1. Chocolate Nations
   Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2011
   Speculation, pests, political corruption, taxation, land rights, civil war and the IMF are forces at play in this investigation of cocoa agriculture and export in West Africa.
2. An Economic History of West Africa
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1973
   An examination of the economy of West Africa from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
3. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2019
   A history of West Africa from the 17th century onwards. Draws on written histories as well as archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters.
4. Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
5. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
   What are we eating?
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2018
   What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
   For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
   How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
   A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
6. The Scramble for Africa
   White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1991   Published: 2003
   Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
   
7. The Slave Trade
   The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
   
8. The Socialist Register 1967
   Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1967
   

Experts on Westafrika in the Sources Directory

1. Economic Community of West African States
2. International Crisis Group