2000 - 'Beyond our wildest dreams' : the United Democratic Front and the transformation of South Africa. Charlottesville [etc.]: University Press of Virginia, Reconsiderations in Southern African history, 2000. ISBN 0813918618
2000 - Afrikanen in Nederland. Amsterdam [etc.]: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen [etc.], 2000. ISBN 906832294X (met Nina Tellegen)
2002 - (ed.)Merchants, missionaries & migrants: 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations, Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2002. ISBN 906832523X
2005 - Zwarte Hollanders: Afrikaanse soldaten in Nederlands-Indië. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2005. ISBN 9068324985 (Indonesische vertaling: Serdadu Afrika di Hindia Belanda 1831-1945. Jakarta, Komunitas Bambu, 2011. ISBN 978-979-3731-98-8
2010 - Nelson Mandela in een notendop. Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam, 2010. ISBN 9789035135642
2019 - Wax prints in West Africa : unravelling the myth of Dutch colonial soldiers as cultural brokers, in Osei-Tutu J.W. (Ed.) Forts, castles and society in West Africa; Gold Coast and Dahomey, 1450-1960, African history no. 7 Leiden: Brill. 92-118. (hoofdstuk in boek)