Written during the 1930s, this travelogue is a critique of colonial rule and the devastating impact of missionaries in West Africa. 291pp, UK. ELAND, 0907871186

A survey of the society, history, ritual and civilisation of the Dogon of Mali and Burkina Faso. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919765

A collection of Paul E. Lovejoy's key works on the economic and social history of West Africa, exploring the organisation of trade and production in the interior of West Africa, specifically the regions of modern Nigeria, Niger, Benin, and Ghana in their pre-colonial eras, when Muslim merchants and entrepreneurs dominated economy and society. The essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the functioning of the internal social and economic structures of African countries during the time of the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trades. Index, bib, gloss, 407pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

A survey of the society, history, politics and daily life of the Ejagham south-western Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919935

A survey of the society, religion and history of the Ewe of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

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A survey of the society, history, art and recent political history of the Fang Kuba of Equitorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919943

A survey of the people and the land, social life and customs and worldview of the Fulani of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 082391982X

A survey of the society, worldview, religion and philosophy of the Gbaya of the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919951

A survey of the politics, economics and customs of the Hausa of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919838

A survey of the people, the land, society and customs of the Malinke of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 082391979X

Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa either in absence of, or alongside, formal schools, to prepare children for the wide range of economic and political roles now available to them in adult society. Drawing on her work in West Africa and with West Africans in London, she shows that among many groups it is common practice to send children to grow up away from home. 350pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

French language ethnography which describes the kinship systems, the rites surrounding birth, marriage and death, and the power structures of the Peul people of West Africa. The author is himself a Peul and writes about the daily customs of this important African group without the screen of theoretical language. Glossary, index, 188pp, French text. FRANCE. SEPIA, 2907888218

A survey of the history, religion, economy and society of the Songhay of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919862

A survey of the society, the land, history, traditions and customs of the Soninke of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919781

Money, or wari as it is commonly known across the Mande region, matters and it matters in complex and important ways. The chapters draw on extensive field research in the region to offer theoretically compelling and ethnographically nuanced perspectives on the practical and conceptual integration of currency into the lives of contemporary West African people. 218pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

A survey of the origins, history and religion as well as the literature and the arts of the Wolof of Senegal and the Gambia. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 0823919870