Arabic Medieval Inscriptions From The Republic Of Mali

By Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

Epigraphy, Chronicles, and Songhay-Tuareg History.

The English in West Africa, 1681-1683 (Part 1)

Edited by Robin Law

The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699.

‘The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself’ and Other Writings

By Otumfuo, Nana Agyeman Prempeh I
Edited by E Akyeampong, Agyeman

The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself is a key text for understanding the history of the great West African kingdom of Asante (now in Ghana)…

Treatise on the Rivers of Cuama

By Antonio da Conceicao
Edited and translated by Malyn Newitt

• New edition of this Portuguese text is accompanied by the first English translation
• Describes a formative period in the history of what is now Zimbabwe

The English in West Africa, 1685-1688 (Part 2)

Edited by Robin Law

The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England 1681-1699.

The English in West Africa, 1691-1699 (Part 3)

Edited by Robin Law

The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699.

Memoirs of Giambattista Scala, Consul of his Italian Majesty in Lagos in Guinea (1862)

Translated by Brenda Packman

Edited by Robert Smith

This is the first English edition of an important source about a transitional period in Nigerian and colonial history.

Muhammad al-Qadiri’s Nashr al-mathani: The Chronicles

Edited by Norman Cigar

The Historical Geography of Ethiopia From the First Century AD to 1704

By G.W.B Huntingford

Edited by Dr Richard Pankhurst and Dr David Appleyard

This first attempt at a comprehensive study of Ethiopia’s historical geography is based on Greek, Roman, Arabic and later traveller’s accounts, as well as on Ethiopian royal chronicles and other Ethiopian documents.

The History of the Mazru’i Dynasty of Mombasa

Edited by Shaykh Al-Amin Bin ‘Ali Al Mazru’i

Translated and annotated by J. McL. Ritchie

A Reliable Account of the Coast of Guinea (1760)

By Ludewig Ferdinand Romer

Edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes

This is the first complete English translation of an important and sensitive account of Gold Coast (modern Ghana) in the mid eighteenth century.

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade

Edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes

Paul Erdmann Isert’s Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia (1788)

Dahomey and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Edited by Robin Law

• Important original ocuments previously unpublished
• Includes source material both for study of anti-slavery efforts of the British Government and also for the study of the kingdom of Dahomey, West Africa
• Substantial editorial introduction and extensive notes