Select bibliography
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Charles Fraser Beckingham. “Introduction” in: James Bruce. Travels to discover the source of the Nile. Edinburgh: At the University Press, 1964, p. 1-19
Norman R. Bennett. Africa and Europe: from Roman times to national independence. Second edition. London: Holmes & Meier, 1984
Pierre Bertaux. Afrika: von der Vorgeschichte bis zu den Staaten der Gegenwart. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995
Robin Blackburn. The overthrow of colonial slavery 1776-1848. London: Verso, 1988
John William Blake (ed.). Europeans in West Africa, 1450-1560: documents to illustrate the nature and scope of Portuguese enterprise in West Africa, the abortive attempt of Castilians to create and empire there and the early English voyages to Barbary and Guinea. London: printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1942
John William Blake. West Africa: quest for God and gold, 1454-1578. London: Curzon Press, 1977
A. Adu Boahen (ed.). General history of Africa. VII: Africa under colonial domination 1880-1935. London: Heinemann, 1985
Max Böhme. Die grossen Reisesammlungen des 19. Jahrhunderts und ihre Bedeutung. Strassburg: Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von J.H.Ed. Heitz, 1904
Albert van Dantzig. Forts and castles of Ghana. Accra: Sedco Publishing, 1999
T.R.H. Davenport. South Africa: a modern history. Fourth edition. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991
J. D. Fage. A history of Africa. Third edition. London: Routledge, 1995
J.D. Fage. A history of West Africa: an introductory survey. Fourth edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969
John E. Flint (ed.). The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 5: From c.1790 to c.1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976
Stig Förster, Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Ronald Robinson (eds.). Bismarck, Europe and Africa: the Berlin Africa Conference 1884-1885 and the onset of partition. London: German Historical Institute, 1988
Christopher Fyfe. A short history of Sierra Leone. London: Longman, 1979
Richard Gray (ed.). The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 4: From c.1600 to c.1790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975
Great Britain. “Treaty between Her Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of Portugal, defining their respective spheres of influence in Africa, Lisbon, 11th June 1891” in: Edward Hertslet. The map of Africa by treaty. [Charleston]: BiblioLife, 2008
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Richard Greenfield. Ethiopia: a new political history. London: Pall Mall Press, 1965
P. E. H. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law (eds.). Barbot on Guinea: the writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992
P. E. H. Hair and Robin Law. “The English in Western Africa to 1700” in: Oxford history of the British Empire. Vol.1: The origins of empire: British overseas enterprise to the close of the seventeenth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 241-263
Robin Hallett. “Introduction” in: Richard Landert. The Niger journal of Richard and John Lander. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965, p. 1-35
John D. Hargreaves. “Towards a history of the partition of Africa” in: Journal of African History, 1(1), 1960, p. 97-109
Edward Heawood. “The exploration of Africa, 1783-1870” in: The Cambridge history of the British Empire. Vol. 2. The growth of the new empire, 1783-1870. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1940. p. 615-632
Christopher Hibbert. Africa explored: Europeans in the dark continent, 1769-1889. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984
Timothy Holmes. Journey to Livingstone: exploration of an imperial myth. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993
Cecil Howard (ed.). West African explorers. London: Oxford University Press, 1951
Stiv Jakobsson. Am I not a man and a brother?: British missions and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in West Africa and the West Indies. Uppsala: Gleerup, 1972
Frederick A. Johnstone. Class, race and gold: a study of class relations and institutional racialism in South Africa. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976
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Shula Marks and Anthony Atmore (eds.). Economy and society in pre-industrial South Africa. London: Longman, 1980
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Arthur Percival Newton. “British enterprise in tropical Africa, 1783-1839” in: The Cambridge history of the British Empire. Vol. 2: The growth of the new empire, 1783-1870. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1940, p. 633-676
Davidson Nicol. “Mungo Park and the river Niger” in: African Affairs, 55, 1956, p. 47-50
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Oliver Ransford. The slave trade: the story of transatlantic slavery. London: John Murray, 1971
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Robert Smith. Kingdoms of the Yoruba. Third edition. London : James Currey, 1988
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Donald L. Wiedner. A history of Africa : South of the Sahara. New York: Vintage Books, 1964
In this exhibition
- First European encounters
- Slavery and anti-slavery
- Towards emancipation
- South Africa: early European settlement
- South Africa: diamonds, gold and bloodshed
- Interior exploration of Africa
- The scramble for Africa
- Africa under European rule
- I speak of Africa
- Select bibliography

