Africa

[Africa in General] [Botswana] [Cameroon] [Ghana] [Kenya]
[Madagascar] [Senegal] [South Africa] [Tanzania]

 

 

 

AFRICA IN GENERAL

Blixen, Karen. Out of Africa

Cooper, Frederick. Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Fuller, Alexandra. Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Isbister, John. Promises Not Kept: Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development (Kumarian Press, 2001)

Kapuscinski, Ryszard. The Shadow of the Sun

Miller, Berna and Torr, James D. Developing Nations (Greenhaven Press, Current Controversies Series, 2003)

Poole, Joyce. Coming of Age with Elephants

Richmond, Yale and Phyllis Gestrin. Into Africa: Intercultural Insights (Intercultural Press, 1998)

Ryszard Kapuszinski, The Shadow of the Sun

Sapolsky, Robert. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

 

 

 

BOTSWANA

Adams, JS & McShane, TO. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion (CA: University of California Press, 1996)

Democracy in Botswana (Gaborone: The Botswana Society, 1989)

Owens, Mark and Delia. Cry of the Kalahari

Silitshena, RMK & McLeod, G. Botswana: A Physical, Social, and Economic Geography (Gaborone: Longman Botswana, 1989)

 

 

 

 

CAMEROON

Makuchi, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Ohio University Press, 1999)

Mbaku, John Mukum. Culture and Customs of Cameroon (Greenwood Press, 2005)

 

 

 

GHANA

Aidoo, Ama Ata. Changes: A Love Story (NY: The Feminist Press at the City of New York, 1993)

Armah, Ayi Kwei. The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1969)

Emmanuel's Gift

Kwei Quartey, Wife of the Gods

Kwei Quartey, Children of the Streets

Sarpong, Peter. Ghana in Retrospect: Aspects of Ghanaian Culture (Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1991)

 

 

 

KENYA

Anderson, David. Histories of the Hanged. Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of the Empire (Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2005)

Azevedo, Mario. Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Nation (Carolina Academic Press, 1993)

Middletown, John. African Merchants of the Indian Ocean: Swahili of the East African Coast (Waveland Press, Inc., 2004)

Miller, Norman and Roger Yeager. Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993)

Sheriff, Abdul. Slave Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar (London: James Currey; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987)

 

 

 

MADAGASCAR

Harper, Janice. Endangered Species: Health, Illness, and Death Among Madagascar's People of the Forest (Carolina Academic Press, 2002)

Jolly, Alison. Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

Randrianja, Solofo and Stephen Ellis. Madagascar: A Short History (Hurst, 2009)

Tyson, Peter. The Eights Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar (Harper Collins, 2001)

 

 

 

SOUTH AFRICA

Alan Paton.  Cry, the Beloved Country

Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom (Randburg, South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994)

Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Plume Books, 1990)

McCrea, Barbara. South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland (Rough Guides, 1999)

Sparks, Allister. Beyond the Miracle (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2003)

Thompson, Leonard. A History of South Africa (Yale University Press, 2001)

 

 

 

TANZANIA

Hall, Richard. Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders (London: Heinemann 1996)

Hartley, Aidan. The Zanzibar Chest (Riberhead Trade, 2004)

Sheriff, Abdul and Ed Ferguson. Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule (Nairobi: Heinemann Publishers, 1991)