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AUTHOR: ABRAHAMS, PETER
TITLE:
MINE BOY
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1963
Type: Book
Collation: 252 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.50
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90562-7

Subjects: South Africa/Fiction

This novel tells the story of Xuma, a rural South African boy who finds misery and oppression when he goes to work in the mines.

AUTHOR: ABRAHAMS, PETER
TITLE:
TELL FREEDOM
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book

Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 571 11777 5

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Apartheid

This autobiography recreates Peter Abrahams upbringing in the slums of Johannesburg, South Africa. It describes his thirst for knowledge and his search for a world beyond the oppressive race-defined society of South Africa.

AUTHOR: ACHEBE, CHINUA
TITLE:
A MAN OF THE PEOPLE
Publisher: Doubleday
Copyright: 1966
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.95
ISBN (pap): 0 3850 8616 4

Subjects: Nigeria/Fiction/West Africa

A satirical expose of a corrupt post-colonial government.

AUTHOR: ACHEBE, CHINUA
TITLE:
NO LONGER AT EASE
Publisher: Heinnemann
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.95
ISBN (pap): 0 435 90528 7

Subjects: Fiction/Nigeria/West Africa

Often regarded as the sequel to Things Fall Apart, this novel focuses on Obi, the grandson of Okonkwo. A once promising idealist, Obi succumbs to corruption and is disgraced.

AUTHOR: ACHEBE, CHINUA
TITLE:
THINGS FALL APART
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1962
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $4.00
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90526-0

Subjects: Nigeria/Fiction/West Africa/Igbo

Achebe's classic novel of colonial intrusion and the disruption of Igbo society.

AUTHOR: AFIGBO, A. E.
TITLE:
THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA, 2 VOLS.
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $23.75 ea

Subjects: Africa/History

Five well-known historians provide a comprehensive and thoroughly researched survey of African history from the 19th century.

TITLE: AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA
Publisher: Europa Publications / Gale
Copyright: Annual
Type: Annual
Grade: YA
Price: $255.00

Subjects: Africa/History

This yearly publication provides a thorough anaysis of events in each sub-Saharan African country.

AUTHOR: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
TITLE:
THE RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME : A POLICY FRAMEWORK
Publisher: Umanyano Publications
Copyright: 1994
Type: Book
Collation: 147 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): R20.00
Place Of Publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Subjects: South Africa/Politics and government

This document was written by the African National Congress party in consultation with other mass organizations in the wider civil society of the new democratic South Africa. It provides a detailed statement of the challenges facing the new government and the strategies the party has proposed to address the legacy of apartheid and meet the needs of the people.

AUTHOR: AJAYE, J. F.; CROWDER, MICHAEL EDITORS
TITLE:
HISTORICAL ATLAS OF AFRICA
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1985
Type: Book
Collation: 168 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $82.80
ISBN: 0-521-25353-5

Subjects: Atlases/Africa/History

Provides over 300 maps of Africa. Comprehensive in terms of time periods and regions covered.

AUTHOR: ANGELOU, MAYA
TITLE:
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 210 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0 394 52143 9
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: Ghana/West Africa/Biography

In the early years of Ghana's independence, Maya Angelou joined a community of African Americans living in Ghana. This book recounts her experiences during this time. America's Malcolm X and Julian Mayfield, Liberia's William Tubman, and Ghana's Efua Sutherland are some of the more well-known people with whom Angelou interacted. Much of the book, however, is about a newcomer adjusting to everyday life in Ghana and embracing the land of her ancestors.

AUTHOR: ANQUANDAH, JAMES
TITLE:
REDISCOVERING GHANA'S PAST
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 161 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: o.p.

Subjects: Ghana/History/Archaeology/West Africa

An introductory volume on the archaeology and early history of Ghana.

AUTHOR: ASANTE, MOLEFI KETE
TITLE:
AFROCENTRICITY
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 126 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 86543 067 5

Subjects: Philosophy/Africa/African Americans/Diaspora

In this book, Asante provides the philosophical underpinnings for the concept of Afrocentricity.

AUTHOR: ATMORE, ANTHONY; OLIVER, ROLAND
TITLE:
AFRICA IN THE IRON AGE, 500 B.C. TO A.D. 1400
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1975
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 0-521-20598-0
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-521-09900-5

Subjects: Africa/History

Two distinguished historians provide a survey of African history in early, ancient, and medieval times.

AUTHOR: AWOONOR, KOFI
TITLE:
BREAST OF THE EARTH : A SURVEY OF THE HISTORY, CULTURE AND LITERATU
Publisher: NOK
Copyright: 1983
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0-685-03583-2
Price (pap): $7.95
ISBN (pap): 0-88357-103-X

Subjects: Literary criticism/Literature/Africa

This popular introduction to African literature examines literature and the arts in relation to history philosophy, culture, and religion. Written by one of Africa's outstanding writers.

AUTHOR: BA, MARIAMA
TITLE:
SO LONG A LETTER
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 90 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $6.50
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90555-4

Subjects: Senegal/Fiction/West Africa

Recounts the pain and hopes of a sophisticated Senegalese woman who has been discarded by her husband. Winner of the 1980 Noma award for best book of the year.

AUTHOR: BEN - JOCHANNAN, YOSEF A. A.
TITLE:
BLACK MAN OF THE NILE AND HIS FAMILY
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 428 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0 933121 26 1

Subjects: History/Egypt/Nile Valley/North Africa

Discusses human origins in Africa; the high cultures of Nubia, Meroe, and Egypt; and the African origins of "Greek philosophy."

AUTHOR: BENDER, WOLFGANG
TITLE:
SWEET MOTHER: MODERN AFRICAN MUSIC
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 235 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 0 226 04253 7
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0 226 04254 5
Place Of Publication: Chicago
Subjects: Subjects: Popular music/Africa

A compact history of modern African music. The title comes from the name of a hit song by Prince Nico Mbarga, a Nigerian Highlife star

AUTHOR: BENJAMIN, ANNE EDITOR
TITLE:
WINNIE MANDELA: PART OF MY SOUL WENT WITH HIM
Publisher: Norton
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 164 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $5.95
ISBN (pap): 0-393-30290-3

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Winnie Mandela

This collection of letters and interviews tells the story of Winnie Mandela's life and political development.

AUTHOR: BENSON, MARY
TITLE:
NELSON MANDELA: THE MAN AND THE MOVEMENT
Publisher: Norton
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 143 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 0 531 11141 5

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Nelson Mandela

A biography of the well-known anti-apartheid foe.

AUTHOR: BERNAL, MARTIN
TITLE:
BLACK ATHENA: THE AFROASIATIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION, 2 VOLS.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 575 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $17.95 ea
ISBN (pap): 0-8135-1277-8

Subjects: Egypt/History/Greece/North Africa

In an impressive display of scholarship, Bernal marshalls evidence to demonstrate the Afroasiatic roots of Greek civilization. He concludes that the "Aryan model" of Greek development was a result of European racism and anti-Semitism.

AUTHOR: BERNSTEIN, HILDA
TITLE:
FOR THEIR TRIUMPHS AND FOR THEIR TEARS
Publisher: International Defence and Aid Fund
Copyright: 1985
Type: Pamphlet
Grade:
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-904759-58-X

Subjects: South Africa/Women

Biographical sketches of major anti-apartheid activists.

TITLE: BEYOND THE BARRICADES: POPULAR RESISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: Aperture
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 144 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0-89381-375-3

Subjects: South Africa/Artistic photography

This collection of black-and-white photographs documents resistance against apartheid during the 1980s.

AUTHOR: BIKO, STEVE
TITLE:
I WRITE WHAT I LIKE
Publisher: Harper
Copyright: 1978
Type: Book
Collation: 216 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 06 25005 4

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid

Steve Biko led the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa until his death in detention. This is a collection of his writings.

AUTHOR: BLAKE, GERALD ET AL
TITLE:
CAMBRIDGE ATLAS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 132 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $429.95

Subjects: North Africa/Atlases

Provides 58 maps with explanatory material. Includes the following topics: Physical Environment, Cultural, Demographic, Economic, Communications, and Special Topics.

AUTHOR: BLYDEN, EDWARD
TITLE:
CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM AND THE NEGRO RACE
Publisher: ECA Assoc.
Copyright: 1887
Type: Book
Collation: 408 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $21.95
ISBN (pap): 0 685 45611 0

Subjects: Diaspora/Africa/Christianity/Islam/Religion

In this classic work, a 19th century West Indian immigrant to West Africa analyzes Western motives in Africa, describes the condition of Africans and articulates his own program for Africa's regeneration.

AUTHOR: BOAHEN, ADU
TITLE:
AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON COLONIALISM
Publisher: Johns Hopkins
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 144 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8018-3931-9

Subjects: Africa/Colonialism

This collection of lectures by a distinguished historian describes how Africans perceived and reacted to colonialism.

AUTHOR: BOHANNAN, PAUL; CURTIN, PHILIP
TITLE:
AFRICA AND AFRICANS
Publisher: Waveland Press
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0-88133-347-6

Subjects: Africa/History

An anthropologist and historian provide a study of Africa's past and cultural institutions.

AUTHOR: BRAVMANN, RENE
TITLE:
AFRICAN ISLAM
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Copyright: 1983
Type: Book
Collation: 120 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $17.95
ISBN (pap): 0-87474-281-1

Subjects: Islam/West Africa/Art

A catalogue of the National Museum of African Art's exhibit on "African Islam."

AUTHOR: BRINK, ANDRE
TITLE:
A DRY WHITE SEASON
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 1980
Type: Book
Collation: 316 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.95
ISBN (pap): 14-006890-2

Subjects: South Africa/Fiction/Apartheid

An apathetic Afrikaner teacher is jolted by the deaths of a black co-worker and his son. His investigation of the deaths changes his view of the government and the white society in which he has comfortably lived. Confronting apartheid leads to the disruption of his family and murder. Also made into a movie.

