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	Lonely Planet West Africa  •   Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 904 PAGES A comprehensive guide to all West Africa, this is the book to carry for travels from Mauritania to Niger, with both a good overview of culture and history and the usual Lonely Planet attention to practical travel information. The bulk of the book is devoted to individual countries. (WAF10, $33.99)
	Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape  •  Ann Hugon EXPLORATION •  1993 •  PAPER  • 173 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE This jewel of a book chronicles the 19th-century exploration of Africa with hundreds of contemporary paintings and prints, brief chapters on the expeditions, and a very useful chronology. Livingstone, Burton and others speak for themselves in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $12.95)
	West African Folktales  •  Jack Berry  •  Richard Spears ANTHOLOGY •  1991 •  PAPER  • 229 PAGES A collection of 123 unembellished tales, well chosen and simply translated. It's a good introduction to the spirit of traditional cultures throughout West Africa. (WAF13, $21.00)
	Africa North and West Map 741  •   Michelin 2007 •  MAP A fine map of the north and parts of western Africa, covering Senegal, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and their neighbors as well as all the Mediterranean-bordering countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) at a scale of 1:4,000,000. One Side. 40x57 inches. (AFR34, $12.95)

	Niger Map  •   IGN    •  A good, full-color shaded relief map of Niger at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (AFR38, $16.95)
	Bradt Guide Mali  •  Ross Velton   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This third edition of this excellent, travel-savvy guide covers the history, culture and attractions of Mali including its music and festivals. (WAF16, $27.99)
	Bradt Guide the Gambia  •  Craig Emms  •  Linda Barnett   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the British series, featuring a good overview of the country and its natural history, plenty of travel information, 21 maps and a scattering of color photographs. (WAF90, $22.95)
	Lonely Planet Gambia and Senegal  •  David Else   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent practical guide to the Gambia and Senegal geared for independent travelers, with good overviews of culture, history and natural attractions. (WAF01, $24.99)
	Rough Guide The Gambia  •  Emma Gregg   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview. (WAF112, $19.99)
	Rough Guide West Africa  •  Jim Hudgens  •  Richard Trillo   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to all West Africa, including its history and culture. With its region-by-region descriptions, 172 maps and 12 pages of color photos, this guide covers from Mauritania south to Cameroon. (WAF38, $34.99)
	Africa  •  Phyllis Martin  •  Patrick O'Meara   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  African history and prehistory, popular culture, art and economics; It's all here in the most popular introductory text for undergraduate African studies courses in North America. With maps, photographs and drawings. (AFR07, $20.95)
	Africa, A Biography of the Continent  •  John Reader   • HISTORY  •  With the ease of a practiced journalist, Reader weaves a lively and masterful tale of the continent from ancient cultures to modern times. Both authoritative and informal, this is a splendid introduction to all of Africa. (AFR49, $18.95)
	Ancient Middle Niger, Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape  •  Roderick James McIntosh  •  Rita P. Wright   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly account of the ancient cities on the Middle Niger, which developed in the first millennium B.C. (WAF94, $34.99)
	Bamako  •  Abderrahmane Sissako   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Shot in a family courtyard in Bamako, Sissako's polemical, award-winning portrait of daily life in contemporary Mali challenges the policies of the World Bank and the IMF in Africa. (WAF124, $29.95)
	Captive Passage, The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas  •   The Mariners' Museum  •   Smithsonian Inst.   • HISTORY  •  A companion volume to the exhibition drawn largely from the collections of The Mariners' Museum. (ATL14, $39.95)
	Conversations with Ogotemmeli, An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas  •  Marcel Griaule   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An account of the complex metaphysical beliefs and cosmology of the Dogon people of the upper Volta region. (WAF44, $37.95)
	Cultural Atlas of Africa  •  Jocelyn Murray   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A handsomely illustrated atlas of African history and culture with 96 outstanding maps, 250 color photographs and excellent essays. (AFR47, $50.00)
	Dancing Skeletons, Life and Death in West Africa  •  Katherine Dettwyler   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This detailed account of life in Mali by a cultural anthropologist won the Margaret Mead Award in 1995. (WAF14, $19.95)
	Dogon, Africa's People of the Cliffs  •  Stephanie Hollyman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Hollyman's 125 intimate photographs capture the essence of the tightly knit, cooperative society of the Dogon of Mali, their traditional ways of life and distinctive architecture. (WAF46, $49.50)
	Nine Hills to Nambonkaha, Two Years in the Heart of an African Village  •  Sarah Erdman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An affectionate insightful account of two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire. (WAF72, $15.00)
	The Africans  •  David Lamb   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In these 17 well-written essays, news correspondent Lamb ranges throughout Africa, creating an insightful portrait of the land and especially its people. (AFR22, $14.95)
	The Race for Timbuktu  •  Frank T. Kryza   • HISTORY  •  An engrossing account of imperial adventures in early 19th-century West Africa and the quest for fabled Timbuktu. (WAF88, $14.95)
	Themes In West Africa's History  •  Emmanuel Akyeampong   • HISTORY  •  Geared for university students, these review articles by leading scholars cover archaeology, ecology and culture, oral traditions, society, politics and religion in West Africa. (WAF114, $24.95)
	West Africa Before the Colonial Era, A History to 1850  •  Basil Davidson   • HISTORY  •  Davidson puts the stories of peoples and empires into context in this lively, scholarly history. With maps, illustrations and a timeline. (WAF07, $50.60)
