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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. 

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CoverTitlePublisherAuthor (Last)
Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo history and cultureOxford University PressAfigbo
The Quills Of The Porcupine: Asante Nationalism In An Emergent GhanaUniversity of Wisconsin PressAllman
I Will Not Eat Stone: A Women's History of Colonial Asante (Social History of Africa)HeinemannAllman
Ivory & Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing patterns of international trade to the later nineteenth centuryHeinemannAlpers
Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity among the Tswana of Southern AfricaYale University PressAlverson
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of CultureOxford University PressAppiah
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South AfricaUniversity of Chicago PressAshforth
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) editionHenry Holy & Co (Macmillan)Atkinson
I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women, and the Past in a Yoruba TownSmithsonianBarber
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in TheaterIndiana University PressBarber
Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003 (Eastern African Studies)Ohio University PressBantebya-Kyomuhendo
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade (African Studies)Cambridge University PressBarry
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial SenegambiaOxford University PressBaum
Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of DahomeyUniversity of Virginia PressBay
Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (African Systems of Thought)Indiana University PressBeidelman
Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia (Eastern Africa Series)James CurreyBekele
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian WomanPrinceton University PressBelcher
Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya & Africa, Book 2: Violence & Ethnicity (Eastern African Studies) (Book II)Ohio University PressBerman
Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba CommunityUniversity of California PressBerry
No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan AfricaUniversity of Wisconsin PressBerry
Education and Empowered Citizenship in MaliJohns Hopkins University PressBleck
Tiv economyNorthwestern University PressBohannan
A Taste of Freedom: The ICU in Rural South Africa, 1924-1930Raven PressBradford
Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania (New African Histories)Ohio University PressBrennan
Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power, and Schooling in a West AfricanIndiana University PressBrenner
The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry (Perspectives on Southern Africa)University of California PressBundy
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 PressCarter (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 PressCarter (ed.)
From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964., Vol. 3: Challenge and Violence, 1953-1964Hoover Institution PressCarter (ed.)
Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers Under French RuleUniversity of California PressCelik
Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Classics of African Studies Series)HeinemannChanock
Womunafu's Bunafu: A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community (Princeton Legacy Library)Princeton University PressCohen
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South AfricaUniversity of Chicago PressComaroff
Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989 (Social History of Africa)HeinemannCooper, B.
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (African Systems of Thought)Indiana University PressCooper, B.
Plantation slavery on the east coast of Africa (Yale historical publications : Miscellany)Yale University PressCooper, F.
From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925Yale University PressCooper, F.
Decolonization & African Society (African Studies)Cambridge University PressCooper, F.
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960Princeton University PressCooper, F.
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa; Senegambia in the Era of the Slave TradeUniversity of Wisconsin PressCurtin
Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720: A Study of the African Reaction to European TradeClarendon PressDaaku
Modern Africa: A Social and Political HistoryRoutledgeDavidson
A Lion Amongst the Cattle (Social History of Africa)HeinemannDelius
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 PressDelius
Tradition and Modernization: A Challenge for Law Among the Dinka of the SudanYale University PressDeng
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or RealityN/ADiop
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaOxford University PressDiouf
Gender Terrains in African CinemaN/ADipio

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