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Africa

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

 

 

 

AFRICA IN GENERAL

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

BOTSWANA

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

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

Democracy in Botswana (Gaborone: The Botswana Society, 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)

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)