Research Guides and Bibliographies

Compiled by Lisa Finder, Hunter College Librarian

All of these books are at Hunter College’s Main Library.

Appiah, Anthony and Gates, Henry Louis, eds. Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience  2nd ed.    Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.  5 v. Hunter Main Reference, 4th floor DT14 .A37435 2005

Curtin, Philip, et al. African history: from Earliest Times to Independence. 2nd ed.     London; New York : Longman, 1995.

Davidson, Basil. Africa in History: Themes and Outlines.   Rev. and expanded ed.  New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991. (On Reserve)

Davidson, Basil.   Africa: History of a Continent. With  photos by Werner Forman.     New York, Macmillan [1966].

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt). The World and Africa; an Inquiry into the part which Africa has Played in World History.  New York: The Viking Press, 1947.

Falola, Toyin and Childs, Matt D., eds. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic world.    Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2004.

Iliffe, John. Africans: the History of a Continent.  New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

July, Robert William. A History of the African People. 5th ed.  Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, 1998.

Oliver, Roland Anthony. Africa since 1800.   5th ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Page, Willie F., The Encyclopedia of African History and Culture.  New York : Facts on File, 2001-  Hunter Main      Reference, 4th floor      DT3 .P27 2001

Robinson, David.  Muslim societies in African history. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Shillington, Kevin. History of Africa   Rev. 2nd ed.    London : Macmillan, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (On Reserve)

Unesco. The African Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century : reports and papers of the meeting of experts, organized by Unesco at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 31 January to 4 February 1978. Paris: UNESCO, 1979.

UNESCO. General history of Africa / UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa.  London : Heinemann ; Berkeley : University of California Press, 1981- (7 Volumes)