New York: International Publishers, (1971). Among the contributors are Oliver Tambo, Dennis Brutus, and Breyten Breytenbach. Introduction by La Guma. Includes poetry and essays. References at the end of each selection. 245 pp.

New York: Walker, (1962). Includes chapters on African prehistory, the formation of societies and their way of life, the empires of the western Sudan, the hegemonies of the central Sudan, the Sudanese States of the Peuls or Fulbe, the states and principalities of the coast and Ethiopia. Translated from the French by Francis Huxley. Includes maps, bibliography, index. 138 pp.

Chicago: Contemporary Books Inc., (1988). Hardcover first edition - A very personal account of what it was like to be a white activist again apartheid in South Africa. "Despite a shielded, middle-class upbringing in Johannesburg, Levine nevertheless became aware of the malignant effects of apartheid when she was still young; as the police and military imprisoned, tortured, banished and shot thousands of blacks, she became an active opponent of the regime, she notes. Eventually, as a city councilor and newspaper columnist, she was able to criticize and focus media attention on the government's policies and their effects." Foreword by Carolyn Forche. Illustrated with photographs. xvi, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-809245442.

London: Penguin, (1975). "Changing Traditional Societies in the Modern World" - a study of the effects of the modern world on the traditional societies of West Africa, including the growth of the educated elite. A title in the Penguin African Library, edited by Ronald Segal. Maps. References. index. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-140410228.

New York: Carnot USA Books, 2003. SIGNED first edition - A controversial work by this Moroccan born African scholar, one which focuses on "the failure of the West to take into account the continent's ethnic realities. . . . His book describes a seven-step process leading to a redesign of the borders inherited from the colonial era and a healthy recognition of the ethnic realities that are tearing Africa apart." SIGNED on the half title page and dated in Los Angeles in May 2003 - that is, before publication. Translated and adapted by Tom Clegg. Map, index, footnotes. 225 pp.

New York: Norton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'Politics in Ex-British Africa.' A title in the Comparative Modern Governments series. Suggestions for further reading, index. Map. xx, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-393055167.

New York: Norton, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'Politics in Ex-British Africa.' A title in the Comparative Modern Governments series. Suggestions for further reading, index. Map. xx, 236 pp. ISBN: 0-393055167.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. cj. Hardcover first edition - In June 1960, the former Belgian Congo won its independence; on January 17. 1961, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered. This is a biography of this man who was largely self-educated and how he became a powerful force in the Congo's struggle for self-government - and who became a symbol of liberty throughout Africa after his murder. Inrtroduction by Herbert F. Weiss. Photographs, map, bibliography, index. xi, 202 pp. Map endpapers.

London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume One only - but each tribal section is complete in itself. As noted in the preface, they are the result of five years of collecting reports on fifty non-Muslim tribes in northern Nigeria. Includes significant information on traveling in the area, on the different languages, and the customs of the various tribes. This volume includes studies of The Bachama and Mbula, Bura and Pabir Tribes, the Bata speaking peoples, the Kilba and Margi of Adamawa, the Chamba, the Verre, the Mambila and others. Vocabulary at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with 60 photographic plates, folding map tipped in at rear. x, 582 pp.

New York: Praeger, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a man born into the the ruling family and destined to be the chief of his village in French Guinea, West Africa, but who instead came to the United States where he had a distinguished career as a musician, writer, actor and lecturer. This book focuses on revealing an African value system rooted in brotherly love, communal responsibility, and harmony with nature. Foreword by Peter B. Hammond. viii, 179 pp

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887. Hardcover first edition - A book which attempts to rectify the idea that most of Africa is nothing but "bush." Includes several appendices, index to the economic plants and a general index. vi, 533 pp plus a 32 pp publisher's catalogue.

London: Institute of Race Relations and Central Asian Research Center / Oxford University Press , 1964. A look at Soviet aims, attitudes and a significant section on African Studies in Soviet Russia. Includes a 50 pp appendix on Soviet views on Africa, country by country, showing the political forces, the economy and foreign policy for each country. Map, vii, 124 pp.

London: Institute of Race Relations / Oxford University Press, 1965. First edition - Bechuanaland was one of the United Kingdom's three High Commission Territories, and its location made it a warring ground for different ideologies. vii, Map, 114 pp plus 5 charts.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brief biographies of nine men who "did well by their countries" from Arabi, the father of modern Egypt, to Said who built up Zanzibar, Chaka who built the Zulu nation, and others. Includes 16 plates and 4 maps, and a list of principal dates. Index. xiv, 174 pp.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1970). Hardcover first edition - An account of the scramble during the 19th century by European countries for control in Africa, with an emphasis on South Africa where the struggle was the sharpest and the stakes highest. Includes a table of principal events in South Africa, illustrated with photographs and maps, bibliography, index. 454 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-094569509.

