Western African Studies

About Western African Studies

This series, produced by publishers on three continents, brings together significant international scholarly work on Western Africa. Building on the successful model of the James Currey/Ohio University Press Eastern African Studies series, this series covers the western half of the continent from the Maghreb to the Congo. Multidisciplinary in character, the series is intended to circulate new work on the region throughout the world. In collaboration with a growing network of West African publishers and book distributors, the series includes work in anthropology, oral literature, politics, development, and in social and political history.

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Cover of Themes in West Africa’s History


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Cover of Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
Cover of Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958

Cover of Themes in West Africa’s History
Cover of Ouidah

Cover of Kola is God’s Gift
Cover of Slavery and Reform in West Africa

Cover of Fighting the Slave Trade
Cover of ‘Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan’

Cover of Lineages of State Fragility
Cover of Eurafricans in Western Africa

Cover of Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier
Cover of Between the Sea and the Lagoon

Cover of West African Challenge to Empire
Cover of Ghanaian Popular Fiction

Cover of Paths of Accommodation
Cover of Nkrumah & the Chiefs

Cover of El Dorado in West Africa
Cover of Willing Migrants

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