Africa Adorned
by Angela Fisher
Listed under African Art
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
by Jane Goodall, Dale Peterson (Editor)
Listed under Jane Goodall
Africa:
African History Before 1885
by Toyin Falola
Book Description: Africa: Volume 1 begins a series of books which adopt
a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array
of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and
introducing readers to the diversity of African experiences and cultural
expressions. Toyin Falola has brought together African studies professors
from a variety of schools and settings. Writing from their individual areas
of expertise, these authors work together to break general stereotypes
about Africa, focusing instead on the substantive issues of the African
past from an African perspective. The texts are richly illustrated and
include maps and timelines to make cultural and historical movements clearer,
and suggestions for further reading will help readers broaden their own
particular interests. Africa provides new perspectives that challenge the
accepted ways of studying Africa, flexibility for instructors to structure
courses, and encouragement for readers who are eager to learn about the
diversity of the African experience.
Volume 1, African History Before 1885, introduces students to the various
precolonial histories of Africa. Instead of generalizing about the continent,
the chapters reconstruct the histories of many different societies in various
historical periods.
Paperback from Carolina Academic Press
Book Published: 01 October, 2001
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Africana:
The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor)
(Hardcover - November 1999)
African Rock Art : Paintings and Engravings on Stone
by David Coulson, Alec Campbell
Listed under Prehistoric Rock
Art
African
Architecture: Evolution and Transformation
by Nnamdi Elleh
Hardcover: 382 pagesMcGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN: 0070215065; (September 1,1996)
African
Images : Recent Studies and Text in Cinema (Annual Selected Papers of the
ALA, No. 8)
by Maureen N. Eke (Editor), et al
(Paperback - April 2000)
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An Army at Dawn
by Rick Atkinson
Listed under North African Campaign
Africa:
A Companion to the PBS Series
by John Reader, Michael S. Lewis (Photographer)
(Hardcover - September 2001)
AIDS in Africa
by Max Essex et al.
Listed under AIDS & HIV
Black
Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon, et al
Paperback: 320 pages
Grove Press; ISBN: 0802150845; Reissue edition (October
1991)
African Ark : People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn
of Africa
by Carol Beckwith (Photographer), et al
Listed under Ethiopia
Cats of Africa
by Paul Bosman (Illustrator), Anthony Hall-Martin (Editor)
Listed under Big Cats
Destruction
of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
by Chancellor Williams
(Paperback - February 1992)
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
Listed under Zimbabwe
The Founder : Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
by Robert I. Rotberg
Listed under South Africa
A History of Art in Africa
by Monica Blackmun Visona (Editor), et al
Listed under African Art
Hail
Orisha : A Phenomenology of a West African Religion in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century (Studies of Religion in Africa, 19)
by Peter McKenzie
(Hardcover - January 1997)
Maasai
by Tepilit Ole Saitoti, Carol Beckwith (Photographer)
Listed under Kenya
Mandela,
Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey
by Lynne Duke
Book Description In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington
Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting
journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates
a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation
and horrors.
For four years as her newspaper's Johannesburg bureau chief, Lynne Duke
cut a rare figure as a black American woman foreign correspondent as she
raced from story to story in numerous countries of central and southern...
Hardcover: 290 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.18 x
9.50 x 6.36
Publisher: Doubleday; ; (January 21, 2003)
ISBN: 0385503989
The
Scramble for Africa : White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876
to 1912
by Thomas Pakenham
Paperback Reprint edition (December 1992)
Avon Books (Pap Trd); ISBN: 0380719991
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The
Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara Glowczewska (Translator)
When Africa makes international news, it is usually because war has
broken out or some bizarre natural disaster has taken a large number of
lives. Westerners are appallingly ignorant of Africa otherwise, a condition
that the great Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuœciñski helps
remedy with this book based on observations gathered over more than four
decades. Kapuœciñski first went to Africa in 1957, a time pregnant with
possibilities as one country after another declared independence from the
European colonial powers. Those powers, he writes, had "crammed the approximately
ten thousand kingdoms, federations, and stateless but independent tribal
associations that existed on this continent in the middle of the nineteenth
century within the borders of barely forty colonies." When independence
came, old interethnic rivalries, long suppressed, bubbled up to the surface,
and the continent was consumed in little wars of obscure origin, from caste-based
massacres in Rwanda and ideological conflicts in Ethiopia to hit-and-run
skirmishes among Tuaregs and Bantus on the edge of the Sahara. With independence,
too, came the warlords, whose power across the continent derives from the
control of food, water, and other life-and-death resources, and whose struggles
among one another fuel the continent's seemingly endless civil wars. When
the warlords "decide that everything worthy of plunder has been extracted,"
Kapuscinski writes, wearily, they call a peace conference and are rewarded
with credits and loans from the First World, which makes them richer and
more powerful than ever, "because you can get significantly more from the
World Bank than from your own starving kinsmen." Constantly surprising
and eye-opening, Kapuscinski's book teaches us much about contemporary
events and recent history in Africa. It is also further evidence for why
he is considered to be one of the best journalists at work today.
--Gregory
McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 325 pages
Knopf; ISBN: 0679454918; 1 Ed edition (April 17, 2001)
The
Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara Glowczewska (Translator)
(Paperback - April 2002)
Human Being Died That Night : A South African Story of Forgiveness
by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Listed under South Africa
The
Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington (Translator)
(Paperback - April 1986)
Lest
We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional
Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust
Exhibit
by Velma Maia Thomas
(Hardcover - October 1997)
Geography
of Sub-Saharan Africa (2nd Edition)
by Samuel Aryeetey-Attoh (Editor), Barbara E. McDade
(Hardcover)
White
Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership, and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala
by Jay Spaulding (Editor), Stephanie Beswick (Editor)
(Paperback - December 1999)
Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Across Africa
by Ann Jones
Listed under African Travel Books
The Realm of a Rain-Queen
by Eileen Jensen Krige
Written in the 1940's about the legendary Lovedu
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1945-1994
by Okwui Enwezor (Editor), et al
Hardcover: 496 pages
Prestel USA; ISBN: 3791325027; (April 2001)
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