African Studies Reading Room

About the Collection

This special non-circulating collection on African history and the humanities is located on the 6th floor of Butler Library, opposite the elevators on the east side of the building. Since its grand opening in December 2003, the African Studies Reading Room collection has continued to grow slowly and will eventually reach full capacity at 6,200 volumes.

The advanced or novice scholar is invited to browse the books and to be immersed in a quiet and intellectually inspiring context. Announcements about library resources, literary and other major current events—local and international—are posted on a regular basis in the room.

On the shelves, one can find an array of selected African studies reference titles standing alongside hundreds of great works of African literature, collected historical documents from Africa, classic ethnographies and travellers' accounts, written transcriptions of Africa's oral heritage—history, epic poetry, folktales, songs, and proverbs—and major contributions in the interpretation of Africa's past and present and of the African diasporas' engagement with the continent.

Many of the titles selected are winners of prizes such as the Melville J. Herskovits Award for the Best Book on Africa awarded every year by the African Studies Association of the United States; Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century issued in 2002 ; as well as The Nobel Prize for Literature and The Man Booker Prize.

The collection includes a representative sample of Africa's literature and history written in African languages, such as Hausa, Igbo, Bamanan, Mandinka, Pulaar/Fulfulde, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, and Zulu ; with the corresponding African language/English dictionaries. There are also some works in Arabic, but most are in English, French, or Portuguese, and a small number in German.

Also on offer are the Annual Papers of the African Literature Association and other Africana conference proceedings, seminal works on African art, music, and film --including publications from the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), as well as back issues of some of the most important humanities journals published in Africa or by Africans during the twentieth century, such as Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (Dakar), Transition (Kampala), Odu (Ibadan), Black Orpheus (Ibadan), and Présence africaine (Paris). In addition, you will find the back issues of key African studies journals published in North America and the UK, including African Affairs, African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Journal of African History, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Munger Africana Library notes.