AUTHOR: BROWDER, ANTHONY
TITLE:
NILE VALLEY CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION
Publisher: Institute of Karmic Guidance
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 285 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0 924944 04 8
Price (pap): $16.95
ISBN (pap): 0 924944 03 X

Subjects: Egypt/History/North Africa

AUTHOR: BUNN, DAVID; TAYLOR, JANE
TITLE:
FROM SOUTH AFRICA: NEW WRITINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND ART
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Collation: 501 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $43.00
ISBN: 0-226-08035-8

Subjects: South Africa/Literature/Art

The poems, short fiction, speeches, and black-and-white photographs in this collection reveal the injustices of apartheid and the efforts of people to change the system.

AUTHOR: BURMAN, SANDRA AND REYNOLDS, PAMELA
TITLE:
GROWING UP IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY
Publisher: Raven/Ohio University Press (dist.)
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 454 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0 8101 0860 7
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8101 0861 5

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid/Southern Africa

Seventeen essays on growing up in South Africa.

AUTHOR: CALLINICOS, LULI
TITLE:
WORKING LIFE: FACTORIES, TOWNSHIPS AND POPULAR CULTURE ON THE RAND
Publisher: Raven Press / Ohio University Press (dist.)
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 262 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $22.95
ISBN (pap): 0-86975-278-2

Subjects: South Africa/History/Southern Africa

This social history traces the growth of South Africa's manufacturing industry.

TITLE: CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AFRICA, 8 VOLS
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1975-84
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $749.00 set

Subjects: Africa/History

A comprehensive general history of Africa from earliest times to the 1970s. Contains scholarly articles, good maps, and extensive bibliographies.

AUTHOR: CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE
TITLE:
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART
Publisher: Holmes and Meier
Copyright: 1970
Type: Book
Collation: 40 pp.
Grade: H
ISBN: 0 8419 0040 X
Price (pap): $7.50
Place Of Publication: New York

Subjects: Art, Modern/Africa

AUTHOR: CAMERON, TREWHELLA; SPIES, S. B.
TITLE:
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA: THE REAL STORY 2ND. UPDATED EDITION
Publisher: Random House / Reader's Digest
Copyright: 1995
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 0 947008 90 X
Subjects: South Africa/History

A general history of South Africa from early times to the late 1980s. Excellent color photographs.

AUTHOR: CHINWEIZU, ONWUCHEKWA ET AL
TITLE:
TOWARD THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN LITERATURE
Publisher: Howard University Press
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 192 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8825 8123 6
Place Of Publication: Washington, DC
Subjects: Africa/Literature

Examines the effect colonialism has had on the development of African literature and offers a sharp rebuke to African authors who employ "Eurocentric" ideas and literary forms.

AUTHOR: CHINWEIZU, ONWUCHEKWA
TITLE:
VOICES FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY AFRICA GRIOTS AND TOWNCRIERS
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 424 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-571-14930-8

Subjects: Literature/Africa

This anthology of Chinweizu's favorites contains a variety of literary forms. He describes the collection as "Afrocentric, non-academic literature which, by rights, should form the mainstream of African literary culture."

AUTHOR: CHINWEIZU, ONWUCHEKWA
TITLE:
THE WEST AND THE REST OF US: WHITE PREDATORS, BLACK SLAVERS AND THE AFRICAN ELITE
Publisher: NOK
Copyright: 1978
Type: Book
Collation: 520 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 0-88357-015-7
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-88357-016-5

Subjects: Africa/Colonialism/History

A fiery and masterful overview of Western imperialism in Africa. The book covers African responses and experiences with the West from the 15th century to the end of World War II. The book is addressed "to the Third World... pleading for a moment to listen closely and analyze the tunes being played to us by the Pied Pipers of progress from the West...."

AUTHOR: CHIRIMUUTA, RICHARD; CHIRIMUUTA, ROSALIND
TITLE:
AIDS, AFRICA AND RACISM
Publisher: Free Association Books
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 192 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $16.00
ISBN (pap): 1 85343 077 3

Subjects: Aids/Health/Africa

The authors of this work argue that racist preconceptions guided the collection of data on AIDS in Africa. They debunk the idea that AIDS originated in Africa.

AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, IAIN
TITLE:
SAMORA MICHEL: A BIOGRAPHY
Publisher: Humanities
Type: Book
Collation: 224 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $15.00
ISBN (pap): 0 9017 8752 3

Subjects: Biographies/Mozambique/Samora Michel/Southern Africa

This biography of Mozambique's charismatic first president focuses on his life in its broader historical and political contexts. Christie looks at Machel's development as a military leader and his role in the Mozambican revolution.

AUTHOR: CLARKE, JOHN HENRIK
TITLE:
MARCUS GARVEY AND HIS VISION OF AFRICA
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1974
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $10.00
ISBN (pap): 0-394-71888-7

Subjects: History/Africa/African Americans/Diaspora

This edited volume includes Garvey's writings and interpretative analyses of Garvey by well-known scholars.

AUTHOR: COLLINS, JOHN
TITLE:
WEST AFRICAN POP ROOTS
Publisher: Temple University Press
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 349 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 0 87722 793 4
Price (pap): $19.95
ISBN (pap): 0 87722 916 3
Place Of Publication: Philadelphia
Subjects: Popular music/West Africa/Biography

AUTHOR: COLVIN, LUCIE
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SENEGAL
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 355 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.50
ISBN: 0-8108-1369-6

Subjects: Senegal/West Africa/Encyclopedia and dictionaries/History/Biography

A detailed reference work that lists individuals, places, terms, and important historical events. Also includes maps and statistical tables.

AUTHOR: CONNAH, GRAHAM
TITLE:
AFRICAN CIVILIZATION: PRECOLONIAL CITIES AND STATES IN TROPICAL AFRICA
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 259 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $44.50
ISBN: 0-521-26666
Price (pap): $15.95
ISBN (pap): 0-521-31992-7

Subjects: Africa/History/Cities and Towns/Architecture

This survey of precolonial cities and states integrates history and archaeology.

AUTHOR: CURTIN, PHILIP
TITLE:
AFRICA REMEMBERED : NARRATIVES BY WEST AFRICANS FROM THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Copyright: 1967
Type: Book
Collation: 376 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0-299-04281-2
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-299-04284-7

Subjects: History/Africa/Enslaved persons/Slavery

These ten personal narratives provide a vivid look at remembrances of life in Africa and the shock of enslavement.

AUTHOR: CURTIN, PHILIP
TITLE:
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: A CENSUS
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Copyright: 1972
Type: Book
Collation: 358 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 2990 5404 7

Subjects: Africa/Enslaved persons/History/Slavery

In this statistical analysis, Curtin presents his estimates of the numbers of Africans enslaved during the period of the Atlantic slave trade.

AUTHOR: DANAHER, KEVIN
TITLE:
BEYOND SAFARIS: A GUIDE TO BUILDING PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE TIES WITH AFRICA
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 193 pp.
Grade: H
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0- 86543-204-X
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0-86543-205-8

Subjects: Africa/Development/Volunteer workers

Information for activists interested in promoting stronger ties between the U.S. and Africa.

AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, BASIL
TITLE:
AFRICAN CIVILIZATION REVISITED: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 460 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0-86543-123-X
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-86543-124

Subjects: Africa/History

The history of Africa as told in the chronicles and records of rulers, travellers, merchant-adventurers, poets, priests, soldiers and persons of learning.

AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, BASIL
TITLE:
THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN: AFRICA AND THE CURSE OF THE NATION-STATE
Publisher: Times Books
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 352 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 0-8129-1998-X
Price (pap): $13.00
ISBN (pap): 0 8129 2210 7

Subjects: Africa/History

This work draws on Davidson's long experience in Africa and his knowledge of the Balkans. Davidson views the nation-state as the primary reason for Africa's woes (and those of the Balkans). He argues that Africa's redemption lies in decentralized political power, mass participation in decision-making, and rural development.

AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, BASIL
TITLE:
LOST CITIES OF AFRICA
Publisher: Little Brown
Copyright: 1959
Type: Book
Grade: YA

Price (pap): $10.95
ISBN (pap): 0 316 17431 9

Subjects: Africa/Urbanization/Cities and towns

Presents archaeological evidence and scholarly research that demonstrates the development of rich kingdoms in Africa fifteen hundred years before the coming of Europeans.

AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, BASIL
TITLE:
MODERN AFRICA
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1983
Type: Book
Collation: 234 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $11.95
ISBN (pap): 0-582-65525-0

Subjects: Africa/History/Religion/Nationalism

A succinct coverage of recent history with particular reference to African nationalism and independent African nations.

AUTHOR: DAVIS, STEPHEN
TITLE:
APARTHEID'S REBELS: INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA'S HIDDEN WAR
Publisher: Yale University Press
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 238 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $11.00
ISBN (pap): 0 300 03992 1

Subjects: Apartheid/South Africa/Southern Africa/African National Congress

Describes the recent history of the African National Congress.

AUTHOR: DECALO, SAMUEL
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF CHAD
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 570 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: R47.50
ISBN: 0-8108-19737-6

Subjects: Chad/History/North Africa

This revised edition includes a lengthy bibliography, biographical entries on major figures and historical information.

