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
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Africa:
African Cultures and Societies Before 1885 Vol 2
by Toyin Falola
Africa: Volume 2 is part of a series of books which adopts 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 2, African Cultures and Societies Before 1885 provides a broad
view of precolonial experiences and expressions in Africa. The book focuses
on culture as a means of understanding both the traditions that thrived
throughout Africa and the efforts of modern Africans to reclaim their cultural
past in lands that have been divided and exploited by Western imperial
powers.
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Africana:
The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor)
(Hardcover)
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,)
African
History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by John Parker, Richard Rathbone
Paperback from Oxford University Press, USA
Africans:
The History of a Continent (African Studies)
by John
Iliffe
Paperback from Cambridge University Press
African
History: From Earliest Times to Independence
by Philip
Curtin, Steven
Feierman, Leonard
Thompson, Jan
Vansina
Paperback from Longman
The
Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
by Martin Meredith
Paperback from PublicAffairs
History
of Africa, Revised 2nd Edition
by Kevin Shillington
Paperback from Palgrave Macmillan
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Africans
and Their History: Second Revised Edition
by Joseph E. Harris
Paperback from Plume
Africa:
A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader
Paperback from Vintage
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The
African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
by Cheikh Anta Diop
Paperback from Lawrence Hill Books
The
Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
by Christopher Ehret
Paperback from University of Virginia Press
The
Penguin Atlas of African History: Revised Edition
by Colin McEvedy
Paperback from Penguin (Non-Classics)
African
Images : Recent Studies and Text in Cinema (Annual Selected Papers of the
ALA, No. 8)
by Maureen N. Eke (Editor), et al
(Paperback)
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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)
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
The End of French Rule in Cameroon
by Martin Atangana
Paperback from University Press Of America
Listed under Cameroon History
Cameroon: Art and Kings
Paperback from Paul Holberton Pub
Listed under Cameroon History
Cameroon
in Pictures (Visual Geography (Twenty-First Century))
by Rudolf Steiner, Lerner Publishing Group, Jim Hathaway
Hardcover from Lerner Publishing Group
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)
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, )
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
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
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The
Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara Glowczewska (Translator)
(Paperback)
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)
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)
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 )
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