1. Canadian Feed The Children
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
2. Chocolate Nations
   Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
   Resource Type: Book
   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.
3. Cotton-pickin trade
   US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
4. An Economic History of West Africa
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   An examination of the economy of West Africa from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
5. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   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.
6. How Boko Haram Is Changing International Politics in Western and Central Africa
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Two suicide attacks on June 22 in Maroua, northern Cameroon, left several people dead and many others wounded. Ten days earlier, 15 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. The attack came exactly three weeks after a similar bombing claimed the lives of 27 people in the same town.
7. International Crisis Group
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
9. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
   What are we eating?
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   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.
10. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
    
11. Senegal's fishing community will act on foreign fleets if government doesn't
    Senegal's fisherman blame foreign trawlers for taking their catch
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Annual catches by local fishermen in Senegal are down seventy-five percent from catches ten years ago, resulting in hunger and economic instability. Community leaders in Senegal are warning developed nations whose fleets trawl their waters that overfishing may lead to piracy as it has in Somalia.
12. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
    
13. The Socialist Register 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1967
    
14. Which Way Africa?
    The Search for a New Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
15. World Press Freedom Day: Statement from the Media Foundation for West Africa
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The theme for this year's celebration of World Press Freedom Day, Media, Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, could not have been more appropriate in any other year than this one, particularly for countries in West Africa.

Experts on West Africa in the Sources Directory

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