African Arguments series
Published since 2005, a series of short books about contemporary Africa and the critical issues and debates surrounding the continent.

International African Library Series
This major monograph series has published over 50 critically acclaimed studies.

Urban Africa Book Series
The URBAN AFRICA Book Series , published by UCL Press and the International African Institute, provides a platform for critical, in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues affecting urban environments across the African continent.

Readings in ... series
Edited volumes bring together the key texts, articles and book chapters relating to some main topical areas in African studies.

Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
This series of books seeks to provide accessible but in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues affecting countries across the African continent.

Classics in African Anthropology
Out-of-print classic works of anthropology, IAI-originated and others, are republished with new introductions setting the originals in context

International African Seminars Series
The IAI’s International African Seminars and the volumes based on them have long been regarded as one of the institute’s most important contributions to African Studies. Many of the volumes emanating from the seminars, the first of which was held at Makerere University in 1959, have become classic assessments and syntheses.

African Issues Series
The African Issues series was published for the IAI by James Currey Publishers, now part of the Boydell & Brewer Group. The series is now closed. See James Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer www.jamescurrey.com for further details including how to order books.

Other Monographs
Occasional monographs in African studies are published outside the established series of the IAI.

African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century The International African Institute and Routledge have re-issued 79 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1988 in association with the International African Institute. Unavailable outside a few key libraries, many of these republished volumes were at the cutting edge of a fieldwork and ethnographic revolution in African anthropology.

Ethnographic Survey of Africa
We are proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with Routledge. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as ethnographic research.

Linguistic Surveys of Africa
This landmark series has been reissued by Routledge in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1930 and 1987, provides an invaluable resource for the study of African languages and for critically reflecting on the history of the field.

African Seminars
Originally published between 1986 and 1989 the 8 volumes in this set reflect the research and debate surrounding many issues for the African economy, society and culture and as such make a vital contribution to effective development, both rural and urban. They re-issue key titles from the International African Library and the International African Seminars and address themes of direct relevance to contemporary Africa on topics as diverse as medicine, migration, housing, pastorialism and marriage.

Routledge Revivals
Six books have been published in this series.

History of the Tiv
History of the Tiv by Akiga Sai, published by the International African Institute / Bookcraft, Nigeria

Letters from Liberia The International African Institute, Centre of African Studies and SOAS sponsored the publication of the late J.D.Y. Peel's Letters from Liberia (ISBN 978-0-72860-407-0, 68pp, June 2016).

The Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was first published in 1967. Copyright has since reverted to the author. The work is published, by permission of the author, by the International African Institute on this site licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.untry.