Suggested Readings

Atlases and Encyclopedias

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

Cutter, Charles H. Africa 2000. 35th ed. Harpers Ferry, W. Va.: Stryker-Post Publications, 2000.

The Diagram Group. Encyclopedia of African Peoples. New York: Facts on File, 2000.

^*Explorers: From Ancient Times to the Space Age. 3 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1999.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, ed. The Times Atlas of World Exploration: 3,000 Years of Exploring, Explorers, and Mapmaking. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.

Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P. The New Atlas of African History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Middleton, John, ed. Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997.

Murray, Jocelyn, ed. Cultural Atlas of Africa. Rev. ed. New York: Checkmark Books, 1998.

Page, Willie F. The Encyclopedia of African History and Culture. 3 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2001.

Parker, Sybil P., ed. World Geographical Encyclopedia: Volume 1, Africa. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Ramsay, F. Jeffress. Global Studies: Africa. 8th ed. Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Robinson, Francis. Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500. New York: Facts on File, 1982.

Simon, Reeva S., Philip Mattar, and Richard W. Bulliet. Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. New York: Macmillan, 1996.

History, General

^*Clarke, John Henrik. African People in World History. Baltimore, Md.: Black Classic Press, 1993.

Curtin, Philip D., ed. African History: From Earliest Times to Independence. New York: Longman Publishing, 1995.

Davidson, Basil. Modern Africa: A Social and Political History. 3d ed. New York: Longman Publishing, 1994.

Fage, J. D. A History of Africa. 3d ed. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Iliffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Oliver, Roland. The African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Present. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.

Reader, John. Africa: A Biography of the Continent. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1998.

Segal, Ronald. Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

Shillington, Kevin. History of Africa. Rev. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Colonial

Boahen, A. Adu, ed. Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912. New York: Random House, 1991.

^*Asterisk denotes book for young readers

^*Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest We Forget: The Passage From Africa to Slavery and Emancipation. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1997.

Individual Countries

Alie, Joe A. A New History of Sierra Leone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Berman, Bruce J., and John Lonsdale. Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992.

Berry, LaVerle, ed. Ghana: A Country Study. 3d ed. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, 1995.

Byrnes, Rita M., ed. Uganda: A Country Study. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, 1992.

——, ed. South Africa: A Country Study. 3d ed. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, 1992.

Fegley, Randall. The Congo. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Press, 1993.

Marcus, Harold G. A History of Ethiopia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Meditz, Sandra W., and Tim Merrill, eds. Zaire [Congo, Kinshasa]: A Country Study. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, 1994.

Ofcansky, Thomas P., and LaVerle Berry, eds. Ethiopia: A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, 1995.

Ruedy, John Douglas. Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Thompson, Leonard. A History of South Africa. 3d ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Prehistory and Archaeology

Clark, J. Desmond. The Prehistory of Africa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Hall, Martin. Archaeology Africa. London: J. Currey, 1996.

^*Haskins, James, and Kathleen Benson. African Beginnings. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1998.

Leakey, Richard E., and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Phillipson, David W. African Archaeology. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

^*Poynter, Margaret. The Leakeys: Uncovering the Origins of Humankind. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1997.

Robertshaw, Peter, ed. A History of African Archaeology. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1990.

Early History

Burstein, Stanley Mayer, ed. Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998.

Gann, Lewis H., and Peter Duignan. Africa and the World: An Introduction to the History of Sub-Saharan Africa From Antiquity to 1840. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2000.

Garlake, Peter. The Kingdoms of Africa. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1990.

^*Hart, George. Eyewitness: Ancient Egypt. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1995.

^*Koslow, Philip J. Kanem-Borno: One Thousand Years of Splendor. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994.

Phillipson, David W. Ancient Ethiopia: Aksum, Its Antecedents and Successors. London: British Museum Press, 1998.

^*Putnam, James. Life in Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years of Mystery to Unlock and Discover. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1994.

Religion and Mythology

Blakely, Thomas D., Walter E. A. van Beek, and Dennis L. Thompson, eds. Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1994.

Chidester, David. Religions of South Africa. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Gray, Richard. Black Christians and White Missionaries. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.

Mbiti, John. African Religions and Philosophy. 2d ed. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1991.

