West Africa

==Further reading==
* Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku. ''Themes in West Africa's History'' (2006).
* Brydon, Lynne. "Constructing Avatime: questions of history and identity in a West African polity, c. 1690s to the twentieth century." ''Journal of African History'' 49.1 (2008): 23–42. [https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/files/17533525/Brydon_2008_Journal_of_African_History.pdf online]
* Collins, Robert O. ''African History: Western African History'' (1990).
* Davidson, Basil. ''A History of West Africa, 1000–1800'' (1978), numerous editions
* Delavignette, Robert. ''Freedom and Authority in French West Africa'' (Routledge, 2018).
* Dueppen, Stephen A. "The archaeology of West Africa, ca. 800 BCE to 1500 CE." ''History Compass'' 14.6 (2016): 247–263.
* Edgerton, Robert B. ''The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast'' (2002).
* Fage, J. D. ''A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages'' (2nd ed. 1994); updated in Stanley B. Alpern, ed. ''Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa'' (2006).
* Festus, Jacob et al. eds. ''History of West Africa'' (Vol. 1, 1989).
* Greene, S. E. ''Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana'' (2002).
* Griswold, Wendy. ''Writing African women: Gender, popular culture and literature in West Africa'' (Zed Books Ltd., 2017).
* Ham, Anthony. ''West Africa'' (2013) [https://archive.org/details/westafrica0000hama online].
* Hayward, Derek F., and Julius Oguntoyinbo. ''Climatology of West Africa'' (Routledge, 2019).
* Hopkins, Antony Gerald. ''An economic history of West Africa'' (2014) [https://archive.org/details/economichistoryo0000hopk online].
* Huber, Caroline, Lyn Finelli, and Warren Stevens. "The economic and social burden of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa." ''Journal of infectious diseases 218.Supplement_5'' (2018): S698–S704.
* Kane, Ousmane Oumar, ''Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa'' (2016).
* {{cite journal |last1=Lavallée |first1=Emmanuelle |last2=Roubaud |first2=François |title=Corruption in the Informal Sector: Evidence from West Africa |journal=The Journal of Development Studies |date=3 June 2019 |volume=55 |issue=6 |pages=1067–1080 |doi=10.1080/00220388.2018.1438597 |s2cid=158886041 |url=https://basepub.dauphine.psl.eu/handle/123456789/24991 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Law |first1=Robin |title=Human Sacrifice in Pre-Colonial West Africa |journal=African Affairs |date=1985 |volume=84 |issue=334 |pages=53–87 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097676 |jstor=722523 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Mann |first1=Gregory |title=Locating Colonial Histories: Between France and West Africa |journal=The American Historical Review |date=2005 |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=409–434 |doi=10.1086/ahr/110.2.409 |jstor=10.1086/531320 }}
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* Mazrui, Ali A. ''Islam and the English language in East and West Africa'' (Routledge, 2017).
* Meillassoux, Claude, ed. ''The development of indigenous trade and markets in West Africa: studies presented and discussed at the tenth International African seminar at Fourah Bay college, Freetown, December 1969'' (Routledge, 2018).
* Mendonsa, Eugene L. ''West Africa: An Introduction to Its History'' (2002)
* O'Brien, Donal Cruise, Richard Rathbone, John Dunn, eds. ''Contemporary West African States'' (2002) [https://archive.org/details/contemporarywest00crui online free to borrow]
* {{cite journal |last1=Soares |first1=Benjamin |title=The Historiography of Islam in West Africa: An Anthropologist's View |journal=The Journal of African History |date=March 2014 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=27–36 |doi=10.1017/S0021853713000819 |hdl=1887/25369 |s2cid=162823960 }}
* Tonkin, Elizabeth. ''Narrating our pasts: The social construction of oral history'' (Cambridge university press, 1995), on West Africa
* Westermann, Diedrich, and Margaret Arminel Bryan. ''The Languages of West Africa: Handbook of African Languages'' (Routledge, 2017).