AUTHOR: DEVISSE, I. JEAN; COURTES, JEAN
TITLE:
THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOL 2 : FROM THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, PT. 1: FROM THE DEMONIC THREAT TO THE INCARNATION OF SAINTHOOD
Publisher: Harvard University Press / Menil Foundation
Copyright: 1979
Type: Book
Collation: 288 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 0 939594 02
Place Of Publication: Cambridge
Subjects: Art/Diaspora

AUTHOR: DEVISSE, JEAN; MOLLAT, MICHEL
TITLE:
THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOL 2 : FROM THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, PT. 2 AFRICANS IN THE CHRISTIAN ORDINANCE OF THE WORLD (FOURTEENTH TO THE
Publisher: Harvard University Press / Menil Foundation
Copyright: 1979
Type: Book
Collation: 336 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 0 939594 03 X
Place Of Publication: Cambridge
Subjects: Art/Diaspora

AUTHOR: DIOP, CHEIKH ANTA
TITLE:
THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION: MYTH OR REALITY
Publisher: Lawrence Hill
Copyright: 1974
Type: Book
Collation: 316 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $11.95
ISBN (pap): 1 55652 072 7

Subjects: Africa/History

Presents Diop's main thesis that historical, archeological and anthropological evidence supports the theory that societies in ancient Egypt were black in origin.

AUTHOR: DIOP, CHEIKH ANTA
TITLE:
CIVILIZATION OR BARBARISM
Publisher: Lawrence Hill
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 440 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $16.95
ISBN (pap): 1-55652-048-4

Subjects: Africa - Civilization/Egypt - Civilization/North Africa/Nile Valley

Diop's final contribution to the reconstruction of African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective. Here he broadens the project that he began in The African Origin of Civilization. Challenging orthodox scholarship, he argues that Egypt was a black not white civilization.

AUTHOR: DORO, MARIO; LEGUM, COLIN EDITORS
TITLE:
AFRICA CONTEMPORARY RECORD VOL. XXII: 1989-1990
Publisher: Holmes and Meier
Copyright: 1994
Type: Annual
Grade: YA
Price: $375.00
ISBN: 0 8419 0560 6

Subjects: Africa/History

This annual provides coverage of events in Africa for the current year. Also includes full texts of important documents.

AUTHOR: DRAKE, ST CLAIRE
TITLE:
BLACK FOLK HERE AND THERE, VOL. I
Publisher: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies

Type: Book
Collation: 387 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $43.50
ISBN: 0-934934-20-7
Price (pap): $23.95
ISBN (pap): 0-934934-21-5

Subjects: History/Africa/Racism/Nile Valley/Egypt/North Africa

A study of the black experience in ancient Nile Valley societies.

AUTHOR: DRAKE, ST CLAIRE
TITLE:
BLACK FOLK HERE AND THERE, VOL. II
Publisher: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies

Type: Book
Collation: 378 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $54.90
ISBN: 0-934934-20-7
Price (pap): $39.95
ISBN (pap): 0-934934-29-0

Subjects: History/Africa/Racism/Nile Valley/Egypt/North Africa

A study of the black experience in Judaic, Greek, and Roman cultures to European Christendom and the Muslim world.

AUTHOR: DREW, EILEEN
TITLE:
BLUE TAXIS: STORIES ABOUT AFRICA
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 155 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-915-94341-7

Subjects: Short Stories/West Africa/Zaire/Central Africa/Literature

Stories drawn from Drew's living experiences in West Africa and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire.

AUTHOR: DUBOIS, W. E. B.
TITLE:
THE WORLD AND AFRICA: AN INQUIRY INTO THE PART WHICH AFRICA HAS PLAYED IN WORLD HISTORY
Publisher: International Publishers
Copyright: 1965
Type: Book
Collation: 352 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.95
ISBN (pap): 0 7178 0221 3

Subjects: Africa/History

First published in 1946, this book examines the debate over Africa's role in world history. Flawed in places due to the knowledge base at that time, the book remains a valuable document because historical realities have substantiated most of DuBois' original claims.

AUTHOR: DUBOULAY, SHIRLEY
TITLE:
TUTU: VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
Publisher: Eerdmans
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Collation: 304 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 0-8028-3649-6

Subjects: South Africa/Desmond Tutu/Apartheid

This biography focuses on Tutu as a religious leader and a foe of apartheid.

AUTHOR: DUNN, D. ELWOOD; HOLSOE, SVEND
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF LIBERIA
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1985
Type: Book
Collation: 274 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.50
ISBN: 0-8108-1767-5

Subjects: Liberia/West Africa/Dictionaries/History/Biography

Consists of about 400 articles half of which are biographical.

AUTHOR: EDGAR, ROBERT
TITLE:
AFRICAN - AMERICAN IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE TRAVEL NOTES OF RALPH J. BUNCHE 28 SEPT
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0 8214 1021 0

Subjects: South Africa/African Americans

For 3 months in 1937 and 1938, Ralph Bunche traveled throughout South Africa recording his observations and impressions. This edited volume of his research notes provides a wealth of information on black life in South Africa.

AUTHOR: EMECHETA, BUCHI
TITLE:
BRIDE PRICE
Publisher: Braziller
Copyright: 1976
Type: Book
Collation: 168 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $6.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8076-0951-X

Subjects: Nigeria/Fiction/West Africa

This tragic novel of love and rebellion is set in Nigeria in the 1950s.

AUTHOR: EMECHETA, BUCHI
TITLE:
JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1979
Type: Book
Collation: 224 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90684-4

Subjects: Nigeria/Fiction/West Africa

A novel of a Nigerian woman's struggle to find fulfillment as a mother and a woman.

AUTHOR: EQUIANO, OLAUDAH; EDWARDS, PAUL (EDITOR)
TITLE:
THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Grade: YA

Subjects: Enslaved persons/West Africa/Nigeria/History/Slavery

An person account of enslavement by Olaudah Equiano, an Igbo who was captured when he eleven years old.

AUTHOR: EQUIANO, OLAUDAH; GATES, HENRY LOUIS (EDITOR)
TITLE:
CLASSIC SLAVE NARRATIVES : THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO
Publisher: Mentor / Penguin
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 518 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $5.99
ISBN (pap): 0-451-62726-1

Subjects: Nigeria/Igbo/African Americans/History/Slavery/Diaspora

In his autobiography, Equiano tells of his capture in West Africa and his life as a free man. The lives of three other enslaved persons are also found in this volume.

AUTHOR: FAGAN, BRIAN
TITLE:
JOURNEY FROM EDEN: THE PEOPLING OF OUR WORLD
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 256 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 0-500-05057-0

Subjects: Evolution

Examines the origins of humankind in Africa and dispersal of humans throughout the world.

TITLE: FAMILY ACROSS THE SEA
Publisher: South Carolina Educational TV
Type: Videotape
Grade: H
Price: $32.45

Subjects: Diaspora/African Americans/Sierra Leone/West Africa

A documentary on the reuniting of Gullah families from South Carolina with family members in Sierra Leone.

AUTHOR: FANON, FRANTZ
TITLE:
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
Publisher: Grove
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8021-5084-5

Subjects: Race relations

Analyzes the dual existence of blacks living in a white-ruled world.

AUTHOR: FANON, FRANTZ
TITLE:
THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
Publisher: Grove
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8021-5083-7

Subjects: Algeria/History/France - colonies/Colonialism

This classic analysis of colonialism draws on the author's experience as a psychiatrist in Algeria during the war of liberation from France. Fanon argued that armed conflict is a necessary component of true liberation.

AUTHOR: FENTON, THOMAS; HEFFRON MARY
TITLE:
AFRICA: A DIRECTORY OF RESOURCES
Publisher: Third World Resources
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 144 pp.
Grade: H
Price: $14.45

Subjects: Africa/ Handbooks/Bibliography

A concise guide to organizations and materials (books, periodicals, pamphlets, articles and audio-visuals) that focus on Africa.

AUTHOR: FINNEGAN, WILLIAM
TITLE:
CROSSING THE LINE: A YEAR IN THE LAND OF APARTHEID
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 418 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 0-06-015568-X
Price (pap): $10.95
ISBN (pap): 0-06-091430-0

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid/Southern Africa

Finnegan, an American journalist, wound up in South Africa following a world tour. This is an account of his year as a secondary school teacher in the Cape Flats a poverty-stricken area of Cape Town. Finnegan joined a school boycott, toured the country, and observed apartheid first-hand.

AUTHOR: FISCHER, ARNOLD
TITLE:
ENGLISH XHOSA DICTIONARY
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Copyright: 1985
Type: Book
Collation: 738 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $32.13
ISBN: 0 19 570290 5

Subjects: Language and languages/South Africa

Persons learning the Xhosa language from South Africa will find this dictionary a useful tool. Contains 15, 000 entries and many more derivations including technical and idiomatic expressions.

AUTHOR: FREDERIKSE, JULIE
TITLE:
UNBREAKABLE THREAD: NON-RACIALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 294 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0 253 32473 4
Price (pap): $15.95
ISBN (pap): 0 253 2016 7

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid

Interviews, photographs, cartoons, and newspaper clippings reveal the fight against apartheid.

AUTHOR: FREEMAN-GRENVILLE, G. S. P.
TITLE:
THE NEW ATLAS OF AFRICAN HISTORY
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 144 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 0-13-612151-9

Subjects: Africa/Atlases

AUTHOR: FUGARD, ATHOL
TITLE:
MASTER HAROLD ... AND THE BOYS
Publisher: Knopf
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 60 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $11.45
ISBN: 0-394-52874-3
Price (pap): $4.95
ISBN (pap): 0-14-048187-7

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid/Drama

When 17 year-old Hally demands that his father's employee call him master, he damages a treasured friendship. A poignant drama about race relations in South Africa.

AUTHOR: FYLE, C. MAGBAILY
TITLE:
THE HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 150 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-237-50508-8

Subjects: Sierre Leone/History/West Africa

A concise and readable survey of the history of Sierre Leone from early times to the present.

AUTHOR: GAILEY, HARRY
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE GAMBIA
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 176 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0-8108-2001-3

Subjects: Gambia/West Africa/Encyclopedia and dictionaries/History/ Biography

Contains information about historical and contemporary political events and key figures in Gambian politics.

