Africa: history of a continent;
Beautiful photographs by Werner Forman and text by old school historian Basil Davidson. Ends with chapter on "Toward Liberation."
More by Basil. Davidson
The lost cities of Africa
The Black man's burden
African Kingdoms
Africa in History
The Africans
The African slave trade.
A history of West Africa, 1000-1800
Black Mother
In the eye of the storm: Angola's people
Can Africa Survive? Arguments Against Growth Without Development
West Africa before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850
The liberation of Guiné: Aspects of an African revolution; (Penguin African library AP 27)