| year of publication | ISBN | author(s) | title |
| 1985 | 978-0-85255-001-4 | Terence Ranger | Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study |
| '' | 978-0-85255-007-6 | J. Vansina | Oral Tradition as History |
| 1988 | 978-0-85255-016-8 | Sir Charles Rey | Monarch of All I Survey |
| 1987 | 978-0-85255-019-9 | Tabitha Kanogo | Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63 |
| 1990 | 978-0-85255-058-8 | Barbara Bush | Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 |
| '' | 978-0-85255-064-9 | Sol T. Plaatje | Mafeking Diary |
| 1991 | 978-0-85255-066-3 | Zewde Bahru | A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 |
| 1990 | 978-0-85255-092-2 | G. Mokhtar | General History of Africa volume 2: Ancient Civilizations of Africa: Ancient Civilizations of Africa Vol 2 (Unesco General History of Africa (abridged)) |
| 1997 | 978-0-85255-094-6 | J. Ki-Zerbo · D.T. Niane | Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century (General History of Africa IV) |
| 1999 | 978-0-85255-095-3 | Bethwell A. Ogot | General History of Africa volume 5: Africa from the 16th to the 18th Century: Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century v. 5 (Unesco General History of Africa (abridged)) |
| 1998 | 978-0-85255-096-0 | J.F. Ade Ajayi | Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s (General History of Africa VI) |
| 1999 | 978-0-85255-098-4 | Ali A. Mazrui | General History of Africa volume 8: Africa since 1935: Africa Since 1935 Vol 8 (Unesco General History of Africa (abridged)) |
| 1987 | 978-0-85255-104-2 | Roger Riddell | Foreign Aid Reconsidered |
| 1985 | 978-0-85255-201-8 | David Lan | Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe |
| 1994 | 978-0-85255-207-0 | Thomas D. Blakely · Walter E.A. van Beek | Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression (Monograph Series of David M.Kennedy Centre for Int Studies at Brigham Young Univ) |
| 1997 | 978-0-85255-236-0 | Karin Barber | Readings in African Popular Culture |
| 1999 | 978-0-85255-284-1 | John Middleton | Lugbara Religion: Ritual and Authority Among an East African People (Classics in African Anthropology) |
| 1996 | 978-0-85255-350-3 | Colin Leys | Rise and Fall of Development Theory |
| 1992 | 978-0-85255-352-7 | Stephen Ellis · Tjepo Sechaba | Comrades Against Apartheid: ANC and the South African Communist Party in Exile |
| 2003 | 978-0-85255-392-3 | Douglas H. Johnson | Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars (African Issues) |
| 1996 | 978-0-85255-397-8 | Paul Richards | Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone (African Issues) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-399-2 | Mahmood Mamdani | Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-409-8 | Melissa Leach · Robin Mearns | Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment (African Issues) |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-434-0 | Alcinda Honwana · Filip de Boeck | Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa |
| 2004 | 978-0-85255-439-5 | Sarah Michael | Undermining Development: The Absence of Power among Local NGOs in Africa (African Issues) |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-487-6 | Gregory H. Maddox · James L. Giblin | In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania (Eastern African Studies) |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-488-3 | Gregory H. Maddox · James L. Giblin | In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania (Eastern African Studies) |
| 2009 | 978-0-85255-501-9 | Wa Thiong'o Ngugi | Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature) |
| 1998 | 978-0-85255-521-7 | Eldred Durosimi Jones · Marjorie Jones | Childhood in African Literature (African Literature Today) |
| 1991 | 978-0-85255-527-9 | Simon Gikandi | Reading Chinua Achebe (Studies in African literature) |
| 1995 | 978-0-85255-535-4 | Gillian Stead Eilersen | Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears - Her Life and Writings (Studies in African Literature) |
| 1997 | 978-0-85255-541-5 | Wa Thiong'o Ngugi | Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society (Studies in African Literature) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-545-3 | Ezenwa-Ohaeto | Chinua Achebe: A Biography |
| 2000 | 978-0-85255-549-1 | G.D. Killam · Ruth Rowe | Companion to African Literatures |
| '' | 978-0-85255-565-1 | Bernth Lindfors | Black African Literature in English, 1992-1996 |
| '' | 978-0-85255-567-5 | Hans M. Zell · Cecile Lomer | African Studies Companion: A Resource Guide and Directory |
| 2009 | 978-0-85255-572-9 | Ernest N. Emenyonu | New Novels in African Literature Today |
| 2003 | 978-0-85255-575-0 | Bernth Lindfors | Black African Literature in English 1997-1999 |
| 2006 | 978-0-85255-580-4 | Reinhard W. Sander · Bernth Lindfors | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer |
| 2004 | 978-0-85255-581-1 | Alain Ricard | Languages and Literatures of Africa: The Sands of Babel |
| 1999 | 978-0-85255-604-7 | Terence Ranger | Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe |
| 1996 | 978-0-85255-609-2 | Ngwabi Bhebe · T.O. Ranger | Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa) |
| 1995 | 978-0-85255-616-0 | Bill Freund | Insiders and Outsiders: Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-90 (Social History of Africa) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-618-4 | T.O. Ranger | Are We Not Also Men?: Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 (Social History of Africa) |
| 1996 | 978-0-85255-622-1 | Sandra E. Greene | Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: History of the Anlo-Ewe (Social History of Africa) |