AUTHOR: GARDINIER, DAVID
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF GABON
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 284 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 0 8108 1435 8

Subjects: Gabon/Biography/Central Africa

Covers past and recent history of Gabon in dictionary format.

AUTHOR: GARLAKE, PETER
TITLE:
KINGDOMS OF AFRICA
Publisher: Peter Bedrick
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 160 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0-87226-305-3
Price (pap): $16.95
ISBN (pap): 0-87226-230-8

Subjects: Africa/History

An illustrated record of Africa's past, based on archaeology and oral histories.

AUTHOR: GBADEGESIN, SEGUN
TITLE:
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: TRADITIONAL YORUBA PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN REALITIES
Publisher: Lang, Peter
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $27.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8204 1770 X

Subjects: Philosophy/Africa/Yoruba/Nigeria/West Africa

An accessible study of past and contemporary facets of African life and philosophy. Focuses primarily on Yoruba culture and philosophy but includes other thought systems.

AUTHOR: GERHART, GAIL
TITLE:
BLACK POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEOLOGY
Publisher: University of California Press
Copyright: 1978
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $15.95
ISBN (pap): 0 5200 3933 5

Subjects: History/South Africa/Apartheid

Traces the roots of black consciousness in South Africa.

AUTHOR: GILFOY, PEGGY
TITLE:
PATTERNS OF LIFE: WEST AFRICAN STRIP WEAVING TRADITIONS
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 95 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): o.p.

Subjects: Art/Weaving/Textile industry and fabrics/West Africa

An introduction to African textile history.

AUTHOR: GORDIMER, NADINE
TITLE:
CRIMES OF CONSCIENCE
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 121 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 435 90668 2

Subjects: Short Stories/South Africa/Apartheid/Southern Africa/Fiction

In this collection of eleven stories Gordimer explores various themes but the dominant one is the effect of aparthied on South Africans, black and white. Gordimer portrays them all as victims of apartheid. Particularly useful as dilemma tales.

AUTHOR: GROSS, SUSAN AND BINGHAM, MARJORIE
TITLE:
WOMEN IN AFRICA OF THE SUB-SAHARA, 2 VOLS.
Publisher: GEM
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 117 pp.
Grade: H
Price: $13.95
Price (pap): $9.95

Subjects: Women/History/Africa

This two volume set covers the history of African women, particularly those women south of the Sahara.

AUTHOR: HANSBERRY, WILLIAM LEO ; JOSEPH HARRIS (EDITOR)
TITLE:
AFRICA AND AFRICANS AS SEEN BY CLASSICAL WRITERS
Publisher: Howard University Press
Copyright: 1977
Type: Book
Collation: 162 pp.
Grade: YA
ISBN: 088258 089 2
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 88258 089 2

Subjects: Africa/History

A renowned historian examines Greco-Roman references to the African continent and its people.

AUTHOR: HANSBERRY, WILLIAM LEO ; JOSEPH HARRIS (EDITOR)
TITLE:
PILLARS IN ETHIOPIAN HISTORY
Publisher: Howard University Press
Copyright: 1977
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): 49.95
ISBN (pap): 0 88 258 090 6

Subjects: Ethiopia/History/East Africa

Examines ancient and medieval Ethiopian history with special attention to the legend of the Queen of Sheba, the development of Christianity, the legend of Prester John, and Ethiopia's international relations.

AUTHOR: HARRIS, JOSEPH
TITLE:
AFRICANS AND THEIR HISTORY
Publisher: New American Library/Mentor Books
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 302 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $4.99
ISBN (pap): 0-451-62556-0

Subjects: Africa/History

This concise and readable overview of African history chronicles Africa's development from early times and its relationship to the world.

AUTHOR: HARRIS, JOSEPH EDITOR
TITLE:
GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Publisher: Howard University Press
Copyright: 1993
Type: Book
Collation: 532 pp.
Grade: YA
ISBN: 0-88258-149-X

Subjects: Africa/History/Diaspora/African Americans

This updated edition of a 1982 title includes essays from the First and Second African Diaspora Institutes. The essays examine the history and experiences of people of African descent in various parts of the world.

AUTHOR: HAWK, BEVERLY EDITOR
TITLE:
AFRICA'S MEDIA IMAGE
Publisher: Praeger / Greenwood
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 268 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 0-275-93796-8

Subjects: Africa in mass media - United States

Explores the image of Africa in the United States.

AUTHOR: HEAD, BESSIE
TITLE:
THE COLLECTOR OF TREASURES
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1977
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 435 90182 6

Subjects: South Africa/Fiction/Botswana/Southern Africa

This book of short stories explores numerous themes including male-female relationships, family, colonialism, and the African past.

AUTHOR: HEAD, BESSIE
TITLE:
WHEN RAINCLOUDS GATHER
Publisher: Heinnemann
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 188 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 4359 0726 3

Subjects: Fiction/Botswana/South Africa/Southern Africa

An idealistic black nationalist from South Africa tries to bring about change in his adopted country, Botswana.

AUTHOR: HERSKOVITS, MELVILLE
TITLE:
MYTH OF THE NEGRO PAST
Publisher: Beacon Press
Copyright: 1958
Type: Book
Collation: 368 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8070-0905-9

Subjects: African Americans/History/Africanisms/Diaspora

Explores the African heritage of African Americans.

AUTHOR: HOLLOWAY, JOSEPH EDITOR
TITLE:
AFRICANISMS IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 249 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 0-253-32839-X
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 253 20686 3

Subjects: African Americans/Diaspora/History

Contains 9 articles on aspects of African culture that can be identified in religion, language, art, music, etiquette and "folkways" in America.

AUTHOR: HONOUR, HUGH
TITLE:
THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOL. 4 : FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR
Publisher: Harvard University Press /Menil Foundation
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 379 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $50.00

Place Of Publication: Cambridge
Subjects: Africa/Art

AUTHOR: HUDSON, MARK
TITLE:
OUR GRANDMOTHERS' DRUMS
Publisher: Henry Holt
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 321 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $13.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8050 1620

Subjects: West Africa - Social life and customs

The experiences of a Westerner in West Africa.

AUTHOR: INIKORI, J. E. EDITOR
TITLE:
FORCED MIGRATION
Publisher: Africana / Holmes and Meier
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 349 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: o.p.

Subjects: Diaspora/History/African Americans

The 10 essays in this volume examine the impact of the European slave trade on African peoples and institutions. Includes a chapter on the numbers of persons enslaved and transported to the Americas.

AUTHOR: JACKSON, JOHN G.
TITLE:
INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
Publisher: Citadel
Copyright: 1970
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8065-0420-X

Subjects: Africa/History

This volume was one of the first really good introductions to African history from an African perspective.

AUTHOR: JACOBS, SYLVIA
TITLE:
AFRICAN NEXUS: BLACK AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE EUROPEAN PARTITIONING OF AFRICA,
Publisher: Greenwood
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 311 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 0-313-22312-2

Subjects: African Americans/History/Colonialism

A carefully documented study of the vigorous black American response to European imperialism in Africa.

AUTHOR: JACOBS, SYLVIA
TITLE:
BLACK AMERICANS AND MISSIONARY MOVEMENT IN AFRICA
Publisher: Greenwood
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 255 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 0-313-23280-6

Subjects: African Americans/History/Diaspora/Missionaries/Religion

This edited volume reviews the history of African American involvement in Christian missionary activities in Africa. Contributors describe African Americans as generally ambivalent missionaries who accepted their African heritage but promoted Western values.

AUTHOR: JAMES, GEORGE
TITLE:
STOLEN LEGACY: GREEK PHILOSOPHY IS STOLEN EGYPTIAN PHILOSOPHY
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1954
Type: Book
Collation: 190 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0 86543 361 5
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 86543 362 3

Subjects: Egypt/Philosophy/History/North Africa

Presents evidence to support the theory that Egyptians were the true authors of "Greek philosophy."

AUTHOR: JOCHANNAN, YOSEF BEN
TITLE:
AFRICAN ORIGIN OF MAJOR WESTERN RELIGIONS
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 356 pp.
Grade: YA

Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0 9331 2129 6

Subjects: Religion/Africa

This work describes the importance of Africa in the birth of the world major religions.

AUTHOR: JOHNS, SHERIDAN; DAVIS, R. HUNT
TITLE:
MANDELA, TAMBO, AND THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 353 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $35.00 cloth

Price (pap): $13.95
ISBN (pap): 0 19 505784 8

Subjects: South Africa/African National Congress/Nelson Mandela/Oliver Tambo/Apartheid

A collection of press statements, interviews and speeches by Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, as well as ANC documents.

AUTHOR: KATJAVIVI, PETER
TITLE:
THE HISTORY OF RESISTANCE IN NAMIBIA
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book

Grade: YA
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0 86543 143 4
Price (pap): $11.95
ISBN (pap): 0 86543 144 2

Subjects: Namibia/Southern Africa/SWAPO/National liberation movements

Part of UNESCO's 'Apartheid and Society' series, this book introduces general readers to Namibia. Special attention is devoted to the various forms of resistance Namibians have mounted against European intrusion and colonization.

AUTHOR: KELLER, EDMOND
TITLE:
REVOLUTIONARY ETHIOPIA: FROM EMPIRE TO PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 320 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0-253-35014-X

Subjects: Ethiopia/History/East Africa

A useful introduction to the history of Ethiopia from its evolution as a bureaucratic state in the 19th century to the socialist revolution of modern times.

