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	The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century • Ross E. Dunn • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A modern historian's account of Ibn Battuta's travels in the medieval Islamic world. When Battuta left his native Morocco in 1325, he intended a pilgrimage to Mecca; however his travels ultimately took him as far as Mali in the west and Malaysia in the east, stopping in China, the Middle East, and much of Africa along the way. (AFR103, $19.95)
	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, $19.95)
	Africa North and West Map 741 • Michelin • A fine regional map 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. (AFR34, $11.95)
	African Predators • M.G.L. Mills • Gus Mills • Martin Harvey • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history of the giant cats and other predators of Africa. (AFR114, $39.95)
	African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power • Susanne Preston Blier • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A detailed study of West African vodun traditions, particularly in Togo and Benin. Blier compares the psychological and visual elements of Vodun with related voodoo traditions of Haiti and New Orleans. (WAF74, $45.00)
	African Wildlife • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh • FIELD GUIDE • A laminated fold-out guide. (AFR109, $5.95)
	Ake, the Years of Childhood • Wole Soyinka • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A Nobel Prize-winning playwright, recalls his Yoruba childhood in Nigeria during World War II. (WAF47, $14.95)
	All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes • Maya Angelou • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A candid memoir of Angelou's experiences in Ghana in the 1960s, just five years after the country's independence from Britain. (WAF24, $13.00)
	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)
	Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel • Jeffrey Tayler • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The eye-opening account of an American journalist's trek across the Sahel, the southern region of the Sahara Desert, which encompasses Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Chad and Senegal. (WAF83, $25.00)
	Black Gold of the Sun, Searching for Home in Africa And Beyond • Ekow Eshun • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • (WAF109, $13.95)
	The Black Man's Burden, Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State • Basil Davidson • HISTORY • An evocative work that traces the origins of Africa's independence movement, placing the continent's current political instability in a historical perspective. (AFR92, $15.00)
	Bogolan, Shaping Culture Through Cloth in Contemporary Mali • Victoria Rovine • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN NOVEMBER • A beautifully illustrated survey of the transformation of bogolanfini (mudcloth) textiles in Mali from its traditional rural roots to contemporary symbol. With 24 color and 33 black-and-white photographs and maps. (WAF62, $24.95)
	Bradt Guide Benin • Stuart Butler • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide in the growing series by Bradt, noteworthy for its focus on culture, nature and responsible travel. The author includes sights and activities throughout the country. (WAF91, $23.95)
	Bradt Guide Burkina Faso • Katrina Manson • James Knight • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, noted for publishing travel guides to remote and little-visited destinations. (WAF92, $23.95)
	Bradt Guide Cape Verde Islands • Aisling Irwin • Colum Wilson • GUIDEBOOK • A practical travel guide to the Cape Verde islands, including its cultural and natural history. (ATL07, $22.95)
	Bradt Guide Ghana • Philip Briggs • Hilary Bradt • Annabel Milne • GUIDEBOOK • Complete with maps and town plans, this guide to Ghana features practical information on the country's history, culture and attractions. (WAF27, $26.99)
	Bradt Guide Mali • Ross Velton • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, detailed guide to traveling in Mali in the British series, strong on practical information. (WAF16, $21.95)
	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)
	Burkina Faso Map • ITMB • A colorful traveler's map of the country at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (WAF101, $10.95)
	Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa • Suzanne Preston Blier • James Morris • ART & ARCHITECTURE • OUT OF PRINT • A photographic survey of adobe buildings throughout West Africa, including the great mosque at Djenne (the largest mud building in the world), ordinary houses and huts, arches, domes, colonnades, grillwork and other architectural feats. (WAF70, $50.00)
	The Camel and the Wheel • Richard Bulliet • HISTORY • Bulliet draws on archaeology, art,anthropology and camel husbandry to explore the implications -- from the Middle Ages to the present -- of the dependence on the camel for transport in the Middle East. (MDE96, $29.00)
	Captain Sir Richard Burton, A Biography • Edward Rice • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A splendid, absorbing account of the Victorian explorer. (AFR99, $27.50)
	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)
	Changes, A Love Story • Ama Ata Aidoo • LITERATURE • Aidoo creates a moving portrait of womens' lives in Africa and the problems that are all too familiar in almost every culture. (WAF35, $15.95)