	Rough Guide Music West African Gold  •   Rough Guide World Music   • MUSIC  •  Subtitled "The Big Beat of West Africa, Joyous Sounds from a Golden Era, this authoritative compilation showcases the music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, including bands such as Bembeya Jazz, the music of Salif Keita and Dexter Johnson & the International Band and Orchestra Baobab. (WAF100, $14.95)
	Think Global: West Africa Unwired  •  John Armstrong   • MUSIC  •  Think Global: West Africa Unwired presents some of the most beautiful classics from the acoustic West Africa repertoire. (WAF127, $14.98)
	A Zoo in My Luggage  •  Gerald Durrell   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Durrell's delightful memoir of his third trip to British Cameroon to collect animals for his new zoo back home in Jersey. The mission gets funnier in England as Durrell and his wife struggle to find a home for their menagerie. (WAF78, $14.00)
	French Lessons in Africa, Travels with My Briefcase Through French Africa  •  Peter Biddlecombe   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A scandalously entertaining and useful introduction to Francophone Africa by the hilarious British writer and inveterate traveler. (WAF68, $17.95)
	Journey Without Maps  •  Graham Greene   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic account of a 1930s journey of discovery from Sierra Leone to the Liberian coast. There's no one better at capturing local personalities and complicated morality than Graham Greene, who had a particular interest in West Africa. (WAF15, $15.00)
	Of Water and the Spirit, Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman  •  Malidoma Patrice Some   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A window in the world view of West African religion, Malidoma Some's remarkable, enlightening account of his return to the Dagara people of Upper Volta shows his transformation from outsider to Shaman through a month-long initiation. (WAF110, $16.00)
	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa  •  Mungo Park   • EXPLORATION  •  Park chronicles of the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period in this classic account of a 24-year-old Scotsman exploring, often alone, in uncharted Africa. First published in 1799. (WAF40, $12.95)
	Travels in West Africa  •  Mary Kingsley  •  Anthony Brandt   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A wild success in its first printing in 1897, this account of a naive Victorian woman's experiences in West Africa is fascinating. Kingsley writes with a self-deprecating wit and deadpan humor of her collecting expeditions throughout West Africa. (WAF05, $14.95)
	Wanderings in West Africa  •  Richard Francis Burton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This account, originally published in 1861, results from a three-year stint in the British Foreign office in Fernando Po, an island off the coast of West Africa. It's a valuable first-hand account of short trips around the West African coast. (WAF12, $19.95)
	Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories  •  Chinua Achebe  •  Lynn Innes   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A single-volume introduction to the vast literature of Africa, containing stories from the past 37 years. (AFR10, $14.94)
	No Sweetness Here and Other Stories  •  Ama Ata Aidoo   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of eleven short stories about the lives of women and men in postcolonial Ghana and the tensions between traditional village and urban life; Aidoo's stories emphasize Ghana's prominent oral culture. (WAF23, $13.95)
	God's Bits of Wood  •  Sembene Ousmane  •  Francis Price   • LITERATURE  •  A story of conflict between colonial powers and West African rail workers, set in the late 1940s, written by Senegal's foremost novelist and filmmaker. (WAF22, $17.44)
	Middle Passage  •  Charles Johnson   • LITERATURE  •  Winner of the National Book Award, this historical novel, set in 1830, is the richly imagined tale of a recently freed slave in New Orleans who signs aboard a square-rigger bound for Africa. (ATL02, $15.00)
	Segu  •  Maryse Conde  •  Barbara Bray   • LITERATURE  •  An epic novel set in the West African kingdom of Bambara (old Mali) in 1797, exhaustive in its detail and thoroughly addictive. Conde transforms actual historical events into a full-blooded, lively tale. (WAF17, $17.00)
	Sundiata, An Epic of Old Mali  •  D.T. Niane   • LITERATURE  •  A splendid introduction to Mali's venerable oral traditions. Since the 13th century, Malian griots have told the story of Sundiata, the lion king, who first wrested his throne from a sorcerer, then united West Africa. (WAF48, $16.00)
	Things Fall Apart  •  Chinua Achebe   • LITERATURE  •  The 50th anniversary edition of Achebe's celebrated novel of the young village leader Okonkwo, set during in 19th-century Nigeria during the drama and disruption of colonialism, (WAF56, $11.00)
	Viceroy of Ouidah  •  Bruce Chatwin   • LITERATURE  •  Set in the 19th-century court of Dahomey (Benin), this novel evokes in rich detail the rise to power of a wretched slave trader. (WAF18, $13.00)
	Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest, How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa  •  John F. Oakes   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A survey of national parks and conservation throughout West Africa, of primary interest to conservationists. Oakes uses West Africa as a case study to argue against the prevailing notion that wildlife is best protected through small-scale community development. (WAF11, $25.95)
	A Field Guide to the Birds of The Gambia and Senegal  •  Clive Barlow  •  Tim Wacher  •  Tony Disley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A guide to 660 species of birds of Senegal and the Gambia, featuring 48 color plates and short descriptions on the facing pages. (WAF03, $45.00)
	A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa  •  Nik Borrow  •  Ron Demey   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive handbook and guide to the birds of Central and Western Africa from Senegal to Chad and the Congo, featuring 142 original color plates. (WAF59, $110.00)
	Birds of Western Africa  •  Nik Borrow  •  Ron Demey   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field edition of Barrow and Demey's comprehensive handbook, covering nearly 1,300 species from Senegal to Congo and featuring 150 color plates. (WAF76, $45.00)
	Birds of Western and Central Africa, Princeton Illustrated Checklist  •  Ber Van Perlo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An admirably compact, comprehensive guide to 1,500 species throughout Western and Central Africa featuring 109 color plates by Ber Van Perlo. (WAF02, $29.95)
	National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Small enough to slip into a pack, this photo guide covers 850 birds, mammals and reptiles of Africa. With range maps and a good country-by-country overview of habitats and parks. (AFR25, $23.95)

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