AUTHOR: KENNEDY, JEAN
TITLE:
NEW CURRENTS, ANCIENT RIVERS : CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTISTS IN A GENERATION OF CHANGE
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 208 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 1 56098 037 0
Place Of Publication: Washington
Subjects: Art, Modern/Africa

AUTHOR: KIRCHHERR, EUGENE
TITLE:
PLACE NAMES OF AFRICA, 1935-86: A POLITICAL GAZETTEER
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 136 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 0 8108 2061 7

Subjects: Names/Africa

A guide to past and present place names in Africa.

AUTHOR: KUZWAYO, ELLEN
TITLE:
CALL ME WOMAN
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Copyright: 1985
Type: Book
Collation: 266 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.50
ISBN (pap): 1 879960 09 5

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Apartheid/Ellen Kuzwayo

Kuzwayo's autobiography describes her many roles (daughter, teacher, wife, mother, social worker, and activist) and the impact color and gender have had on her life experiences.

AUTHOR: KWAMENA - POH, MICHAEL ET AL
TITLE:
AFRICAN HISTORY IN MAPS
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 76 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $13.95
ISBN (pap): 0-582-60331-5

Subjects: Maps/Africa/History

A collection of 36 full page reproducible historical African maps which cover all major historical periods for all of Africa for the past 2,000 years.

AUTHOR: LA GUMA, ALEX
TITLE:
A WALK IN THE NIGHT
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Copyright: 1967
Type: Book

Grade: YA
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 0-8101-0399-0
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0-8101-01394

Subjects: South Africa/Fiction

This novel explores the affects of apartheid on the people of South Africa.

AUTHOR: LAWSON, THOMAS
TITLE:
RELIGIONS OF AFRICA
Publisher: Harper
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 106 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.95
ISBN (pap): 0-06-065211-X

Subjects: Religion/Nigeria /South Africa/Yoruba/Zulu/West Africa Southern Africa

An introdution to the religious traditions of Africa with particular attention to the beliefs of the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Zulu of South Africa.

AUTHOR: LAYE, CAMARA
TITLE:
DARK CHILD (ALSO KNOWN AS AFRICAN CHILD)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright: 1954
Type: Book
Collation: 199 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8090 1548 X
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: Guinea/Biography/West Africa

In this novel, the Guinean writer Camara Laye portrays his African childhood as a world of wonder.

AUTHOR: LELYVELD, JOSEPH
TITLE:
MOVE YOUR SHADOW: SOUTH AFRICA, BLACK AND WHITE
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 390 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 14 009326 5

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid

Lelyveld, a New York Times reporter, had two tours of duty in South Africa. His observations and experiences are recorded in this work.

AUTHOR: MAGAIA, LINA
TITLE:
DUMBA NENGUE: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE PEASANT TALES OF TRAGEDY IN MOZAMBIQUE
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $6.95
ISBN (pap): 0 86543 074 8

Subjects: Mozambique/War/Southern Africa

Written by a Mozambican, this is a vivid description of the devastation war waged by RENAMO against the people of Mozambique.

AUTHOR: MAGUBANE, BERNARD MAKHOSEZWE
TITLE:
THE TIES THAT BIND: AFRICAN AMERICAN CONSCIOUSNESS OF AFRICA
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0-865543-036-5
Price (pap): $10.95
ISBN (pap): 0-86543-037-3

Subjects: History/Diaspora/African Americans

This study explores the historical significance of the relationship of black Americans to Africa.

AUTHOR: MAGUBANE, PETER; LAZAR, CAROL
TITLE:
WOMEN OF SOUTH AFRICA: THEIR FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Publisher: Little Brown / Bulfinch
Copyright: 1993
Collation: 134 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8212 1934 0

Subjects: South Africa/Women/Apartheid

This vivid photo essay focuses on the role of women in the fight against apartheid. Women of all major racial and economic groups are featured.

AUTHOR: MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB
TITLE:
PALACE WALK
Publisher: Doubleday
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 0 385 26465 8
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 385 26466 6

Subjects: Egypt/Fiction/North Africa

AUTHOR: MAJA-PEARCE, ADEWALE
TITLE:
THE HEINEMANN BOOK OF AFRICAN POETRY IN ENGLISH
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 435 91323 9

Subjects: Africa/Poetry

A collection of African poetry written in English over the last thirty years.

AUTHOR: MAKEBA, MIRIAM WITH HALL, JAMES
TITLE:
MAKEBA, MY STORY
Publisher: New American Library
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 249 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $10.95
ISBN (pap): 0 452 26234 8

Subjects: Miriam Makeba/South Africa/Biography

The well-known South African singer tells of the triumphs and tribulations she has experienced in her life.

AUTHOR: MANDELA, NELSON
TITLE:
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Publisher: Little, Brown
Copyright: 1994
Type: Book
Collation: 558 pp.
Grade: YA
ISBN: 0 31654 58 56
Place Of Publication: Boston
Subjects: Biography/Nelson Mandela/South Africa

The long-awaited autobiography by South Africa's most well-known anti-apartheid foe.

AUTHOR: MANDELA, NELSON
TITLE:
THE STRUGGLE IS MY LIFE
Publisher: Pathfinder
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 249 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $6.95

Subjects: Nelson Mandela/South Africa/Biography

A collection of Mandela's speeches, documents authored by Mandela and memoirs written by his fellow prisoners.

AUTHOR: MARE, GERHARD; HAMILTON, GEORGINA
TITLE:
AN APPETITE FOR POWER: BUTHELEZI'S INKATHA AND SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 8 0 253 30812 7

Subjects: Gatsha Buthelezi/Biography/South Africa/Apartheid

A biography of one of South Africa's most controversial figures.

AUTHOR: MARTIN, PHYLLIS M.; O'MEARA, PATRICK
TITLE:
AFRICA
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 2nd edition, 456 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0-253-30211-0
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-253-20392-9

Subjects: Africa/History/Politics

An interdisciplinary text that includes essays on "The African Past", "Society and Culture" and "Economics and Politics".

AUTHOR: MASHININI, RUTH
TITLE:
STRIKES HAVE FOLLOWED ME ALL MY LIFE: A SOUTH AFRICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Publisher: Routledge
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 142 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0 415 90414 5
Price (pap): $13.95
ISBN (pap): 0 415 90414 53

Subjects: Apartheid/South Africa/Trade unions/Biographies/Women

In 1975, Mashinini started a black shop-worker's union in South Africa. Her efforts to empower black workers led to her imprisonment in 1981. In this autobiography, she tells about her life and her struggle against apartheid.

AUTHOR: MAYLAM, PAUL
TITLE:
HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA: FROM THE IRON AGE TO THE 1970S
Publisher: St. Martin's / Macmillan
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 259 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 0 312 37511 5

Subjects: South Africa/History

A history of South Africa with primary emphasis on the indigenous African population.

AUTHOR: MAZRUI, ALI
TITLE:
THE AFRICANS: A TRIPLE HERITAGE
Publisher: Intellimation
Type: Videotape
Collation: 9 part series 60 min. ea.
Grade: H
Price: $250.00

Subjects: Africa/History

The television series on contemporary Africa.

AUTHOR: MAZRUI, ALI
TITLE:
THE AFRICANS: A TRIPLE HERITAGE
Publisher: Little, Brown
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 336 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.95
Price (pap): $17.95

Subjects: Africa/History

A well-known Kenyan scholar, illustrates how Africa's past and present have been shaped by three major influences: indigenous traditions, Islamic culture, and Western culture.

AUTHOR: MAZURI, ALI; LEVINE, TOBY EDITOR
TITLE:
THE AFRICANS: A READER
Publisher: Praeger
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 348 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 0-275-92066-6
Price (pap): $19.95
ISBN (pap): 0-275-92073-9

Subjects: Africa/History

This is an interdisciplinary companion volume to the PBS television series The Africans.

AUTHOR: MDA, ZAKES
TITLE:
THE PLAYS OF ZAKES MDA
Publisher: Raven Press / Ohio University Press (dist.)
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 156 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0-86975-389-4

Subjects: South Africa/Drama

This collection of plays reveals the devastating impact of apartheid on ordinary people.

AUTHOR: MEER, FATIMA
TITLE:
HIGHER THAN HOPE : THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF NELSON MANDELA
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright: 1991
Collation: 456 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $10.95
ISBN (pap): 0 06 092066 1

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Nelson Mandela

A revealing and poltically astute biography of Meer's longtime friend, Nelson Mandela.

AUTHOR: MERMELSTEIN, DAVID
TITLE:
THE ANTI-APARTHEID READER : SOUTH AFRICA AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST WHITE RACIST RULE
Publisher: Grove Press
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 544 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $15.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8021 5101 9
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid

TITLE: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 1991
Publisher: Europa Publications / Gale
Copyright: 1991
Type: Annual
Grade: YA
Price: $245.00
ISBN: 09-946653-60-7

Subjects: North Africa/ History

Provides an analysis of events in North Africa and Middle East.

AUTHOR: MILNE, JUNE EDITOR
TITLE:
KWAME NKRUMAH: THE CONAKRY YEARS: HIS LIFE AND LETTERS
Publisher: Zed Books
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 422 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $60.00 cloth
ISBN: 0 901787 53 1
Price (pap): $25.00
ISBN (pap): 0 901787 54 X

Subjects: Ghana/Kwame Nkrumah/Biography/West Africa

This biography uses primary source material to provide insight into this well-known leader.

AUTHOR: MODISANE, BLOKE
TITLE:
BLAME ME ON HISTORY
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 311 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0-671-70794-9
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-671-70067-7

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Bloke Mosidane

Modisane was a brillant journalist, playwright, and actor. In this riveting account of his life, he reveals what it means to be black in apartheid South Africa. The focal point of his autobiography is the destruction of Sophiatown, a vibrant, multicultural community that was razed to make way for a white town.

AUTHOR: MOORE, GERALD; BEIER, ULLI
TITLE:
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN AFRICAN POETRY
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 315 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-14-058573-7

Subjects: Poetry/Africa

This anthology includes over two hundred poems chosen from sixty-seven poets and twenty-three countries.

