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AFRICA ACCESS REVIEW

This electronic guide to children's materials on Africa is provided by Africa Access, a bibliographic and review service that specializes in the analysis of children's materials on Africa. The reviews in this guide were written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies. The guide is a collective response to the critical need for authoritative reviews of children's Africana. Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that U.S. libraries that serve children contain primarily biased and stereotypical materials on Africa. We hope educators will use the information provided in Africa Access Review to build truly quality collections on Africa. Africa Access is a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. Please direct your comments about this guide or your requests for assistance to:

Brenda Randolph, editor Africa Access Review brendar@umd5.umd.edu 301-587-5686

List of Reviewers

Loretta Kreider Andrews, M.A., M.L.S., reference librarian and education specialist, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland.

Joe Attah, Ph.D., free lance ethnomusicologist and music educator, Washington, D.C.

Barbara Brown, Ph.D., director of outreach, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Robert Browne, M.A., senior research fellow, Department of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Beverlee Bruce, Ph.D., scholar-in-residence, Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture, New York, New York.

Mbye Cham, Ph.D., associate professor of African literature, African Studies Department, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Sheilah Clarke-Ekong, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri.

Richard Corby, Ph.D., associate professor of history, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas.

Louise Crane, M.A., former director of outreach, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.

Marylee Crofts, Ph.D., associate director of the International Program, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Robert Cummings, Ph.D., professor of African economic history and department chair, Department of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Robert Edgar, Ph.D., associate professor of southern African history, Department of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Maureen Eke, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

Ekpo Eyo, Ph.D., professor of art history, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Eren Giray, Ph.D., former outreach coordinator, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.

Michael Gomez, Ph.D., associate professor of history, Department of History, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia.

Mamadou Gueye, C.S., M.A., teacher of French, Sidwell Friends Upper School, Washington, D.C.

Robert Hamilton, Ph.D., director of Classroom Africa, Portland Oregon.

Simphiwe A. Hlatshwayo, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Education at State University of New York, Oneonta, New York.

Shamil Jeppie doctoral student, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of History at Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Andree-Anne Kakeh, professor of African American Studies, University of Paris, Paris, France.

Bheki Langa, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of English, Howard University, Washington D.C.

Bernard Magubane, Ph.D., professor of anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.

Lesego Malepe, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts

John Metzler, Ph.D., assistant professor of African Studies and coordinator of outreach, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Lyn Miller-Lachman, M.L.S. editor, Multicultural Review

Razia Nanji, M.A., M.L.S. assistant university librarian, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Sulayman Nyang, Ph.D., professor of political science, African Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Kwaku Ofori-Ansah, Ph.D., associate professor of African art history, Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Akinwumi Ogundiran, M.S. graduate fellow, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, MA

Nenzi Plaatjies, M.A. storyteller and doctoral student, Department of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Eunice Posnansky, B.A., high school teacher, Encino, California.

Brenda Randolph, M.A., M.L.S., director of Africa Access and librarian, Montgomery County Public Schools, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Ann Macy Roth, assistant professor of Classics, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Nancy Schmidt, Ph.D, Africana librarian, Indiana University Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Bereket Habte Selassie, Ph.D., professor of International law, Department of African Studies, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Scott Siverson, B. A. graduate student, African Studies, University of Florida and a law student, Pace University, White Plains, New York.

Carol Spindel, M.A., teaching associate in English University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois and author of In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove (Vintage, 1989).

Jo Sullivan, Ph.D., historian and principal, Federal Street School, Salem, Massachusetts.

Sara Talis, Ed.D., former director of mission education, Society of African Missions, and lecturer in African American and African Studies, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Kitty Thuermer, B.A., director of information for Population Service International, Washington D.C. and author of the Africa unit in the Glenco publication Global Insights (Merrill, 1988).

Theresa Ware, Ph.D., foreign service officer, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.

Elvira Williams, M.S., M.B.A., executive director of AHEAD, Inc. a non-profit health organization with offices in Tanzania and Rockville, Maryland.