The history of the Scramble for Africa?

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Does anyone know of any decent books on the scramble for Africa, the European slave trade's development and power-struggles for control over land (i.e. the battles between Britain and Holland for control over southern Africa)?. It'd be particularly helpful if anyone knew of books on these things that focused specifically on the west-African coast.

If anyone can help me with this, I'd appreciate it immensely.

[Teacher]

Best book is called... wait for it... The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakeham.

[brigadista]

from who's perspective?

you may find some source material in the school of oriental and african studies library [SOAS]

here is a link:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/

[ComradeOm]

Pakeham's work is probably the best single-volume work available on the subject. It's solid