AUTHOR: MORTON, FRED ET AL
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF BOTSWANA
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 244 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.50
ISBN: 0-8108-2224-5

Subjects: Botswana/History/Southern Africa

A history of Botswana in dictionary form from early history to modern times.

AUTHOR: MPHAHLELE, ES'KIA OR EZEKIEL
TITLE:
DOWN SECOND AVENUE
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Copyright: 1959
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 571 09716 2

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Es'kia Mphahlele/Apartheid/Ezekiel Mphahlele

In his autobiography, Mphahlele describes his childhood and search for identify in oppressive South Africa

AUTHOR: MUNDT, ROBERT
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF IVORY COAST
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Collation: 246 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.50
ISBN: 0-8108-2029-3

Subjects: Ivory Coast/West Africa/Dictionaries/History/Biography

Contains information about contemporary politicians, governmental bodies, agriculture, ethnic groups and places.

AUTHOR: MURPHY, E. JEFFERSON
TITLE:
HISTORY OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION
Publisher: Dell
Copyright: 1974
Type: Book
Collation: 430 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $4.95
ISBN (pap): 0385-2841-5-2

Subjects: Africa/History

An introductory text on African history.

AUTHOR: MURRAY, JOCELYN
TITLE:
THE CULTURAL ATLAS OF AFRICA
Publisher: Facts on File
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 240 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $440.00
ISBN: 0-87196-558-5

Subjects: Africa/History/Geography

The atlas covers geography, culture, regions and nation states. It includes 96 maps, 248 color illustrations.

AUTHOR: NGUGI WA THIONG'O
TITLE:
A GRAIN OF WHEAT
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1968
Type: Book
Collation: 280 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.00
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90036-7

Subjects: Kenya/Fiction/East Africa

This novel explores tensions and loyalties in colonial Kenya.

AUTHOR: NGUGI WA THIONG'O
TITLE:
PETALS OF BLOOD
Publisher: Penguin / Viking
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 1401 5351 9

Subjects: Fiction/Kenya/Politics and government/East Africa

This suspenseful tale opens with the discovery of a triple murder. An investigation reveals a devastating picture of a corrupt neo-colonial government.

AUTHOR: NGUGI WA THIONG'O
TITLE:
WEEP NOT CHILD
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1964
Type: Book
Grade: YA

Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 4359 0830 8

Subjects: Fiction/Kenya/Politics and government/East Africa

Set during the so-called Mau Mau rebellion, this novel portrays the resistance of the Kikuyu people to the British seizure and appropriation of their land.

AUTHOR: NIANE, D. T.
TITLE:
SUNDIATA: AN EPIC OF OLD MALI
Publisher: Dearborn Trade
Copyright: 1960
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-582-64259-0

Subjects: Mali/Fiction/West Africa/Songhai

A griot's account of Sundiata and the origins of the Malian empire of Songhai.

AUTHOR: NKOSI, LEWIS
TITLE:
MATING BIRDS
Publisher: Fontana St. Martin's / Macmillan
Copyright: 1986
Type: Book
Collation: 184 pp.
Grade: YA
ISBN: 0 312 52295 9
ISBN (pap): 000 654 187 9

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid/Fiction

A sexually and racially-charged novel about the "rape" of a white woman by a black South African man. Similar in ways to Richard Wright's Native Son.

AUTHOR: NKRUMAH, KWAME
TITLE:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Publisher: Humanities
Copyright: 1973
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0 901787 34 5

Subjects: Kwame Nkrumah/Biography/Ghana/West Africa

Written while prime minister of Ghana, this autobiography describes Nkrumah's early life and his rise to power in Ghana. The book provides a window into Nkrumah's early political thought. It reveals an idealistic revolutionary who believed non-violent strategies could free Africa from European domination.

TITLE: NO EASY WALK
Publisher: Cinema Guild (dist.)

Type: Video cassette
Collation: 3 videos, 60 min., $90.00 each
Grade: H
Price: $395.00

Subjects: History/Colonialism/ Kenya /Zimbabwe/Ethiopia/East Africa/Southern Africa

Includes three videocassette documentaries of the history of colonialism and the independence movements in Kenya and Zimbabwe and the shorter colonial period and resistance movement in Ethiopia. Includes substantial footage of the two periods and interviews with European and African participants.

AUTHOR: NTANTALA, PHYLLIS
TITLE:
A LIFE'S MOSAIC: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHYLLIS NTANTALA
Publisher: University of California Press
Copyright: 1992
Collation: 237 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $13.00
ISBN (pap): 0 520 08172 2

Subjects: South Africa/Phyllis Ntantala/Biography

A member of the landed Xhosa gentry of Transkei, South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in comfortable surroundings. Her autobiography describes her childhood, her marriage to A.C. Jordan and her opposition to apartheid.

AUTHOR: OBRADOVIC, NADEZDA EDITOR
TITLE:
LOOKING FOR A RAIN GOD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN SHORT STORIES
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 284 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 0-671-70179-7
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-671-67177-4

Subjects: Africa/Short Stories/Literature

A collection of twenty-six short stories.

AUTHOR: OLANIYAN, RICHARD
TITLE:
AFRICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 259 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $23.95
ISBN (pap): 0-582-64369-4

Subjects: Africa/History/Culture

This impressive multidisciplinary study includes articles on art, language, religion, politics, social organization, and history.

AUTHOR: OLIVER, ROLAND; ATMORE, ANTHONY
TITLE:
THE AFRICAN MIDDLE AGES, 1400 - 1800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 216 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0-521-29894-6

Subjects: Africa/History

An introductory text for the student of African history. Primary themes include state formation and trade. Provides chapters on Islam, the various regions in Africa, and the slave trade.

AUTHOR: OLIVER, ROLAND; CROWDER, MICHAEL
TITLE:
CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICA
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $49.50
ISBN: 0521-23096-9

Subjects: Africa/History

AUTHOR: OLIVER, ROLAND; FAGE, J. D.
TITLE:
A SHORT HISTORY OF AFRICA
Publisher: Facts on File
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Collation: 303 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0-8160-2089-2

Subjects: Africa/History

Revised version of an earlier edition. Covers African history from early times through the years of independence.

AUTHOR: OMER COOPER, J. D.
TITLE:
HISTORY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 297 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $22.50
ISBN (pap): 0 435 08010 5

Subjects: History/Southern Africa

This general history of Southern Africa covers experiences of both black and white people in South Africa.

AUTHOR: O'TOOLE, THOMAS
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF GUINEA
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 2nd ed. 270 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 0-8108-2120-6

Subjects: Guinea/West Africa/Dictionaries/History/Biography

Contains information about individuals, groups, places, organizations, institutions, and ideas.

AUTHOR: OUSMANE, SEMBENE
TITLE:
GOD'S BITS OF WOOD
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1970
Type: Book
Collation: 245 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.50
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90892-8

Subjects: Senegal/Fiction/West Africa

A fictionalized account of the strike along the Dakar-Niger railway in the 1940s.

AUTHOR: OYEWOLE, A.
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF NIGERIA
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 1987
Grade: YA
Price: $42.50
ISBN: 0-8108-1787-X

Subjects: Nigeria/West Africa/Encyclopedias and dictionaries/History/Biography

Contains information about contemporary politicians, governmental bodies, agriculture, and places.

AUTHOR: OYONO, FERDINAND
TITLE:
HOUSEBOY
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1966
Type: Book
Collation: 122 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.00
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90029-3

Subjects: Cameroon/Fiction/West Africa

A satire on the brutality of French colonialism in Cameroon.

AUTHOR: PAMPALLIS, JOHN
TITLE:
FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: Zed / Humanities (dist.)
Copyright: 1991
Type: Textbook
Collation: 327 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $49.95 (cloth)
ISBN: 1-85649-004-1
Price (pap): $15.00
ISBN (pap): 1-85649-005-X

Subjects: South Africa/History

This history textbook covers the period between the 19th century and 1990. Considerable attention is given to black working class and political movements in South Africa (particularly the ANC).

AUTHOR: PARSONS, NEIL
TITLE:
A NEW HISTORY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Publisher: Holmes and Meier
Copyright: 1993
Type: Book
Collation: 360 pp.
Grade: H
Price: $34.50
Price (pap): $19.50
ISBN (pap): 0-8419-0876-1

Subjects: South Africa/History

This revised edition of a widely acclaimed textbook covers southern African history from the Later Stone Age through the 1990s. Written originally for students in Southern Africa, it provides an Africa-centered history of the region.

AUTHOR: P'BITEK, OKOT
TITLE:
SONG OF LAWINO AND SONG OF OCOL
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 151 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.00
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90266-0

Subjects: Uganda/Poetry/East Africa

In these extended Acoli songs, p'Bitek brillantly reveals the impact of colonialism on an Ugandan couple and their people.

AUTHOR: PERKINS, KENNETH J.
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF TUNISIA
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 234 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $28.05
ISBN: 0 8108 2226 1

Subjects: Tunisia/History/North Africa

Covers the period from 814 B.C. to 1988. In addition to the dictionary, the volume includes a summary of important events, list of rulers, an overview of history and important issues.

AUTHOR: PEROLD, HELENE
TITLE:
WORKING WOMEN: A PORTRAIT OF SOUTH AFRICA'S BLACK WOMEN WORKERS
Publisher: Raven / Ohio Univ. Press (dist.)
Copyright: 1985
Type: Book
Collation: 144 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 86975 276 6

Subjects: South Africa/Women

Interviews, commentary and photographs reveal the socioeconomic conditions of black women in South Africa.

