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• Africa, West
• Africa -- Politics and government
• Politics and government

• Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1884-1960
• Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 1960-
• Gambia -- Politics and government
• Ghana -- Politics and government
• Liberia -- Politics and government
• Nigeria -- Politics and government
• Sierra Leone -- Politics and government

• Affairs of West Africa (W. Heinemann, 1902), by E. D. Morel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problèmes de l'Ouest africain. (A. Challamel, 1904), by E. D. Morel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The challenge of drug trafficking to democratic governance and human security in West Africa (Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, [2013], 2013), by David E. Brown, Army War College (U.S.). Press, and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Affairs of West Africa (W. Heinemann, 1902), by E. D. Morel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Steven Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nigeria's Decades of Blood, 1980-2002 (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v1; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2003), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
• Nigeria's return to civilian rule : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, September 26, 1979. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Independent Nigeria. Portrait of an African state. Robert H. Lowie museum of anthropology, Kroeber hall, University of California. Exhibit open ... from October 1, 1960. ([Berkeley, 1960), by Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The prosposed cession of the British colony of Gambia to France (Guardian Letterpress and Lithographic Works, 1876), by James F. Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Richard A. Schroeder (HTML at UC Press)

• Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), ed. by Donald Iain Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita Clarke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• The post-war Gold Coast : a review of the events of 1923, with a statement showing the policy adopted by the government for the progress of the people and the situation with regard to trade and finance. Policy, progress, prospects, prosperity (s.n., 1924), by Gordon Guggisberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gold Coast native institutions. With thoughts upon a healthy imperial policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti. (Sweet and Maxwell, limited, 1903), by J. E. Casely Hayford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ghana students in United States oppose U.S. aid to Nkrumah. Staff conferences of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• British justice in Africa : developed in official and other documents concerning certain recent proceedings at the British forts on the Gold coast : to which is prefixed, an introduction (J. Innes, 1816), by Anthony Calvert Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ghana's Policy at Home and Abroad: Text of Speech Given in the Ghana Parliament, August 29, 1957, by Kwame Nkrumah (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jeffrey Ira Herbst (HTML at UC Press)
• Liberia and Ghana--policy challenges in West Africa : a staff report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report on the Gold Coast (H.M.S.O., 1931), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the British mandated sphere of Togoland for ... (H.M.S.O., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Blue book. (H. M. Stationary off., in the 19th century), by Gold Coast (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Gold Coast: annual report for ... (H.M.S.O., 1895), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Independent Republic of Liberia: Its Constitution and Declaration of Independence; Address of the Colonists to the Free People of Color in the United States, with Other Documents, Issued Chiefly For the Use of the Free People of Color (Philadelphia: W. F. Geddes, printer, 1848), by Liberia, contrib. by Simon Greenleaf and Pennsylvania Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia rediscovered (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934), by James C. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution, government and digest of the laws of Liberia (Printed by Way & Gideon, 1825), by Liberia and American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the secretary of state, communicating the report of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who was recently sent out by the government to obtain information in respect to Liberia. September 14, 1850. Read. September 16, 1850. Ordered to be printed. ([Washington, 1850), by United States Department of State and Ralph Randolph Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The republic of Liberia : being a general description of the Negro republic, with its history, commerce, agriculture, flora, fauna, and present methods of administration (C. Scribner, 1920), by R. C. F. Maugham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duty of a rising Christian state to contribute to the world's well-being and civilization, and the means by which it may perform the same : the annual oration before the Common Council and the citizens of Monrovia, Liberia--July 26, 1855, being the day of national independence (Reprinted by the Massachusetts Colonization Society, 1857), by Alexander Crummell, Massachusetts Colonization Society, and Monrovia (Liberia). Common Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statute laws of the Commonwealth of Liberia, and Plan of civil government (s.n.], 1841), by Liberia and American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our origin, dangers and duties. The annual address before the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Monrovia, July 26, 1865, the day of national independence; and repeated on Tuesday, August 1, 1865, at Caldwell, St. Paul's River. (J. A. Gray & Green, printers, 1865), by Edward W Blyden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Means of her relief illustrated by the growth and prospects of Liberia. (J. Nisbet, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical lights of Liberia's yesterday and today (Aldine, 1934), by Ernest Jerome Yancy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Black Republic: Liberia; its political and social conditions today. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Henry Fenwick Reeve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Liberia, recent developments and United States foreign policy hearing and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and on Africa, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 367, January 23, 28, 29, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The situation in Liberia, spring 1980--update : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, April 29, 1980. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. policy and the crisis in Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, June 19, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ongoing civil war and crisis in Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, November 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report consistent with the War Powers Resolution : communication from the President of the United States transmitting a report, consistent with the War Powers Resolution to keep the Congress informed on clashes between Liberian government and rebel forces in the vicinity of the United States Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia. (U.S. G.P.O., 2003), by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush), George W. Bush, and United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Termination of the national emergency with respect to Sierra Leone and Liberia : communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification to terminate the national emergency with respect to Sierra Leone in Executive Order 13194 of January 18, 2001, and expanded in scope with respect to Liberia by Executive Order 13213 of May 22, 2001, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(a). (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush), George W. Bush, and United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blocking property of certain persons and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from Liberia : message from the President of the United States transmitting a declaration of a national emergency with respect to the threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by certain actions, policies, and circumstances with respect to Liberia, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) 50 U.S.C. 1631. (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush), George W. Bush, and United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Liberia : communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to Liberia is to continue in effect beyond July 22, 2005, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush), George W. Bush, and United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impact of Liberia's election on West Africa : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, February 8, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by Global Human Rights United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Liberia : communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to Liberia is to continue in effect beyond July 22, 2006, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush), George W. Bush, and United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Continuation of the national emergency with respect to the former Liberian regime of Charles Taylor : message from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency and related measures dealing with the former Liberian regime of Charles Taylor is to continue in effect beyond July 22, 2009, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d). (U.S. G.P.O., 2009), by United States. President (2009-2017 : Obama), George W. Bush, and United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent developments in Liberia (U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985), by Chester A. Crocker and United States. Dept. of State. Office of Public Communication. Editorial Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospects for democracy in Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, September 18, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emergency situations in Sudan and Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, November 27, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia and United States policy : hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, December 10, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia, recent developments and United States foreign policy : hearing and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and on Africa, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 367, January 23, 28, 29, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations (page images at HathiTrust)
• US policy in Liberia. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Markup of H. Con. Res. 142 and bloody hands : foreign support for Liberian warlords : markup and hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, June 26, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Liberian elections : a new hope? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, June 24, 1997. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Policy toward Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 2, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. policy in Liberia (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. policy and the crisis in Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, June 19, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ongoing civil war and crisis in Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, November 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Africa revisited : a report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by S. I. Hayakawa and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia and Ghana--policy challenges in West Africa : a staff report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confronting Liberia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, March 14, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joint Resolution Expressing the Sense of the Congress Regarding the Peace Process in Liberia and Authorizing Limited Assistance to Support this Process. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

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