Nairobi, Kampala & Dar Es Salaam: East African Literature Bureau, (1975). First edition - An overview of more than 500 years of history from the early settlers of the coast through the invasions of the Arabs and the Portuguese to the final settlement of the British from 1850-1900. Maps. Bibliography. xiv, 104 pp.

Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1977. First edition - A Special Issue of the Kenya Historical Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1977 with twelve articles on the topic, and an introduction by Bethwell A. Ogot. Slightly oversized trade paperback. pp 169-403.

Nairobi: East African Publishing House and Longman Kenya, (1969). A book in which eighteen leading scholars, including the two editors, have combined to produce an authoritative and up-to-date assessment of the last two thousand years in East Africa, covering both social and economic developments and discussing the varied methods of research in use by historians in East Africa. Among the contributors are Edward Alpers, Norman Bennett, John Iliffe, Ali Mazrui and more. Introduction by Ogot and Kiernan. Maps, charts, suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay. Index, 407 pp. ISBN: 0-582602726.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, (1975). A book which focuses on "the enormous changes - political, social and economic - that took place during the period 500 B.C.-A.D. 1400 all over the African continent. Early chapters describe conditions about 500 B.C. when North Africa is already in the Bronze Age, Middle Africa is engaged in Stone Age farming and south of the Sahara most men live by hunting and gathering food. Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1000 life in settled communities becomes normal throughout the continent. Finally, the Iron Age sees the rise of state systems, the development of long-distance trade and the spread of Islam and Monophysite Christianity." Illustrated with maps, photographs and figures. Suggestions for further reading, index. xi, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-521099005.

Nairobi: Oxford University Press, (1967). Covers the Stone Age, the peopling of the land and the history A.D. 100 - 1840. Maps and photographs. x, 211 pp.

London: Penguin, (1962). A concise, one-volume history of Africa from earliest pre-history to the Pan African congresses. Maps, index. 280 pp. plus publisher's ads. A title in the Penguin African Library.

London: Allison & Busby, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by a Soweto music teacher, active in the promotion of Black culture and in opposition to apartheid, of the 281 days he was held, without trial, as a political prisoner in South Africa (271 of these days in solitary confinement). 218 pp. ISBN: 0-850315247.

London: Methuen, (1972). No 6 in Studies in African History series, this is an examination of the military/police regime that overthrew Nkrumah and set itself up as the established government, while also pursuing the goal of restoring democracy. References, bibliography, index.x, 280 pp. ISBN: 0-416750907.

New York: New American Library - NAL - Meridian, (1970). An examination of Colonial history in Kenya, and the rise of nationalism, culminating in the 1952 State of Emergency - a book which concludes that it was the short-sightedness of European policy makers that precipitated the violence. A important and controversial book. Bibliography, notes, index. xviii, 427 pp.

London & Nairobi: Heinemann, (1979). First edition - Short biographies of nine key nineteenth-century black leaders in southern Africa, including some well-known figures - Mzilikazi and Cetshwayo - as well as others, such as Mpande and Mswati, who are less known. Contributors include Ngwabi Bhebe, P. I . Bonner, Sandra Burman and others. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Notes and suggestions for further reading at the end of each section. Index. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-435944789.

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. First edition - Presented by the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations to Parliament in April, 1951, this is a report on "(1) the nature and significance of the large numbers of murders which had taken place in 1947 and 1948 in Basutoland, (2) the proximate causes of and underlying reasons for the apparently increased incidence of the crime, and (3) the steps which the Basutoland Administration might take to remedy the position. Includes a look at the role of native medicine men and the use of 'diretlo' in the making of magical medicines with protective value. Appendices, Diagrams (including two fold-out diagrams) and a fold out map. vi, 104 pp.

Nairobi, Kenya: Vipopremo Agencies, (1973). First edition - Includes questions and answers for students preparing for the East African Certificate of Education in African History. Maps. 247 pp. Uncommon.

London: Institute of Race Relations / Oxford University Press, (1966). The first edition covered events up to January 1959, the month of the Leopoldville Riots, and the second edition goes through the date of independence in June 1960. Illustrated with three maps. vii, 82 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. dj. Hardcover - A first hand look at the explosive racial situation in South Africa at the height of apartheid - and also a book that discusses the hope which can arise from the young liberal leaders - such as Manilal Gandhi, Alan Paton, Luthuli and others. Index. 317 pp. Map endpapers.