AUTHOR: PITYANA, BARNEY; RAMPHELE, MAMPHELA MPUMLWANA; WILSON, LINDY
TITLE:
THE BOUNDS OF POSSIBILITY : THE LEGACY OF STEVE BIKO AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
Publisher: Zed Books
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 264 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $15.00
ISBN (pap): 1 85649 048 3

Subjects: South Africa/Steve Biko/Black Consciousness/Politics

In this edited volume, colleagues and followers of the martyred Steve Biko analyze his life and political thought. The lengthy biographical chapter is an excellent source for personal details about Biko's life.

AUTHOR: PLAATJE, SOL
TITLE:
MHUDI: AN EPIC OF SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVE LIFE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Publisher: Heinemann (England)
Type: Book
Grade: YA
ISBN (pap): 0 435 90 201 6

Subjects: Fiction/South Africa/Tswana/Ndebele

Written in 1917, this novel retells a slice of South African history through African eyes. It describes the rising tide of warfare between African groups following European settlement.

AUTHOR: RIFAAT, ALIFA
TITLE:
DISTANT VIEW OF MINARET AND OTHER STORIES
Publisher: Heinmann
Copyright: 1985
Type: Book
Collation: 126 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-435-90912-6

Subjects: Women/Fiction/North Africa/Egypt

This book of short stories focuses on women in modern Egypt.

AUTHOR: RODNEY, WALTER
TITLE:
HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA
Publisher: Howard University Press
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 312 pp.
Grade: YA

Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-88258-096-5

Subjects: Africa/History/Colonialism

An inquiry into the interrelations of Europe and Africa from the fifteenth century to the end of the colonial period. Rodney examines African growth before the coming of the Europeans and argues that the European slave trade was the basic factor in African underdevelopment and technical stagnation.

AUTHOR: RODNEY, WALTER
TITLE:
WALTER RODNEY SPEAKS: THE MAKING OF AN AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL
Publisher: Africa World Press
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 122 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-86543-072-1

Subjects: Diaspora/Guyana/Walter Rodney/Biography/Tanzania/East Africa

This edited transcript of conversations with Rodney in 1975 reveals his early life in Guyana, his work in Tanzania, and his role as a political activist.

AUTHOR: RUSSELL, DIANA
TITLE:
LIVES OF COURAGE: WOMEN FOR A NEW SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: HarperCollins / Basic Books
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 393 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 465 04141 8

Subjects: Women/South Africa/Apartheid/Biography

Profiles twenty-four South African women who have been involved in the fight against apartheid. There is diversity in race and ethnicity, social class, age, occupation, and political affiliation.

AUTHOR: SALIH, TAYEB
TITLE:
WEDDING OF ZEIN AND OTHER STORIES
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1978
Type: Book
Collation: 120 pp.
Grade: YA

Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 4359 0047 1

Subjects: Fiction/Short stories/Sudan/East Africa

Includes three short stories, by a noted Sudanese writer. Originally written in Arabic, they portray village life in the predominantly Muslim region of the country.

AUTHOR: SAMKANGE, STANLAKE
TITLE:
ON TRIAL FOR MY COUNTRY
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1967
Type: Book
Collation: 160 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 04 35900331

Subjects: Zimbabwe/Fiction/Ndebele/Southern Africa

The conquest of the Ndebele kingdom by Europeans and the clash between Logengula, the Ndebele king, and Cecil Rhodes is the background for this fascinating historical novel. The book casts new light on the European empire-builders and the people whose lands they took.

AUTHOR: SAUNDERS, CHRISTOPHER
TITLE:
BLACK LEADERS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA HISTORY
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1979
Type: Book
Collation: 155 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $11.50
ISBN (pap): 0-435-94478-9

Subjects: Biography/Southern Africa/History

Nine short biographies of important 19th century figures.

AUTHOR: SCOTT, WILLIAM
TITLE:
SONS OF SHEBA'S RACE: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR, 1935-1941
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Copyright: 1993
Type: Book
Collation: 288 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $57.50
ISBN: 0 253 35126 X

Subjects: Diaspora/African Americans - Politics and government/Ethiopia/East Africa

Ethiopia has long been a source of inspiration for African Americans. In this detailed study, Scott describes the reactions of African Americans to the invasion of that country by Mussolini's Italy.

AUTHOR: SENGHOR, LEOPOLD TRANSLATED BY MELVIN DIXON
TITLE:
LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR : THE COLLECTED POETRY
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 0 8139 1275 X

Subjects: Poetry/Senegal/West Africa/Negritude

This volume, with poems in English and French, includes a broad range of Senghor's poetry from his first book of poems to his more recent work.

AUTHOR: SEREQUEBERHAN, TSENAY
TITLE:
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: THE ESSENTIAL READINGS
Publisher: Paragon House
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $13.95
ISBN (pap): 1 55778 309 8

Subjects: Philosophy/Africa

A valuable collection of essays by African philosophers. Provides readers with various perspectives about the nature and content of African philosophical thought.

AUTHOR: SHOSTAK, MARGERY
TITLE:
NISA : THE LIFE AND WORDS OF A !KUNG WOMAN
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 416 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.76
ISBN (pap): 0 394 711126 2

Subjects: San/Kung/Southern Africa

The words of a !Kung woman as captured by an American anthropologist. The !Kung are one of the few groups in the world still practicing a predominately hunting and gathering life. A profound and unforgettable story that provides a window into a different world while conveying the universality of human emotions.

AUTHOR: SKINNER, ELLIOTT
TITLE:
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND U.S. POLICY TOWARD AFRICA 1850-1924 : IN DEFENSE OF BLACK
Publisher: Howard University Press
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 555 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0 88258 142 2
Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0 88258 159 7

Subjects: African Americans/Foreign relations/Diaspora/United States

A comprehensive yet readable work on the roles African Americans have played in U.S. foreign policy toward Africa.

AUTHOR: SNOWDEN, FRANK
TITLE:
BEFORE COLOR PREJUDICE: THE ANCIENT VIEW OF BLACKS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright: 1983
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 674 06381 3

Subjects: History/Africa/Racism/Nile Valley/Egypt/North Africa

Traces the image of blacks as seen by whites from Egyptian to Roman times and explains the rationale for the attitude toward blacks during this period. Snowden argues that the ancient view of blacks was "highly favorable" and "markedly different from views that developed in more color-conscious societies."

AUTHOR: SOYINKA, WOLE
TITLE:
AKE: THE YEARS OF CHILDHOOD
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1981
Type: Book
Collation: 230 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.95
ISBN (pap): 0-679-72540-7

Subjects: Biography/Nigeria/Wole Soyinka

In this remarkable autobiography, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka describes his life from age three to age eleven.

AUTHOR: SOYINKA, WOLE
TITLE:
DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 77 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.00
ISBN (pap): 0 374 52210 3

Subjects: Drama/Nigeria/History/Colonialism/West Africa

Based on a real incident, this riveting play reveals the power of Yoruba culture and cautions against the hasty imposition of foreign values.

AUTHOR: SPENCER, WILLIAM
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF MOROCCO
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Copyright: 1980
Type: Book
Collation: 152 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0 8108 1361 0

Subjects: Morocco/History/North Africa

Contains primarily biographical articles of important Moroccans. Also includes history, politics and geography.

AUTHOR: SPINDEL, CAROL
TITLE:
IN THE SHADOW OF THE SACRED GROVE
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 318 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $8.95
ISBN (pap): 0 679 72214 9

Subjects: Ivory Coast/West Africa/Senufo

An American woman recounts her year in a Senufo village in northern Ivory Coast.

AUTHOR: STEWART, GARY
TITLE:
BREAKOUT : PROFILES IN AFRICAN RHYTHM
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 157 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0 226 77405 8
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 226 77406 6
Place Of Publication: Chicago

Subjects: Africa/Popular music/Biography

Working from exclusive interviews with artists from Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Zaire, the author explores the lives of those musicians who battle to propel soukous, highlife, afrobeat, and palm wine music onto international pop charts.

AUTHOR: SWEETMAN, DAVID
TITLE:
WOMEN LEADERS IN AFRICAN HISTORY
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 100 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $9.50
ISBN (pap): 0-435-94480-0

Subjects: Biography/Women/History/Africa

Portraits of twelve key figures in African history.

AUTHOR: TAMBO, OLIVER
TITLE:
PREPARING FOR POWER: OLIVER TAMBO SPEAKS
Publisher: Braziller
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Collation: 284 pp.
Grade: YA

Subjects: South Africa - Politics and government/Apartheid

A collection of speeches by the late African National Congress leader.

AUTHOR: TAYLOR, JANE; TAYLOR, LEAH
TITLE:
FIELDING'S AFRICAN SAFARIS
Publisher: Fielding Travel Books / William Morrow
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 608 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $17.95
ISBN (pap): 0 688 05072 7

Subjects: Africa - Description and travel

Provides background information and travel tips on safaris within 17 African countries.

AUTHOR: THOMPSON, ROBERT FARRIS
TITLE:
FLASH OF THE SPIRIT : AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN ART AND PHILOSOPHY
Publisher: Random House / Vintage Books
Copyright: 1982
Type: Book
Collation: 317 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.95
ISBN (pap): 0 394 7236 9 4
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: Art/Dispora/Yoruba/Kongo/Ejagham/Mande/Cross River

Shows how five African cultures - Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River - have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, relgion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the Americas.

AUTHOR: THOMPSON, VIRGINIA; ADLOFF, RICHARD
TITLE:
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Publisher: Scarecrow
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 263 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0-8108-1716-0

Subjects: Congo - Brazzaville/Central Africa/History

This dictionary includes 158 biographies of major Congolese and 47 general entries on economic, political and social issues.

AUTHOR: TUTU, DESMOND; WEBSTER, JOHN
TITLE:
CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS: THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: Eerdmans
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 176 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $11.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8028 0270 2

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid

A collection of sermons, speeches, articles, and press statements by the Nobel Prize Winner. Highlights Tutu's religious philosophy and the need for change in apartheid South Africa.