| 1996 | 978-0-85255-660-3 | Ngwabi Bhebe · T.O. Ranger | Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa) |
| 2000 | 978-0-85255-692-4 | Jocelyn Alexander · JoAnn McGregor · Terence Ranger | Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (Social History of Africa) |
| 2002 | 978-0-85255-699-3 | Monica M.van Beusekom | Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office Du Niger, 1920-1960 (Social History of Africa) |
| 1992 | 978-0-85255-700-6 | Basil Davidson | Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-state |
| 1995 | 978-0-85255-705-1 | Bethwell A. Ogot · William R. Ochieng' · Ochieng William | Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-93 (Eastern African Studies) |
| 1994 | 978-0-85255-715-0 | J.D. Omer-Cooper | History of Southern Africa |
| 1996 | 978-0-85255-729-7 | Ali A. Mazrui · Alamin M. Mazrui | Swahili State and Society: The Political Economy of an African Language |
| 1998 | 978-0-85255-745-7 | Wunyabari O. Maloba | Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt (Blacks in the diaspora) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-746-4 | Howard Johnson · Karl Watson | The White Minority in the Caribbean (UNESCO general history of Africa) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-749-5 | Jan-Bart Gewald | Herero Heroes: A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 |
| 2001 | 978-0-85255-786-0 | Zewde Bahru | History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 (Eastern African Studies) |
| 1997 | 978-0-85255-810-2 | Alexander De Waal | Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (African Issues) |
| 1999 | 978-0-85255-812-6 | Jean-Francois Bayart · Stephen Ellis · Beatrice Hibou | The Criminalization of the State in Africa (African Issues) |
| 2009 | 978-0-85255-814-0 | Patrick Chabal · Jean-Pascal Daloz | Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (African Issues) |
| 1998 | 978-0-85255-815-7 | Christopher Clapham | African Guerrillas |
| 2001 | 978-0-85255-859-1 | Mahmood Mamdani | When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda |
| 2003 | 978-0-85255-868-3 | Catherine Campbell | Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Often Fail (African Issues) |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-879-9 | Steven L. Robins | Limits to Liberation After Apartheid: Citizenship, Governance and Culture in South Africa |
| '' | 978-0-85255-883-6 | David Keen | Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone |
| 2006 | 978-0-85255-884-3 | Ali A. Mazrui | Islam Between Globalization and Counter-terrorism |
| '' | 978-0-85255-890-4 | John Iliffe | African Aids Epidemic: A History |
| 2006 | 978-0-85255-891-1 | John Iliffe | African Aids Epidemic: A History |
| '' | 978-0-85255-892-8 | Jocelyn Alexander | Unsettled Land: State-making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893-2003 |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-895-9 | Helen Yanacopulos · Joseph Hanlon | Civil War, Civil Peace (Research in International Studies) |
| 2001 | 978-0-85255-917-8 | Anton Allahar | Caribbean Charisma |
| 2004 | 978-0-85255-935-2 | Paul Richards | No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-940-6 | Mark Leopold | Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation on an African Frontier (World Anthropology) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-941-3 | Mark Leopold | Inside West Nile: Violence, History and Representation on an African Frontier (World Anthropology) |
| 2002 | 978-0-85255-954-3 | Douglas A. Anthony | Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966-1986 (Social History of Africa) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-956-7 | Thomas V. McLendon | Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s (Social History of Africa) |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-960-4 | E.I. Steinhart | Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya |
| '' | 978-0-85255-961-1 | '' | Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya |
| 2003 | 978-0-85255-964-2 | Florence Bernault | A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa (Social History of Africa) |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-972-7 | Neil L. Whitehead | Violence |
| 2005 | 978-0-85255-973-4 | Neil L. Whitehead | Violence |
| '' | 978-0-85255-974-1 | Linda M. Whiteford · Scott Whiteford | Globalization, Water and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity |
| '' | 978-0-85255-980-2 | Gil J. Stein | Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives |
| '' | 978-0-85255-981-9 | Wyllys E. Andrews · William L. Fash | Copan: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom |
| 2008 | 978-0-85255-982-6 | Kenji Yoshida · John Mack | Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: Crisis or Renaissance? |
| 2007 | 978-0-85255-983-3 | Patrick Harries | Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa |
| '' | 978-0-85255-984-0 | Patrick Harries | Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa |
| 2006 | 978-0-85255-985-7 | Jan-Georg Deutsch | Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884-1914 (Eastern African Studies) |
| 2006 | 978-0-85255-986-4 | Jan-Georg Deutsch | Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884-1914 (Eastern African Studies) |
| 2008 | 978-0-85255-990-1 | K.M. Homewood | Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies (Sar Advanced Seminar) |
| '' | 978-0-85255-991-8 | Katherine Homewood | Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies |
| 2006 | 978-0-85255-995-6 | Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong | Themes in West Africa's History |