Sample Acquisitions from 2006-2019

Abdilatif Abdalla : poet in politics. Edited by Rose Marie Beck and Kai Kresse. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd, [2016]
Achebe, Chinua. There was a country: a personal history of Biafra.
New York: Penguin Press, 2012.
Acteurs du livre au Togo : auteurs, éditeurs, imprimeurs, critiques, libraries, bibiothèques: avec un panorama de la littérature togolaise. Lomé: Graines de Pensées, c2009.
Adebajo, Adekeye. The eagle and the springbok : essays on Nigeria and South Africa. Auckland Park, South Africa : Fanele, an imprint of Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, c2017.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. [A novel]
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a yellow sun. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. [A novel]
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The thing around your neck. Short stories. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Afolabi, Segun. Goodbye Lucille. London: Vintage Books, 2008. [A novel]
Africa : an encyclopedia of culture and society. 3 vols. Edited by Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016.
Africa and trans-Atlantic memories : literary and aesthetic manifestations of diaspora and history. Edited by Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David V. Trotman. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.
Africa and World War II. Edited by Judith Byfield, Carolyn A. Brown, Timothy Parsons, and Ahmad Sikainga. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Africa in Florida : five hundred years of African presence in the Sunshine State. Edited by Amanda B. Carlson and Robin Poynor. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace laureates of African descent. Edited by Adekeye Adebajo. London : Zed Books, 2014.
African diaspora literacy : the heart of transformation in K-12 schools and teacher education. Edited by Lamar L. Johnson, Gloria Boutte, Gwenda Greene, and Dywanna Smith. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
African history through sources. v. 1--. Compiled by Nancy J. Jacobs. New York : Cambridge University Press, [2014-]
African kingdoms : an encyclopedia of empires and civilizations. Edited by Saheed Aderinto. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
African muckraking : 75 years of investigative journalism from Africa. Edited by Anya Schiffrin with George Lugalambi. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2017.
African violet : and other stories : the Caine Prize for African writing 2012. Oxford : New Internationalist, 2012.
Africans in global migration : searching for promised lands. Edited by John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang, Thomas Owusu. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
Afropolis : city media art. Edited by Kerstin Pinther, Larissa Förster, Christian Hanussek. Auckland Park : Jacana, 2012.
Akan peoples in Africa and the Diaspora. 2 vols. Edited by Kwasi Konadu. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, 2014.
Alagoa, Ebiegberi Joe. Festac remembered: cultural intolerance in the Nigerian Nation. Lagos [Nigeria]: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, 2007.
Alpers, Edward A. East Africa and the Indian Ocean. Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2009.
Ancient Nubia : African kingdoms on the Nile. Edited by Majorie M. Fisher...[et al.] ; with photographs by Chester Higgins Jr. Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2012.
The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system. Edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Atta, Sefi. News from home : short stories. Slough, UK : Lubin and Kleyner, 2009.
Autesserre, Séverine. Peaceland : conflict resolution and the everyday politics of international intervention. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Autesserre, Séverine. The trouble with the Congo: local violence and the failure of international peacebuilding. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Bāmbā, Aḥmadū. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba : selected poems. Edited with an introduction, commentary, and notes by Sana Camara. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Bamgboṣe, Ayọ. Beyond linguistics and multilingualism in Nigeria. Edited by Duro Adeleke. Ibadan, Nigeria : DB Martoy Books, 2017.
Barker-Benfield, G. J. Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom : history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution. New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Baum, Robert M. West Africa's women of God : Alinesitoué and the Diola prophetic tradition. Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Black Europe and the African diaspora. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Trica Danielle Keaton, and Stephen Small. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Black Orwell : essays on the scholarship of Ali A. Mazrui. Edited by Seifudein Adem and Kimani Njogu. Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2018].
Blyden, Nemata Amelia. African Americans and Africa : a new history. New Haven, Yale University Press, [2019].
Boggs, Richard. Becoming plural : a tale of two Sudans. Reading, Berkshire : Garnet, c2013.
Branch, Adam. Displacing human rights: war and intervention in northern Uganda. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, c2011.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We need new names. London : Chatto & Windus, 2013. [A novel]
The Cambridge companion to the African novel. Edited by F. Abiola Irele. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Campbell, Penelope. Africare : Black American philanthropy in Africa. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.
Carney, Judith Ann and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. In the shadow of slavery: Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c2009.
Carpentier, Alejo. ¡Écue-yamba-ó!. Madrid : Akal, 2010. [A novel]
Cartooning in Africa. Edited by John A. Lent. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, c2009.
Casely-Hayford, Gus. The lost kingdoms of Africa. London: Bantam Press, 2012.
Césaire, Aimé. Nawetu deret. Wolof translation of: Saison au Congo. Ci tekkim, Boubacar Boris Diop. [Paris] : Céytu, [2016]
Césaire, Aimé. Poésie, théâtre, essais et discours. [coordinateur, Albert James Arnold]. Paris : CNRS : Présence africaine, c2013.
Chinodya, Shimmer. Strife. Harare: Weaver Press, 2006. [A novel]