	The Commodore • Patrick O'Brian • LITERATURE • The 17th in the series, With Aubrey back home in England and in battle off West Africa. (WAF73, $13.95)
	Congo Map • IGN • (WAF04, $16.95)
	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, $34.95)
	The Cruelest Journey, Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu • Kira Salak • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Adventurer Kira Salak's account of her journeys on the Niger River and her record-breaking 600-mile solo kayaking trip to Timbuktu. (WAF75, $26.00)
	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, $16.95)
	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)
	Eating Apes • Dale Peterson • Karl Ammann • Janet K. Museveni • NATURAL HISTORY • In this powerful book, primatologist Peterson calls for a stop to the consumption of bush meat, especially chimps, bonos, and gorillas, in the forests of Central and Western Africa. (AFR153, $15.95)
	Einstein and the Total Eclipse • Peter Coles • SCIENCE • An account of the solar eclipse expedition that vindicated Einstein's theory of relativity. The success of the experiment immediately propelled Einstein onto the front pages of newspapers around the world. (SCI28, $7.95)
	The Ends of the Earth, A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy • Robert D. Kaplan • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An insightful, opinionated odyssey to some of the world's poorer and more troubled nations. (WLD26, $16.00)
	Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape • Ann Hugon • EXPLORATION • 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 are featured in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $12.95)
	The Famished Road • Ben Okri • LITERATURE • The haunting, Booker Prize-winning novel set in a Yoruba village in modern Nigeria. (WAF39, $15.95)
	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, $42.00)
	Flashman and the Tiger • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI. (WAF58, $14.95)
	Forests of Gold, Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante • Ivor Wilks • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of essays that explores the Akan peoples of Ghana and examines the Asante kingdom. (WAF33, $25.00)
	The Fortunes of Wangrin • Amadou Hampate Ba • LITERATURE • The classic 1976 story of Wangrin, a promising West African boy who leaves his tribal village only to confront the greed and corruption of the French and the colonial government. (WAF108, $17.95)
	From Slavery to Freedom, A History of African Americans • John Hope Franklin • HISTORY • A classic history of the African American experience. (USA39, $75.00)
	The Gates of Africa, Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu • Sattin Anthony • HISTORY • An engaging chronological history of the adventures and explorations of the African Association which, starting in 1788, set out into the Sahara, onto the Nile and Niger Rivers, and searched for the legendary city of Timbuktu. (AFR145, $27.95)
	Genii of the River Niger • Jean-Marie Gibbal • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An ethnography of the people south of Timbuktu, in the Lake Debo region, where water spirits play a vital role in folk traditions and culture. (WAF86, $22.00)
	Ghana Map • ITMB • A colorful, folded map of Ghana at a detailed scale of 1:500,000. (WAF37, $11.95)
	The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa • Alexander McCall Smith • LITERATURE • McCall Smith brings together folktales, often hilarious or bizarre, which he heard as a child growing up in Zimbabwe. (AFR141, $22.00)
	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, $13.95)
	The Golden Trade of the Moors • E.W. Bovill • HISTORY • A lively scholarly history of over 1,000 years of trans-Saharan trade, originally published in 1968. (NAF44, $24.95)
	A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa • Nik Borrow • Ron Demey • FIELD GUIDE • A comprehensive guide with illustrations of 1,282 species of the region. (WAF59, $95.00)
	Guinea Map • IGN • A colorful, French-produced map of the West African nation of Guinea at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (WAF87, $16.95)
	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, $11.95)
	Historical Dictionary of Mali • Pascal James Imperato • REFERENCE • A dictionary of people, places, and events in Malian history. (WAF49, $100.00)
	A History of Sub-Saharan Africa • Robert O. Collins • James M. Burns • HISTORY • A clear, brief survey of the history and development of Africa, aimed at undergraduates and interested readers, organized thematically. With chapters on climate and geography, the rise of states and empires, the slave trade within Africa and beyond to the Americas, the European conquest, and Africa in the 20th century. (AFR174, $27.99)
	In Sorcery's Shadow • Paul Stoller • Cheryl Olkes • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An anthropologist's account of his time in Niger and his experiences with local sorcerers and traditional healers. It's an excellent introduction to the role of magic and its moral complications in African culture. (WAF55, $18.00)
	It's a Jungle Up There, More Tales from the Treetops • Margaret Lowman • James Burgess • Edward Burgess • NATURAL HISTORY • This engaging globe-skipping chronicle takes the tropical ecologist and her now-grown sons James and Edward to Samoa, West Africa, Peru, Panama, India and other great habitats. (NAT92, $30.00)
