Editing History of Africa (section)

==Further reading==
* [[UNESCO Publishing]] (1981–2024) ''[[General History of Africa]]''
* [[Cambridge University Press]] (1975–1986) ''[[The Cambridge History of Africa]]''
* [[Kevin Shillington|Shillington, Kevin]] (1989) ''History of Africa'' (4th edition, 2019)
* [[John Desmond Clark|Clark, J. Desmond]] (1970). ''The Prehistory of Africa''. Thames and Hudson
* [[Basil Davidson|Davidson, Basil]] (1964). ''The African Past''. Penguin, Harmondsworth
* [[Falola, Toyin]]. ''Africa'', Volumes 1–5.
* FitzSimons, William. "Sizing Up the 'Small Wars' of African Empire: An Assessment of the Context and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Colonial Warfare". ''Journal of African Military History'' 2#1 (2018): 63–78. {{doi|10.1163/24680966-0020100}}
* {{Cite book|last=French|first=Howard|year=2021|title=Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War|location=New York|publisher=Liveright Publishing Company|isbn=9781631495823|oclc=1268921040}}
* [[Bill Freund (historian)|Freund, Bill]] (1998). ''The Making of Contemporary Africa'', Lynne Rienner, Boulder (including a substantial "Annotated Bibliography" pp.&nbsp;269–316).
* July, Robert (1998). ''A History of the African People'', (Waveland Press, 1998).
* Lamphear, John, ed. ''African Military History'' (Routledge, 2007).
* Reader, John (1997). ''Africa: A Biography of the Continent''. Hamish Hamilton. {{ISBN|0-241-13047-6}}
* [[John Thornton (historian)|Thornton, John K]]. ''Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800'' (Routledge, 1999).

===Atlases===
* Ajayi, A.J.F. and Michael Crowder. ''Historical Atlas of Africa'' (1985); 300 color maps.
* Fage, J.D. ''Atlas of African History'' (1978)
* Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P. ''The New Atlas of African History'' (1991).
* Kwamena-Poh, Michael, et al. ''African history in Maps'' (Longman, 1982).
* McEvedy, Colin. ''The Penguin Atlas of African History'' (2nd ed. 1996). [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140513213/ excerpt]

===Historiography===

* Afolayan, Funso (2005). "Historiography of Africa" ''Encyclopedia of African History''
* Falola, Toyin (2011). "African Historical Writing" ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945''
* Fage, John D. "The development of African historiography." ''General history of Africa'' 1 (1981): 25–42. [http://repository.out.ac.tz/403/1/Vol_1._Methodology_&_African_Prehistory_editor_J.KI-ZERBO(FILEminimizer).pdf#page=48 online]
* Odhiambo, E.S. Atieno (2004). "The Usages of the past: African historiographies since independence" ''African Research and Documentation'' 96 
* {{citation|url=http://www.manning.pitt.edu/pdf/2013.Manning.JAH.pdf|doi=10.1017/S0021853713000753|title=African and World Historiography|journal=The Journal of African History|volume=54|issue=3|pages=319–330|year=2013|last1=Manning|first1=Patrick|s2cid=33615987}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Manning|first1=Patrick|year=2016|title=Locating Africans on the World Stage: A Problem in World History|journal=Journal of World History|volume=27|issue=3|pages=605–637}}
* [[John Edward Philips|Philips, John Edward, ed.]] ''Writing African History'' (2005)
* Whitehead, Clive. "The historiography of British Imperial education policy, Part II: Africa and the rest of the colonial empire." ''History of Education'' 34.4 (2005): 441–454. [http://www.worldpece.org/sites/default/files/artifacts/media/pdf/2005_whitehead_the_historiography_of_british_imperial_education.pdf online]
* Zimmerman, Andrew. "Africa in Imperial and Transnational History: multi-sited historiography and the necessity of theory." ''Journal of African History'' 54.3 (2013): 331–340. [https://histoire.ens.fr/IMG/pdf/zimmerman_-_africa-in-imperial-and-transnational-history-.pdf online]