1000 Years Around Lake Chad

We are always on the hunt for more information on Borno and its Diaspora across the world, especially before the 19th century. Whilst perusi...

Boubacar Séga Diallo's  L’empire du Wagadu: état de la question was rather underwhelming. We were expecting a condensed version of his t...

Too Close for Comfort: Master and Slave Relations in the Colonial Cape             The effects of propinquity on the nature and development ...

Jean Rouch's  Contribution à l'histoire des Songhay is rather outdated yet still useful for insights on Songhay history and culture...

Le développement et la régression chez les peuples de la boucle du Niger à l'époque précolonial by Michael Tymowski is an ambitious wor...

Giovanni Vantini's Christianity in the Sudan is a dated work which, by and large, is mainly about Christian Nubia. Heavily based on the ...

Ivor Wilks wrote an intriguing monograph several decades ago, The Northern Factor in Ashanti History. Due to our similar interest in the ...