Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House: African in the philosophy of culture, London 1992

Frederick Cooper, Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State, Harvard 2014

Frederick Cooper, Africa since 1940: the past of the present, Cambridge 2002

John Parker and Richard Rathbone, African History: a very short introduction, Oxford, 2007

John Iliffe, Africans: the history of a continent, Second edition, Cambridge 2007.

Richard J. Reid, A history of modern Africa, 1800 to present, 2nd edition, Oxford 2011

Crawford Young, The Postcolonial state in Africa, Madison, 2012

Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across the Disciplines, New Brunswick 2002

Stanford University has a very good gateway to internet resources on Africa: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html