	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)
	Kwame Nkrumah, The Father of African Nationalism • David Birmingham • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The tale of the remarkable life of Kwame Nkrumah, the African statesman who championed for independence, won Africans the right to vote, and became the president of Ghana in 1960. (WAF34, $14.95)
	Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf • LITERATURE • A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. (MED55, $16.95)
	Lonely Planet Gambia and Senegal • David Else • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent practical guide to the Gambia and Senegal geared for independent travelers. (WAF01, $23.99)
	Lonely Planet West Africa • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • 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. (WAF10, $31.99)
	Mali Map • ITMB • A fold-up map of Mali, shown at a scale of 1:2,400,000. (WAF43, $11.95)
	Mande Music, Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa • Eric Charry • MUSIC • An in-depth examination of the rich musical traditions of Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, from the 13th century to the present day. (WAF102, $29.00)
	Mande Potters and Leatherworkers, Art and Heritage in West Africa • Barbara Frank • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A nicely illustrated scholarly cultural history of Mande-speaking craftspeople in West Africa. Dispersed throughout Mali and West Africa, Mande potters and leatherworkers form a distinct social class, where women make ceramics and the men work in leather. (WAF61, $27.95)
	Mango Elephants in the Sun, How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin • Susan Herrera • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The engaging account of a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Cameroon. (WAF20, $22.95)
	Mauritania Map • International Travel Maps • A map of Mauritania, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (WAF63, $11.95)
	Medieval West Africa, Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants • Jay Spaulding • Nehemia Levtzion • HISTORY • A scholarly overview of Sub-Saharan Africa from the ninth to the fourteenth century, with a particular focus on Islamization. (WAF103, $26.95)
	Memoirs of the Maelstrom, A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War • Joe Lunn • HISTORY • A history of colonial military recruitment, training, war time service and repatriation, as told through oral histories of Senagalese veterans. A remarkable examination of a colony's wartime relationship with the mother country. (WAF104, $25.95)
	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)
	Muslim Societies in African History • David Robinson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Robinson, a leading scholar, presents a good overview of Islam within the context of African, especially West African, history. (ISL54, $22.99)
	Niger Map • IGN • A good, full-color shaded relief map of Niger at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (AFR38, $14.95)
	Nigeria Map • Freytag & Berndt • A shaded relief map of Nigeria. (AFR39, $11.95)
	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, $14.00)
	No Longer at Ease • Chinua Achebe • LITERATURE • The story of an Ibo boy who leaves his village for a British education and then finds himself immersed in the corrupt Nigerian ruling elite he despises. (WAF107, $10.95)
	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)
	Nomads of Niger • Carol Beckwith • Marion Van Offelen • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • OUT OF PRINT • For this extended photographic essay, famed photographer traveled among the Wodaabe nomads of central Niger for a year and a half, giving her intimate access to the daily life of a family of cattle herders. (WAF52, $29.98)
	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)
	Onions are My Husband, Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women • Gracia Clark • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A vivid ethnographic portrait of the women of the enormous open-air Kumasi Central Market in Ghana based on interviews and fieldwork by University of Indiana anthropologist Gracia Clark. (WAF28, $37.50)
	Palace Sculptures of Abomey, History Told on Walls • Francesca Pique • Leslie Rainer • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey and history of the sculptures and bas-reliefs at the Dahomey palace with 120 color photographs. (WAF77, $24.95)
	The Peoples of the Middle Niger • Roderick James McIntosh • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly study of the ancient inhabitants of the Niger floodplain, incorporating archaeological discoveries and oral traditions. (WAF93, $59.95)
	The Peopling of Africa, A Geographic Interpretation • James L. Newman • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An anthropological study of Africa, which considers, among other factors, genetics, religion, language and technology. (AFR140, $18.00)
	Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity, Precolonical Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries • Mark, Peter • HISTORY • A scholarly history of precolonial Portugese influence in Western Africa. (WAF105, $24.95)