——. Introduction to African Religion. 2d ed. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1991.

^*Myths and Legends. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2000.

Ray, Benjamin C. African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community. 2d ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Exploration and Discovery

Brown, Don. Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Dunn, Ross E. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the Fourteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Hynson, Colin. Exploration of Africa. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1998.

Ibazebo, Isimeme. Exploration into Africa. New York: New Discovery Books, 1994.

^*McLoone, Margo. Women Explorers in Africa. Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, 1997.

Park, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. New York: Arno Press, 1971.

Severin, Timothy. The African Adventure: Four Hundred Years of Exploration in the Dangerous Dark Continent. New York: Dutton, 1973.

^*Worth, Richard. Stanley and Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa in World History. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2000.

Peoples

Appiah, Anthony. In My Father's House. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bohannan, Paul, and Philip Curtin. Africa and Africans. 4th ed. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1995.

Gibbs, James L., ed. Peoples of Africa. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1988.

Kuper, Hilda. The Swazi: A South African Kingdom. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 1986.

Mirza, Sarah, and Margaret Strobel. Three Swahili Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

^*Peoples of Africa. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2000.

Saitoti, Tepilit Ole. Maasai. New York: Abradale Press, 1993.

Shostak, Marjorie . Nisa: the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall. The Harmless People. New York: Viking Press, 1989.

Independence Movements and Independence

Cabrita, João M. Mozambique: The Tortuous Road to Democracy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Hargreaves, John D. Decolonization in Africa. 2d ed. New York: Longman, 1996.

Legum, Colin. Africa Since Independence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Mazrui, Ali A., ed. Africa Since 1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

^*McSharry, Patra, ed. Apartheid: Calibrations of Color. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1991.

^*Meisel, Jacqueline Drobis. South Africa at the Crossroads. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Ogot, Bethwell A., ed. Decolonization and Independence in Kenya 1940-1993. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995.

Okoth, P. Godfrey, and Bethwell A. Ogot, eds. Conflict in Contemporary Africa. Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2000.

Osaghae, Eghosa E. Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Posel, Deborah. The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961: Conflict and Compromise. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Press, Robert M. The New Africa: Dispatches From a Changing Continent. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

Arts and Architecture

Africa: The Art of a Continent: 100 Works of Power and Beauty. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1996.

^*Barlow, Sean, and Banning Eyre. Afropop! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music. Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, 1995.

Bender, Wolfgang. Sweet Mother: Modern African Music. Translated by Wolfgang Fries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Blier, Suzanne Preston. The Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998.

Cameron, Kenneth M. Africa on Film: Beyond Black and White. New York: Continuum, 1994.

^*Chanda, Jacqueline. African Arts and Cultures. Worcester, Mass.: Davis Publications, 1993.

Clarke, Duncan, and Joann Padgett, eds . The Art of African Textiles. San Diego, Calif.: Thunder Bay Press, 1997.

Diawara, Manthia. African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Elleh, Nnamdi. African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Etherton, Michael. The Development of African Drama. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1982.

Garlake, Peter S. The Hunter's Vision: The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.

Gerster, Georg. Churches in Rock: Early Christian Art in Ethiopia. London: Phaidon, 1970.

Gillon, Werner. A Short History of African Art. New York: Facts on File, 1984.

Graham, Ronnie. The World of African Music. Chicago: Research Associates. Distributed by Frontline Distribution International, 1992.

Kerr, David. African Popular Theater: From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present Day. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995.

Malkmus, Lizbeth, and Roy Armes . Arab and African Film Making. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1991.

Monti, Nicolas. Africa Then: Photographs, 1840-1918. New York: Knopf. Distributed by Random House, 1987.

Picton, John, Rayda Becker, et al. The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition, and Lurex. London: Barbican Art Gallery: Lund Humphries Publishers, 1995.

^*Putnam, James. Egyptian Pyramid. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Robins, Gay. The Art of Ancient Egypt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Savary, Claude (Ph. D). The Dances of Africa. New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1996.

Temko, Florence, et al. Traditional Crafts from Africa. Minneapolis, Minn.: Lerner Publications, 1996.

Wilcox, A. R. The Rock Art of Africa. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1984.

Vogel, Susan Mullin, ed. Africa Explores: Twentieth Century African Art. New York: Center for African Art. Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Neues Pubishing Co., 1994.

