This list of titles has been curated by leading scholars and societies working in African Studies. These works are critical to the development of scholarship in their subject and are highly cited by their peers.
The Third Chapter Project, Inc. is an Amazon Associate. A percentage of each purchase goes to support Third Chapter’s mission! We are aiming to create affiliate relationships with the publishers to support the outstanding work of independent and university presses around the globe. If you have any questions about becoming an affiliate partner with Third Chapter, email info@thirdchapter.org.
| Cover | Title | Publisher | Author (Last) |
  | Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo history and culture | Oxford University Press | Afigbo |
  | The Quills Of The Porcupine: Asante Nationalism In An Emergent Ghana | University of Wisconsin Press | Allman |
  | I Will Not Eat Stone: A Women's History of Colonial Asante (Social History of Africa) | Heinemann | Allman |
  | Ivory & Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing patterns of international trade to the later nineteenth century | Heinemann | Alpers |
  | Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity among the Tswana of Southern Africa | Yale University Press | Alverson |
  | In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture | Oxford University Press | Appiah |
  | Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa | University of Chicago Press | Ashforth |
  | The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900 (Social History of Africa) | James Curry(Boydell & Brewer) | Atkins |
  | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy 1st (first) edition | Henry Holy & Co (Macmillan) | Atkinson |
  | I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women, and the Past in a Yoruba Town | Smithsonian | Barber |
  | The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater | Indiana University Press | Barber |
  | Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003 (Eastern African Studies) | Ohio University Press | Bantebya-Kyomuhendo |
  | Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade (African Studies) | Cambridge University Press | Barry |
  | Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia | Oxford University Press | Baum |
  | Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey | University of Virginia Press | Bay |
  | Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (African Systems of Thought) | Indiana University Press | Beidelman |
  | Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia (Eastern Africa Series) | James Currey | Bekele |
  | The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman | Princeton University Press | Belcher |
  | Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya & Africa, Book 2: Violence & Ethnicity (Eastern African Studies) (Book II) | Ohio University Press | Berman |
  | Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community | University of California Press | Berry |
  | No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa | University of Wisconsin Press | Berry |
  | Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali | Johns Hopkins University Press | Bleck |
  | Tiv economy | Northwestern University Press | Bohannan |
  | A Taste of Freedom: The ICU in Rural South Africa, 1924-1930 | Raven Press | Bradford |
  | Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania (New African Histories) | Ohio University Press | Brennan |
  | Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power, and Schooling in a West African | Indiana University Press | Brenner |
  | The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry (Perspectives on Southern Africa) | University of California Press | Bundy |
  | From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964, Vol. 1: Protest and Hope, 1882-1934 (Hoover Institution Press Publication Book 89) | Hoover Institution Press | Carter (ed.) |
  | From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 2: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964: Hope and Challenge, 1935-1952 (Hoover Institution Press Publication) | Hoover Institution Press | Carter (ed.) |
  | From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964., Vol. 3: Challenge and Violence, 1953-1964 | Hoover Institution Press | Carter (ed.) |
  | Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French Rule | University of California Press | Celik
|
  | Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Classics of African Studies Series) | Heinemann | Chanock |
  | Womunafu's Bunafu: A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community (Princeton Legacy Library) | Princeton University Press | Cohen |
  | Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa | University of Chicago Press | Comaroff |
  | Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989 (Social History of Africa) | Heinemann | Cooper, B. |
  | Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (African Systems of Thought) | Indiana University Press | Cooper, B. |
  | Plantation slavery on the east coast of Africa (Yale historical publications : Miscellany) | Yale University Press | Cooper, F. |
  | From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 | Yale University Press | Cooper, F. |
  | Decolonization & African Society (African Studies) | Cambridge University Press | Cooper, F. |
  | Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 | Princeton University Press | Cooper, F. |
  | Economic Change in Precolonial Africa; Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade | University of Wisconsin Press | Curtin |
  | Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720: A Study of the African Reaction to European Trade | Clarendon Press | Daaku |
  | Modern Africa: A Social and Political History | Routledge | Davidson |
  | A Lion Amongst the Cattle (Social History of Africa) | Heinemann | Delius |
  | Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Transvaal (Perspectives on Southern Africa, 35) | University of California Press | Delius |
  | Tradition and Modernization: A Challenge for Law Among the Dinka of the Sudan | Yale University Press | Deng |
  | The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality | N/A | Diop |
  | Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America | Oxford University Press | Diouf |
  | Gender Terrains in African Cinema | N/A | Dipio |