	The Race for Timbuktu, In Search of Africa's City of Gold • 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)
	Riding the Demon, On the Road in West Africa • Peter Chilson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Peter Chilson took to the road in Niger for this portrait of a turbulent and fascinating nation, where rickety bush taxis, packed to the gills with passengers, provide an eye-opening perspective on the nation. (WAF54, $24.95)
	The River Where Blood Is Born • Sandra Jackson-Opoku • LITERATURE • A complex, layered novel following the fate of several generations of women from 18th-century Africa to modern America and Barbados. (WAF41, $12.95)
	Roots • Alex Haley • LITERATURE • AThe 30th anniversary edition of Alex Haley's epic story of Kunta Kinte and his descendents. (WAF21, $15.95)
	Rough Guide Music Nigeria & Ghana • Various Artists • MUSIC • A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of Nigeria and Ghana. Includes the styles Highlife, Fuji, and Afrobeat. (WAF97, $14.98)
	Rough Guide Music West African Gold • Rough Guide World Music • MUSIC • 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, $14.98)
	Rough Guide Music Youssou N'dour & Etoile de Dakar • Youssou N'Dour • MUSIC • A guide to the music of the internationally acclaimed Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and his band Etoile de Dakar. Youssou champions mbalax, the dance music of his Wolof people. (WAF98, $14.98)
	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 to the Music of Senegal & Gambia • Various Artists • MUSIC • A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of these West African nations. Includes the celebrated artists Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Cheikh Lo, Tata Dinding Jobarteh and Ifang Bondi. (WAF96, $14.98)
	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)
	Rough Guides Africa 25 Ultimate Experiences • Rough Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Subtitled Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, these colorful pocket guides, 25 in all, published in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rough Guides, celebrate remarkable, not-to-be-missed things to do and places to go, certain to inspire. (AFR196, $5.99)
	The Scramble for Africa • Thomas Pakenham • HISTORY • A well-written, meticulously researched history of the Victorian land grab in Africa. The book includes excellent portraits of the egomaniacal personalities that overran the continent. (AFR26, $23.95)
	The Seasons of Beento Blackbird • Akosua Busia • LITERATURE • A provocative novel dissecting the issues of marriage and African identity by the daughter of a former Ghanaian prime minister. (WAF42, $21.95)
	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 addicting. Conde transforms actual historical events into a full-blooded, lively tale. (WAF17, $16.00)
	Senegal and The Gambia Map • ITMB • A colorful map of Senegal and The Gambia, at a scale of 1:800,000. (WAF69, $11.95)
	Still Waters in Niger • Kathleen Hill • LITERATURE • An atmospheric novel set in America and Niger. After living for in the United States for 17 years, an Irish-American woman returns to a small village in Niger where she had once lived with her husband and three daughters. (WAF53, $15.95)
	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)
	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)
	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 distruption of colonialim, (WAF56, $10.95)
	Togo Map • IGN • (AFR37, $16.95)
	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa • Mungo Park • EXPLORATION • The classic first-person account of explorations in search of the Niger River, first published in 1799. Park provides a chronicle of the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period. (WAF40, $23.95)
	Travels in West Africa • Mary Kingsley • Anthony Brandt • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • OUT OF PRINT • 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, $14.00)
	The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi • Arthur Japin • Ina Rilke • LITERATURE • An acclaimed debut novel by a young Dutch writer, concerning the tragic fortunes of two Dutch-educated West African princes circa 1830, whose schooling renders them neither Dutch nor Ashanti. (NTH45, $14.00)
	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)
	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)
	Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 • Bruce Vandervort • HISTORY • A scholarly history of European military activity in Africa and the impact of imperial wars on both European and African military practices. (WAF106, $18.95)
	Wind, Sand and Stars • Antoine de Saint Exupery • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • St. Exupery's luminous account of flying early postal routes over South America, Europe and the deserts of West Africa in the 1930s, including the classic tale of his crash in the Libyan desert. (DES11, $13.00)
	Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon • Makuchi • Eloise A. Briere • LITERATURE • A collection of short stories from a native of Cameroon. (CAF05, $16.95)
	A Zoo in My Luggage • Gerald Durrell • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Durrell's delightful memoir of his third trip to British Cameroons to collect animals and his starting a new zoo in England. (WAF78, $14.00)

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