahomey by Frank Yerby
Buy used from: £0.01 fiction set in the historical kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa. interesting re-construction.
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 | Nubian Pharaohs and Meroitic Kings: The Kingdom of Kush by Necia Desiree Harkless
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £18.85 interesting account of Sudanese Pharaohs and the Sudanese kingdom of Meroe
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 | Black Athena: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 v.1: Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 Vol 1 by Martin Bernal
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £5.50 very academic but worth the trouble
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 | African Experience: From Olduvai Gorge to the 21st Century (History of Civilization) by Roland Oliver
Buy used from: £2.00 readable account of African history from earliest times
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 | Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000AD by Chancellor Williams
Buy used from: £18.18 a radical account of the vast expanse of black history. not for the fainthearted.
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 | The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality? by Cheikh Anta Diop
Buy new: £8.21 / Used from: £6.99 detailed analysis of the racial identity of ancient Egyptians
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| Discovering Africa's Past by Basil Davidson
Buy used from: £23.00 good introduction to African history
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 | Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants
Buy new: £19.90 / Used from: £19.87 an excellent read
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 | They Came Before Columbus by Van Sertima
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £7.04 highly recommended
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 | Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £4.15 very readable and very entertaining
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 | West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850 by Basil Davidson
Buy new: £21.99 / Used from: £17.50 very good introduction to West African history
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 | Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa by B Vandervort
Buy used from: £12.00 fairly comprehensive account
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 | Honour in African History (African Studies) by John Iliffe
Buy new: £23.79 / Used from: £7.09 academic but worth the read
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 | The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £0.01 best history book I've ever read
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| A THOUSAND YEARS OF WEST AFRICAN HISTORY. by J.F. and Ian Espie. Edited by. Ajayi
excellent introduction to West African history
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 | Ibn Battuta in Black Africa by Ibn Battutah
Buy new: £22.50 / Used from: £12.12 an excellent companion to "Medieval West Africa". nice read.
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| A History of Islam in West Africa (Oxford Paperbacks) by J.Spencer Trimingham
Buy used from: £9.00 detailed account, worth the trouble
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