Christiansë, Yvette. Unconfessed. New York : Other Press, c2007. [A novel.]
Cissé, Momar. Parole chantée et communication sociale chez les Wolof du Sénégal. Paris: Harmattan, c2009.
Cole, Teju. Every day is for the thief : fiction. New York : Random House, [2014]
Cole, Teju. Known and strange things : essays. New York : Random House, [2016]
A companion to African history. Edited by William Worger, Charles Ambler, Nwando Achebe. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019
Cooper, Frederick. Citizenship between empire and nation : remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Corbould, Clare. Becoming African Americans: Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Critical terms for the study of Africa. Edited by Gaurav Desai and Adeline Masquelier. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Currey, James. Africa writes back: the African writers series & the launch of African literature. Oxford: James Currey; Johannesburg: Wits University Press ; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008.
Datas e documentos de história da FRELIMO: de 1960 a 1975--ano da independência de Moçambique. Edited by Armando Pedro Muiuane Jr. Maputo: CIEDIMA, SARL, 2006.
Decolonizing the university, knowledge systems and disciplines in Africa. Edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Siphamandla Zondi. Durham : Carolina Academic Press, [2016].
Dedan Kimathi on trial : colonial justice and popular memory in Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Edited by Julie MacArthur. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017].
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir. The ink of the scholars : reflections on philosophy in Africa. Translated from French by Jonathan Adjemian. Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2016].
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir. Léopold Sédar Senghor: l'art africain comme philosophie. Paris: Riveneuve éditions, c2007.
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir. Open to reason : Muslim philosophers in conversation with the Western tradition. Translated by Jonathan Adjemian. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Diawara, Manthia. African film: new forms of aesthetics and politics. Munich; New York: Prestel, c2010.
Diop, Papa Momar. Guide des archives du Sénégal colonial. Paris: L'Harmattan, c2011.
Diouf, Sylviane A. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Diouf, Sylviane A. Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons. New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Directory of world cinema. Africa. Edited by Blandine Stefanson and Sheila Petty. Bristol, UK : Intellect Books, 2014.
Dlamini, Jacob. Askari : a story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2014.
Documenting the Ethiopian student movement: an exercise in oral history. Edited by Bahru Zewde. Addis Ababa: Forum for Social Studies, c2010.
Dudziak, Mary L. Exporting American dreams : Thurgood Marshall's African journey. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Early maritime cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean : papers from a conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 23-24 October 2015. Edited by Akshay Sarathi. Oxford : Archaeopress Access Archaeology, 2018.
Emergent themes and methods in African studies: essays in honor of Adiele E. Afigbo. Edited by Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2009.
Emerging perspectives on Yvonne Vera. Edited by Helen Cousins and Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2012.
Empire and the Nuer : sources on the pacification of the Southern Sudan, 1898-1930. Edited by Douglas H. Johnson. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2016.
Encyclopedia of African colonial conflicts. 2 vols. Edited by Timothy J. Stapleton. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
L'épopée bambara de Ségou. Recueillié et traduite par Lilyan Kesteloot ; avec la collaboration d'Amadou Traoré, de Jean-Baptiste Traoré et d'Amadou Hampâté Ba. Paris : Harmattan; Orizons, 2010 [orig. pub. in 1993].
Fair, Laura. Historia ya Jamii ya Zanzibar na nyimbo za Siti Binti Saad. Nairobi, Kenya : Twaweza Communications, 2013.
Fair, Laura. Reel pleasures : cinema audiences and entrepreneurs in twentieth-century urban Tanzania. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018].
Ferreira, Roquinaldo Amaral. Cross-cultural exchange in the Atlantic world : Angola and Brazil during the era of the slave trade. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Field, Roger. Alex la Guma: a literary & political biography. Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2010.
Fletcher, Catherine. The Black Prince of Florence: the spectacular life and treacherous world of Alessandro de' Medici. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2016]
Gadjigo, Samba. Ousmane Sembène: the making of a militant artist ; translated by Moustapha Diop. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Gaines, Kevin Kelly. American Africans in Ghana: Black expatriates and the civil rights era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 100 amazing facts about the Negro. New York : Pantheon Books, [2017].
George, Abosede A. Making modern girls : a history of girlhood, labor, and social development in colonial Lagos. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
George Padmore: pan-African revolutionary. Edited by Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis. Kingston, Jamaica; Miami, Florida, USA: Ian Randle Publishers, 2009.
Getahun, Solomon Addis. The history of Ethiopian immigrants and refugees in America, 1900-2000: patterns of migration, survival, and adjustment. New York: LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2007.
Getatchew Haile...[et al.] Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project. Eugene, Or.: Pickwick Publications, 2009-
Getz, Trevor R. A primer for teaching African history : ten design principles. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Gikandi, Simon. Slavery and the culture of taste. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2011.
Gikandi, Simon and Evan Mwangi. The Columbia guide to East African literature in English since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, c2007.
Gilroy, Paul. Black Britain : a photographic history. London: Saqi in association with GettyImages, 2007.