Literature

^*Abrahams, Roger. African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

Brown, Lloyd Wellesley. Women Writers in Black Africa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Cox, C. Brian, ed. African Writers. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997.

^*Fairman, Tony. Bury My Bones but Keep My Words: African Tales for Retelling. New York: Puffin Books, 1994.

^*Halsey, Peggy, Gail J. Morlan, and Melba Smith. If You Want to Know Me: Reflections of Life in Southern Africa. New York: Friendship Press, 1976.

^*Hayes, Barbara. Folktales and Fables of the Middle East and Africa. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994. [New—classified as Young Adult by Barnes & Noble.]

^*Leslau, Charlotte. African Proverbs. Rev. ed. New York: Pauper Press, 1982.

Okpewho, Isidore. African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Owomoyela, Oyekan, ed. A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

^*Vernon-Jackson, Hugh. African Folk Tales. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publishing, 1999.

Biographies

^*Andronik, Catherine M. Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself. New York: Atheneum, 2000.

Aseka, Eric Masinde. Jomo Kenyatta: A Biography. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1992.

Bierman, John. Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.

De Klerk, Willem. F. W. de Klerk: The Man in His Time. Johannesburg: J. Ball. Distributed by Thorold's Africana Books, 1991.

^*Denenberg, Barry. Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk to Freedom: A Biography. New York: Scholastic, 1991.

^*Diamond, Arthur. Anwar Sadat. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, 1994.

Du Boulay, Shirley. Tutu: Voice of the Voiceless. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1988.

^*Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. African Portraits. Austin, Tex.: Raintree/Steck Vaughn, 1993.

Ingham, Kenneth. Obote: A Political Biography. New York: Routledge, 1994.

^*Knight, Virginia Curtin, ed. African Biography. 3d ed. Detroit: UXL, 1999.

Leakey, Louis S. B. By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932- 1951. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Leakey, Mary Douglas. Disclosing the Past. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Lovell, Mary S. A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton. New York: Norton, 1998.

Mandela, Nelson. Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.

Morell, Virginia. Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Nkrumah, Kwame. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1957.

^*Rasmussen, R. Kent. Modern African Political Leaders (Global Profiles Series). New York: Facts on File, 1998.

Shillington, Kevin. Ghana and the Rawlings Factor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Soyinka, Wole. The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka. New York: Noonday Press, 1988.

Thomas, Antony. Rhodes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Vaillant, Janet G. Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Other

Harris, Jessica B. The Africa Cookbook: Tastes of a Continent. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

LeVine, Robert A., et al. Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

^*Scoones, Simon. The Sahara and Its People. New York: Thomson Learning, 1993.

Toulmin, Camilla. Cattle, Women, and Wells: Managing Household Survival in the Sahel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

On-line Resources

Africa Daily. Provides daily news reports for entire African continent, as well as several links to other African web sites.
www.africadaily.com

Africa: South of the Sahara, Stanford University. Contains a multitude of links to web sites concerning African issues and individual country information.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

African Information Centre. Provides web site links to academic centers, governmental information, and current events.
http://www.africainformation.co.uk/index.html

African Policy Information Center. Discusses political, economic, racial, and health struggles in Africa, and promotes positive change.
www.africapolicy.org

African Studies Center, Michigan State University. Provides various resources of information on Africa, including access to the University's Africana library.
http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies/

African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. Contains country-specific data and information on African organizations in the U.S.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

All Africa Global Media. Provides daily news reports from over 80 media organizations on events occurring throughout Africa. www.allafrica.com

CIA World Factbook 2000 online. Provides updated statistical information on each country.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

New Africa. Contains information on business, economy, news, and tourism.
www.newafrica.com

The Story of Africa: African History From the Dawn of Time, BBC World Service. Provides a detailed historical account of the continent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml

U.S. Aid in Africa. Discusses the actions the U.S. has taken to improve the political and economic situations in Africa.
http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/

U.S. State Department—Bureau of African Affairs. Provides country and regional information on U.S. involvement in Africa, particularly sub-Saharan.
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/

World Atlas. Provides maps of Africa and individual nations, plus some statistical information on each country.
www.worldatlas.com