Africa, West -- History
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Africa, West -- History -- 1960-
- Ghana -- History
- Liberia -- History
- Nigeria -- History
- Sierra Leone -- History
- Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History
- History of West Africa
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The Story of West Africa (London: H. Marshall and Son, ca. 1899), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Toyin Falola (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ghana One Year Old: A First Independence Anniversary Review (1958), ed. by Moses Danquah (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- The March to Coomassie (second edition; London: Tinsley Bros., 1874), by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at Google)
- Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa (New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Henry M. Stanley, illust. by Melton Prior (page images at HathiTrust)
- By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War, by G. A. Henty
- Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa (New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Henry M. Stanley, illust. by Melton Prior (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Siege of Kumassi (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901), by Lady Hodgson (page images at Google; US access only)
- Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti, by G. A. Henty, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012), by Linda Kreitzer (PDF at University of Calgary)
- A Concise History of the Commencement, Progress and Present Condition of the American Colonies in Liberia (Washington: Printed at the Madisonian office, 1839), by Samuel Wilkeson
- Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia; With An Appendix, Containing Extracts from His Journal and Other Writings; With a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary (Washington: James C. Dunn, 1835), by Ralph Randolph Gurley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Brawley (Gutenberg text)
- The Liberian Crisis (Washington: American Colonization Society, 1933), by Henry Litchfield West
- U.S. Policies Toward Liberia, Togo, and Zaire: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, June 9, 1993 (1994), by United States Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (2005), ed. by Festus B. Aboagye and Alhaji M. S. Bah (PDF files at issafrica.org)
- A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (2005), ed. by Festus B. Aboagye and Alhaji M. S. Bah (PDF files at issafrica.org)
- Abstract of a Journal of E. Bacon, Assistant Agent of the United States to Africa; With an Appendix, Containing Extracts From Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society in England, for the Years 1819-20; To Which is Prefixed an Abstract of the Journal of the Rev. J. B. Cates, One of the Missionaries From Sierra Leone to Grand Bassa (Philadelphia: S. Potter and Co., 1821), by Ephraim Bacon, contrib. by J. B. Cates
- Three Nigerian Emirates: A Study in Oral History (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by Victor N. Low (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Toyin Falola (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
- Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary, by W. P. Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor of Calabar, by A. J. Bueltman (Gutenberg text)
- The Rise of the Sokoto Fulani: Being a Paraphrase and In Some Parts a Translation of the Infaku'l Maisuri of Sultan Mohammed Bello (1922), by Muḥammad Bello, ed. by E. J. Arnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Rise of the Sokoto Fulani: Being a Paraphrase and In Some Parts a Translation of the Infaku'l Maisuri of Sultan Mohammed Bello (1922), by Muḥammad Bello, ed. by E. J. Arnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation-Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu (PDF at University of Calgary)
- Christians: Why This Muslim Violence? (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v3; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2004), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- 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)
- Christians: Why We Reject Muslim Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v7; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2008), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- Muslims: Why Muslim Sharia Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v6; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2007), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- Christians: Why We Reject Muslim Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v7; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2008), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- Muslims: Why Muslim Sharia Law (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v6; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2007), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- 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)
- Christians: Why This Muslim Violence? (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v3; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2004), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- Muslims: Why the Violence? (Studies in Christian-Muslim Relations v2; Belleville, ON: Essence Publishing, c2004), by Jan H. Boer (with other series volumes: PDF files at socialtheology.com)
- 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)
- No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- A Sailor Boy's Experience Aboard a Slave Ship (originally published 1867; reprinted (without apparent alterations) 1996), by Samuel Robinson
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Africa, West -- Civilization- Der Westafrikanische Kulturkreis (text in German; 1897), by Leo Frobenius
- The British Case in French Congo: The Story of a Great Injustice, its Causes and its Lessons (London: W. Heinemann, 1903), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe (second edition; London: Printed for W. Reeve, G. Woodfall, and J. Barnes, 1750) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- A Pocket Guide to West Africa (1943), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
- Alone in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1912), by Mary Gaunt
- Impressions of Western Africa: With Remarks on the Diseases of the Climate and a Report on the Peculiarities of Trade Up the Rivers in the Bight of Biafra (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858), by Thomas J. Hutchinson (page images at Google)
- In an Elephant Corral, and Other Tales of West African Experiences (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Lost in the Jungle (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper and Brothers, c1867), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Ten Years' Wanderings Among the Ethiopians: With Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Civilized and Uncivilized Tribes, From Senegal to Gaboon (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Thomas J. Hutchinson (page images at Google)
- Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, etc. etc. (second edition; London: G. Routledge, 1840), by James Holman (page images at Google)
- Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, by Richard Francis Burton
- We Two in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Decima Moore and Frederick Gordon Guggisberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by J. Leighton Wilson
- Wild Life Under the Equator, Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Trader Horn: Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn (single volume; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927), by Trader Horn, ed. by Ethelreda Lewis, contrib. by John Galsworthy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journal of an African Cruiser: Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa (London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Horatio Bridge, ed. by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
- Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, Performed in His Majesty's Ships, Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826, Under the Command of Capt. F.W. Owen, R.N. (2 volumes; London; R. Bentley, 1835), by Thomas Boteler
- Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa (London: T. C. Newby, 1869), by Mrs. Henry Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons (unabridged; London and New York: Macmillan, 1897), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons (abridged edition, 1897), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
- West African Studies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- The Advance of Our West African Empire (London: T. F. Unwin, 1903), by C. Braithwaite Wallis
- Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique Occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: Documents Scientifiques (in French; Paris: Société de Géographie, 1920), by G. de Gironcourt
- Two Voyages to Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-2-3, in a Series of Letters (second edition; London: Printed for the author, 1794), by A. M. Falconbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
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