TITLE: UNESCO GENERAL HISTORY OF AFRICA, 8 VOL.
Publisher: University of California Press
Copyright: 1984...
Type: Book
Grade: YA

Subjects: Africa/History

A comprehensive history of Africa from early times to recent decades. Provides African perspectives of events and topics.

AUTHOR: VAILLANT, JANET
TITLE:
BLACK, FRENCH, AND AFRICAN: A LIFE OF LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 388 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 0 674 07623 0

Subjects: West Africa/Senegal/Leopold Senghor/Literature/Biography

A highly readable biography of the Senegalese poet and leader.

AUTHOR: VAN SERTIMA, IVAN EDITOR
TITLE:
AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EARLY AMERICA
Publisher: Transaction
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 250 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $12.50
ISBN (pap): 0 88738 715 2

Subjects: Diaspora/History

In this edited volume, contributors argue that Africans arrived in the Americas prior to Columbus.

AUTHOR: VAN SERTIMA, IVAN EDITOR
TITLE:
BLACK WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY
Publisher: Transaction
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Collation: 159 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $7.50
ISBN (pap): 0-87855-982-5

Subjects: Women/History/Africa/Ethiopia/Egypt/North Africa/East Africa

This reprint from the Journal of African Civilizations provides information on Ethiopian and Egyptian queens and goddesses, women in ancient art, and rulers and courtesans.

AUTHOR: VAN SERTIMA, IVAN EDITOR
TITLE:
BLACKS IN SCIENCE: ANCIENT AND MODERN
Publisher: Transaction
Copyright: 1983
Type: Book
Collation: 302 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $15.00
ISBN (pap): 0-87855-941-8

Subjects: Science/History/Africa/African Americans

A collection of essays which focus on African contributions to scientific and technological advances.

AUTHOR: VAN SERTIMA, IVAN EDITOR
TITLE:
GOLDEN AGE OF THE MOOR
Publisher: Transaction
Copyright: 1992
Type: Book
Collation: 462 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $20.00
ISBN (pap): 1 56000 581 5

Subjects: North Africa/Muslims - Europe/History/Blacks - Europe/Europe - Civilization - African influences

AUTHOR: VAN SERTIMA, IVAN
TITLE:
THEY CAME BEFORE COLUMBUS: THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN ANCIENT AMERICA
Publisher: Random House
Copyright: 1976
Type: Book
Collation: 288 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 0-394-40245-6

Subjects: Diaspora/History

In narrative form, Van Sertima presents evidence to support the theory that Africans journeyed to the Americas in ancient times.

AUTHOR: VERCOUTTER, JEAN
TITLE:
THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, VOL. 1 : FROM THE PHARAOHS
Publisher: Harvard University Press / Menil Foundation
Copyright: 1976
Type: Book
Collation: 352 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 0 939594 01 3
Place Of Publication: Cambridge
Subjects: Africa/Art

AUTHOR: VOGEL, SUSAN AND EBONG, IMA
TITLE:
AFRICA EXPLORES 20TH CENTURY AFRICAN ART
Publisher: Center for African Art
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 296 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 3 7913 1143 3
Price (pap): $39.00
ISBN (pap): 0 945802 09 9
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: Art, Modern/Africa

AUTHOR: WARDLAW, ALVIA ET AL
TITLE:
BLACK ART ANCESTRAL LEGACY ; THE AFRICAN IMPULSE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART
Publisher: Abrams/Dallas Museum of Art
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 305 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 0 8109 3104 4
Price (pap): $24.95
ISBN (pap): 0 685 30877 4
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: Art, Modern/Diaspora/African Americans

A catalogue of the exhibition of African American art from the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition explores the ancestral bonds between Africa and Africans in the disapora as reflected in art.

AUTHOR: WATTS, DAUD
TITLE:
BLACK PRESENCE IN THE LANDS OF THE BIBLE
Publisher: Afro Vision
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 28 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $6.95
ISBN (pap): 942843 05 3

Subjects: Egypt/North Africa/Middle East/Bible

Tells of the millions of black people in antiquity and how the Bible identifies them. Includes discussion on black Madonna black Jews, and black images of Jesus and Mary.

AUTHOR: WATTS, DAUD
TITLE:
GIFTS OF THE NILE VALLEY
Publisher: Afro Vision
Copyright: 1992
Type: Pamphlet
Collation: 22 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $4.95
ISBN (pap): 0 942843 03 7

Subjects: Egypt/North Africa/History/Kush/Nubia/Ethiopia/Nile Valley/East Africa

A treatment of the basic geographic and cultural factors about the world's oldest and most central civilization.

AUTHOR: WATTS, DAUD
TITLE:
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND HORSEMEN OF WEST AFRICA
Publisher: Afro Vision
Copyright: 1992
Type: Pamphlet
Collation: 24 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $4.95
ISBN (pap): 0 942843 01 0

Subjects: West Africa/History/Military/Transportation

An illustrated survey of the massive use of cavalry in West Africa 1850-1900.

AUTHOR: WATTS, DAUD
TITLE:
TIMBUKTU
Publisher: Afro Vision
Copyright: 1992
Type: Pamphlet
Collation: 22 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $4.95
ISBN (pap): 0 942843 02 9

Subjects: Timbuktu/West Africa/Mali

An overview of the history of this important West African city, focusing on geography, trade, and education.

AUTHOR: WATTS, DAUD
TITLE:
URBAN HERITAGE OF WEST AFRICA
Publisher: Afro Vision
Copyright: 1992
Type: Pamphlet
Collation: 22 pp.
Grade: H
Price (pap): $4.95
ISBN (pap): 0 942843 04 5

Subjects: West Africa/History/Urbanization/Economics/Cities & towns

A look at the over 300 cities and large towns of West Africa in the pre-colonial period, including the great walled cities.

AUTHOR: WELLS, JULIA
TITLE:
WE HAVE DONE WITH PLEADING : THE WOMEN'S 1913 ANTI-PASS CAMPAIGN
Publisher: Ravan Press Address:P.O. Box 31134, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2017, South Africa
Copyright: 1991
Type: Book
Collation: 43 pp.
Grade: H
ISBN (pap): 0 86975 415 7
Place Of Publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Subjects: South Africa/History/Women

AUTHOR: WILLIAMSON, SUE
TITLE:
RESISTANCE ART IN SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: St. Martin's/Macmillan
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 159 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0-312-04142-X

Subjects: South Africa/Art

A visual survey of protest art in South Africa.

AUTHOR: WILSON, FRANCES
TITLE:
SOUTH AFRICA: THE CORDONED HEART
Publisher: Norton
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $14.95
ISBN (pap): 0 393 30335 7

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid/Artistic photography

A collection of photographs exhibited at the 1984 Carnegie conference on poverty in South Africa.

AUTHOR: WILSON, FRANCIS; RAMPHELE, MAMPHELA
TITLE:
UPROOTING POVERTY: THE CHALLENGE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Publisher: Norton
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 0 393 02610 8

Subjects: South Africa/Apartheid

A readable and informative synthesis of papers from the 1984 Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. The authors, one black and one white are both South Africans.

AUTHOR: WOODS, DONALD
TITLE:
BIKO
Publisher: Henry Holt
Copyright: 1987
Type: Book
Collation: 448 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0-8050-0655-9
Price (pap): $10.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8050 1899 9

Subjects: South Africa/Biography/Steve Biko

Chronicles the friendship between journalist Donald Woods and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Biko's brutal murder galvanized Woods into action against apartheid. The movie Cry Freedom depicts Wood's story.

AUTHOR: WRIGHT, RICHARD
TITLE:
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY: AN INTRODUCTION
Publisher: University Press of America
Copyright: 1984
Type: Book
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $24.00
ISBN (pap): 0 8191 3785 5

Subjects: Philosophy/Africa

An excellent introduction to the various viewpoints regarding the nature and content of African philosophical thought. Includes essays on the concept of personhood, African and Western philosophy, ancient African philosophy.

AUTHOR: YOUNG, LOUIS EDITOR
TITLE:
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTISTS : CHANGING TRADITIONS
Publisher: Studio Museum in Harlem
Copyright: 1990
Type: Book
Collation: 148 pp.
Grade: YA

Price (pap): $25.00
ISBN (pap): 0 942949 03 X
Place Of Publication: New York
Subjects: Art/Africa

AUTHOR: YOUNGE, GAVIN
TITLE:
ART OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIPS
Publisher: Rizzoli
Copyright: 1988
Type: Book
Collation: 96 pp.
Grade: YA
Price (pap): $17.95
ISBN (pap): 0 8478 0973 0

Subjects: South Africa/Art

A collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture from the townships of South Africa.

AUTHOR: ZELL, HANS
TITLE:
AFRICAN STUDIES COMPANION: A RESOURCE GUIDE AND DIRECTORY
Publisher: Hans Zell Publishers
Copyright: 1989
Type: Book
Collation: 165 pp.
Grade: H
Price: $47.50
ISBN: 0 905450 80 9

Subjects: Bibliography/Handbook

Includes information on encyclopedias, teaching aids, children's material, films and videos, publishers of materials on Africa as well as international organizations that focus on Africa.

AUTHOR: ZELL, HANS EDITOR ET AL
TITLE:
NEW READER'S GUIDE TO AFRICAN LITERATURE
Publisher: Holmes and Meier
Copyright: 1983
Type: Book
Collation: 553 pp.
Grade: YA
Price: $44.50
ISBN: 0-8419-0639-4
Price (pap): $29.50
ISBN (pap): 0-8419-0640-8

Subjects: Bibliography/Book reviews

This essential guide to African literature provides bibliographic information, annotations and brief biographies of writers.


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