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Colonisation, exploration and the Western gaze

Barth, Heinrich. 1857. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa V. 1. Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Barth, Heinrich. 1857. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa V. 2. Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Barth, Heinrich. 1857. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa V. 3. Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Barth, Heinrich. 1858. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa V. 4 (1858). Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Barth, Heinrich. 1858. Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa V. 5 (1858). Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

David Livingstone. Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864. Download from the US Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/05015249/

Félix Dubois. 1898. TOMBOCTOU la Mystérieuse. Click here to download from the Smithsonian Library.

Headley, J. T., & Johnson, Willis Fletcher. 1889. Stanley's wonderful adventures in Africa. Comprising accurate and graphic accounts of the exploration of equatorial Africa; the finding of Livingstone by Stanley; the expedition to the great lakes by Sir Samuel Baker; the discoveries of Lieutenant Cameron in his overland journey across the continent; the exploration of the Congo by Stanley. Click here to download from the US Library of Congress

Hore, Edward Coode. 1892. Tanganyika: eleven years in Central Africa. Download from the US Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/01001199/

Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton);1841-1904; Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 & Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham. Explorations in Africa. Download from the US Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/05015258/

Stanley, Henry Morton. 1911. The Autobiography of Hnery Morton Stanley. Click here to download from the US Library of Congress

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Indigenous Knowledge

Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu & Ejikemeuwa J. O. Ndubisi. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Problems and Perspectives. Download

Takoyoh Eyong Charles. Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development in Africa: Case Study on Central Africa. Click to download

Tondi, P. 2019. The Significance of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) for Africa’s Socio-Cultural and Economic Development in the Dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa (JGIDA), Pp 237-243. Click here to download

Claude Ake. Building on the Indigenous

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Post-growth Alternatives

Ashish Kothari. 2018. Eco-Swaraj vs. Global Eco-Catastrophe. Click here to download

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta, 2019. PLURIVERSE; A Post-Development Dictionary. Click here to download.

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Literature

Berry & Spears. West African Folk Tales. Click here to download

West African Folk Tales. Click on this link to download it from the University of California Catalogue.

Ibrahima Thiam. Entre le rythme et le blues.

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The Slave Trade

Coupland, R. The Exploitation of East Africa, 1856-1890: The Slave Trade and the Scramble. Click here for more details

Forbes, F. 1851. Dahomey and the Dahomans; Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey and Residence at His Capital in the Years 1849 and 1850. Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Gemery & Hogendorn. 1979. The Uncommon Market; Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Click here to download.

Manning. P. Slavery and Slave Trade in West Africa, 1450-1930. Click here to download

Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman. 1803. An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone. . Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Raffenel, A. 1856. Pays des Negres. Click here to download from the Smithsonian Libraries.

Rodney, Walter. West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Click here to download.

Salyers, Jake. A Study of the East African Slave Trade in Bagamoyo. Click here to download.

Vernet, T. Slave trade and slavery on the Swahili coast (1500-1750). B.A. Mirzai, I.M. Montana et P. Lovejoy. Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, Africa World Press, pp.37-76, 2009. Click here to download.