East and West Africa

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The bibliography for this section is being compiled by Awet Teklehimanot Araya. Please contact the curator if you have material to suggest, or comments, at: at643[at]exeter.ac.uk.

East Africa

Comoros

Djibouti

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Madagascar

Somalia and Somaliland

Sudan and South Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

West Africa

Ghana

Mali

Mauritania

Nigeria

Senegal

General works

Chirikure, S. 2017. Documenting precolonial trade in Africa, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia, African History. Oxfordre.com/africanhistory, 1-24.

Horton, Mark, 1991. “Primitive Islam and Architecture in East Africa”, Muqarnas 8, K. A. C. Creswell and His Legacy: 103-116.

Insoll, T. 2003. The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge World Archaeology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Insoll, T. 2020. The Islamic Archaeology of West Africa. In Walker, B., Insoll, T., & Fenwick, C. (Eds.). (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology. Oxford University Press.