Githiora, Chege J. Afro-Mexicans : discourse of race and identity in the African diaspora. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.
Gnaoulé-Oupoh, B. Dictionnaire des romans ivoiriens. Paris : Harmattan, c2012.
Gomez, Michael A. African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
The Granta book of the African short story. Edited and with an introduction by Helon Habila. London : Granta, 2012.
Green, Toby. The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Gueye, Abdoulaye. Aux nègres de France: la patrie non reconnaissante. Achères, France: Dagan, c2010.
Guillén, Nicolás. ¡Aquí estamos! : el negro en la obra de Nicolás Guillén. Compilación de Denia García Ronda. La Habana : Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2008.
Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Habila, Helon. Oil on water : a novel. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
Hall, Bruce S. A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
The handbook of civil society in Africa. Edited by Ebenezer Obadare. New York : Springer, [2014].
Harsch, Ernest. Burkina Faso : a history of power, protest and revolution. London : Zed Books Ltd., 2017.
Hassen, Mohammed. The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia : 1300-1700. Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2015.
Hatzky, Christine. Cubans in Angola : South-South cooperation and transfer of knowledge, 1976-1991. Translated from the German. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]
Haynes, Jonathan. Nollywood : the creation of Nigerian film genres. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Heywood, Linda M. Njinga of Angola : Africa's warrior queen. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Heywood, Linda M. and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Hirji, Karim F. The enduring relevance of Walter Rodney's How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyota, 2017.
History of the Urhobo people of Niger Delta. Edited by Peter P. Ekeh. Buffalo, N.Y.: Urhobo Historical Society, 2007.
Homecoming : sixty years of Egyptian short stories. Selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2012.
A house with two rooms : final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia Diaspora Project. Saint Paul, Minn. : DRI Press, c2009.
Human rights NGOs in East Africa: political and normative tensions. Edited by Makau Mutua. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
Hunwick, John O. and Alida Jay Boye. The hidden treasures of Timbuktu : historic city of Islamic Africa. [Photography by Joseph Hunwick] London : Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo". Edited by Deborah G. Plant. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Hutchinson, Thomas J. 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. [Charleston, SC] : Nabu Press, [2011] Originally published in 1858.
Idrīs, Yūsuf. Tales of encounter : three Egyptian novellas. Translated by Rasheed El-Enany. Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, 2012.
Ikime, Obaro. Can anything good come out of history? : lectures and papers on Nigerian history. Ibadan, Nigeria : Bookcraft, [2018].
Ilahiane, Hsain. Historical dictionary of the Berbers (imazighen). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2006.
The image of the Black in African and Asian art. Ed. by David Bindman, Suzanne Preston Blier, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : In collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, 2017.
Irele, Abiola. The negritude moment : explorations in francophone African and Caribbean literature and thought. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011.
Jansen, Jan. Entretiens avec Bala Kanté: une chronique du Manding du XXème siècle. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006.
Jambula tree: a selection of works from the Caine Prize for African Writing. Oxford: New Internationalist Publications; Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2008.
James, Leslie. George Padmore and decolonization from below : pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the end of empire. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
James, Winston. The struggles of John Brown Russwurm : the life and writings of a pan-Africanist pioneer, 1799-1851. New York : New York University Press, 2010.
Jennings, La Vinia Delois. Toni Morrison and the idea of Africa. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Jeune Afrique, 50 ans : une histoire de l'Afrique. [ouvrage dirigé par Jean-Louis Gouraud et Dominique Mataillet]. Paris : La Martinière, c2013.
Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen. This child will be great : memoir of a remarkable life by Africa's first woman president. New York : Harper, 2009.
Joseph, Peniel E. Stokely : a life. New York : Basic Civitas, a member of the Perseus Book Club, 2014.
Kane, Ousmane. Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Kane, Ousmane. The homeland is the arena: religion, transnationalism, and the integration of Senegalese immigrants in America. New York: Oxford University Press, c2011.
Kéita, Aoua. Femme d'Afrique : la vie d'Aoua Kéita racontée par elle-même. Paris : Présence africaine, c2014.
Kelley, Robin D. G. Africa speaks, America answers : modern jazz in revolutionary times. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. An evening with Tom Mboya: speeches, lectures, and remarks from prominent personalities: an advocacy and lobbying strategy. Nairobi: KNCHR, 2006.
Kesteloot, Lilyan and Andrée-Marie Diagne. Précis de littérature africaine et antillaise: histoire, auteurs et œuvres. Dakar: IFAN-CAD & FASTEF, [2010]
Kiputiputi, Omari M. Kamusi sanifu ya kompyuta. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2011.
Knowledge in practice : expertise and the transmission of knowledge. Edited by Kai Kresse and Trevor H.J. Marchand. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2009.
Konadu, Kwasi. The Akan diaspora in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Kresse, Kai. Philosophising in Mombasa : knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, c2007.
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past : essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. Edited by Toby Green and Benedetta Rossi. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Larkin, Brian. Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
LeRiche, Matthew and Matthew Arnold. South Sudan: from revolution to independence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Limb, Peter. The ANC's early years: nation, class and place in South Africa before 1940. Pretoria, South Africa: Unisa Press, c2010.
Lindsay, Lisa A. Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Lusaka punk and other stories : the Caine Prize for African Writing 2015. Bulawayo : AmaBooks Publishers, 2015.
Lydon, Ghislaine. On Trans-Saharan trails: Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: a memoir. New York: Knopf, 2006.
Mabanckou, Alain. Lettres noires : des ténèbres à la lumière. Paris : Collège de France : Fayard, [2016]
Mabanckou, Alain. Mémoires de porc-épic: roman. Paris: Seuil, c2006.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Define and rule: native as political identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviors and survivors: Darfur, politics, and the War on terror. New York: Pantheon Books, c2009.
Mandela, Nelson. 'Let freedom reign' : the words of Nelson Mandela; Henry Russell ; foreword by André Brink. London : New Holland, 2010.
Manghezi, Nadja. The Maputo connection: the ANC in the world of Frelimo. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2009.
Mann, Gregory. From empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel : the road to nongovernmentality. New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Mann, Kristin. Slavery and the birth of an African city: Lagos, 1760-1900. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2007.
Marshall, Paule. Triangular road: a memoir. New York: BasicCivitas Books, c2009.
Martin, Denis-Constant. Sounding the cape : music, identity and politics in South Africa. Somerset West, South Africa : African Minds, [2013]
Matar, Hisham. Anatomy of a disappearance. Toronto ; New York : Hamish Hamilton Canada/Penguin Group, 2011. [A novel]
Matar, Hisham. In the country of men. New York, N.Y. : Dial Press, c2006. [A novel]
Mazrui, Al-Amin Bin Ali. Guidance (Uwongozi) : selections from the first Swahili Islamic newspaper. Translated by Kai Kresse, Hassan Mwakimako ; Introduced and edited by Kai Kresse. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
McKay, Claude. Amiable with big teeth : a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem. Edited with an introduction by Jean-Christophe Cloutier and Brent Hayes Edwards. New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
Mda, Zakes. Sculptors of Mapungubwe. London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2013.
Mda, Zakes. Sometimes there is a void : memoirs of an outsider. Johannesburg : Penguin Books (South Africa), 2011.
The meanings of Timbuktu. Edited by Samil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Cape Town: HSRC Press in association with CODESRIA, 2008.
A memory this size and other stories : the Caine Prize for African writing 2013. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media ; Oxford : New Internationalist, 2013.
Modibo Keita : discours et interventions : edition du Centenaire de la naissance du President
(4 juin 1915--4 juin 2015). Sous la direction de: Amadou Seydou Traoré dit Amadou Djikoroni. Bamako : La Ruche à livres, juin 2015.
Mohamed, Said Ahmed. He's far too much. Translated from the Kiswahili by Sara Weschler and Niwaeli Kimambo. Rhinebeck, NY : The Sheep Meadow Press, [2013]
Mokoena, Hlonipha. Magema Fuze: the making of a kholwa intellectual. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.
Morrison, Toni. What moves at the margin : selected nonfiction. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
Mourre, Martin. Thiaroye 1944 : histoire et mémoire d'un massacre colonial. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, [2017].
Mozambique-Réunion: esclavages, mémoire et patrimoines dans l'océan Indien: actes des conférences du deuxième Festival de L'Ile de Mozambique, les 25 et 26 juin 2004. Edited by Séverine Cachat. Saint-Maur-des-Fossés: Sépia, c2008.
Mqhayi, S.E.K. Abantu besizwe: historical and biographical writings, 1902-1944. Edited and translated by Jeff Opland. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2009.
Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni. Sounds of a cowhide drum = Imisindo Yesigubhu Sesikhumba Senkomo. [Bilingual ed. in English & Zulu] Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2012. [Poetry]
Mudimbe, V. Y. On African fault lines : meditations on alterity politics. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013.
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ. The rise of the African novel : politics of language, identity, and ownership. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Murphy, David. The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 : contexts and legacies. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Ndebele, Njabulo S. Rediscovery of the ordinary: essays on South African literature and culture. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006. [Originally published in 1991.]
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. Coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa : myths of decolonization. Dakar : Codesria, c2013.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. Do 'Zimbabweans' exist?: trajectories of nationalism, national identity formation and crisis in a postcolonial state. New York: Peter Lang, c2009.
Negro : anthology. Edited by Nancy Cunard, 1934 ; facsimilé, introduction et notices biographiques de Sarah Frioux-Salgas. Paris : Nouvelles Éditions Place, [2018]. Originally published in 1934.
Nelson Mandela: the authorised comic book. Nelson Mandela Foundation with Umlando Wezithombe. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2008.
New encyclopedia of Africa. John Middleton, editor in chief; edited by Joseph C. Miller. 5 vols. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2008.
New perspectives on Islam in Senegal: conversion, migration, wealth, power, and femininity. Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio. Edited by Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole. New York: Peter Lang, c2006.
New writing from Africa 2009 : original short stories by African writers, selected by the South African Centre of International PEN. Cape Town [South Africa] : Johnson & KingJames Books, 2009.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening. New York : The New Press, c2016.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. In the name of the mother : reflections on writers & empire. Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2013.
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