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Amadiume, Ifi. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. London: Zed, 1987.

Amuta, Chidi. The Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism. London: Zed, 1989.

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Arkhurst, Joyce Cooper. The Adventures Of Spider: West African Folk Tales. Boston, Little, Brown, 1964. [COCC Library: PZ7.A75 A4 1964]

Asante, Molefi Kete, and Abu S. Abarry, ed. African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

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Awoonor, Kofi. The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture, Literature of Africa South of the Sahara. 1975. Doubleday, 1976. NOK, 1983.

Badejo, Deidre. "The Yoruba and Afro-American Trickster: A Contextual Comparison." Presence Africaine 147 (1988): 3-17.

Bebey, Francis. African Music: A People's Art. New York: Lawrence Hill, 1975.

Beier, Ulli. The Origin Of Life And Death: African Creation Myths. London, Heinemann, 1966. [COCC Library: GR355 .B4 1966]

Black Renaissance / Renaissance Noire. [Ed. Africana Studies Program and Institute of African American Studies at New York Univ., and pub. Indiana Univ. Press.]
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Boyce Davies, Carole. Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Boyce Davies, Carole, and Elaine Savory Fido, eds. Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990.

Boyce Davies, Carole, and Anne Adams Graves. eds. Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Trenton: African World P, 1986.

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Brown, Ella. "Reactions to Western Values as Reflected in African Novels." Phylon 18.3 (1987): 216-228.

Brown, Lloyd W. Women Writers in Black Africa. Contributions in Women's Studies No. 2 Greenwood, 1981.

Bruner, Charlotte H., ed. The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993.

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Connah, Graham. African Civilizations : Precolonial Cities And States In Tropical Africa : An Archaeological Perspective. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], UK; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. [COCC Library: DT352.3 .C66 1987].

Conneau, Théophile. Captain Canot, An African Slaver [Written out and edited from the captain's journals, memoranda, and conversations, by Brantz Mayer.] New York : Arno Press, 1968. [COCC Library: HT1322 .C58 1968]

Conniff, Michael L., and Thomas J. Davis. Africans in the Americas : A History of the Black Diaspora. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. [COCC Library: E29.N3 C76 1994]

Courlander, Harold. A Treasury Of African Folklore : The Oral Literature, Traditions, Myths, Legends, Epics, Tales, Recollections, Wisdom, Sayings, And Humor Of Africa. New York : Crown Publishers, 1975. [COCC Library: GR350 .C67 1975]

Curtin, Philip D., ed. Africa Remembered; Narratives By West Africans From The Era Of The Slave Trade, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. [COCC Library: DT471 .C8]

Diallo, Yaya, and Mitchell Hall. The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings. Rochester, VT:Destiny Books, 1989.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1990.

Donnell, Alison, and Sarah Lawson Welsh, eds. The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature. London/New York: Routledge, 1996.

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Fister, Barbara. Third World Women's Literatures : A Dictionary And Guide To Materials In English. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995. [COCC Library: PN849.U43 F58 1995]

Foley, John Miles. Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990. [COCC Library: PN56.E65 F65 1990]

Fredrickson, George M. Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Gakwandi, Shatto. "Soyinka’s The Interpreters and Achebe’s A Man of the People," Ch. 4 "Disenchantment" of The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa [bibliographical information incomplete – sorry!]. 66-86.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Black Literature And Literary Theory. 1984. New York: Routledge, 1990. [COCC Library: PS153.N5 B555 1990]

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Gbadamosi, Bakare, and Ulli Beier. Not Even God Is Ripe Enough: Yoruba Stories. London, Ibadan, [etc.] Heinemann Educational, 1968. [COCC Library: PL8824 .G3 1968]

Gititi, Gitahi. "African Theory and Criticism." The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. 5-9.

Gleason, Judith, ed. Leaf and Bone: African Praise-Poems. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

"Gordimer, Nadine." [Inset: "Censorship and Its Aftermath," June 1990]. Contemporary Authors. Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1981 - 1991.

Gordon, April A., and Donald L. Gordon, eds. Understanding Contemporary Africa. 2^nd ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.

Gragg, Gene. [Professor of Near Eastern Languages, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago] "Etymology and Electronics: The Afroasiatic Index" (1996; rev. 1998): n. pag. Online. The Afroasiatic Index. The Oriental Institute. University of Chicago. Rpt. The Oriental Institute News and Notes, 149 (Spring 1996). Internet. Available: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CUS/NN_Spr96/NN_Spr96.html [last accessed Jan. 2000].

Graham, Ronnie, ed. The World Of African Music. London : Pluto Press ; Chicago : Research Associates ; Chicago : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Frontline Dist. Int'l, 1992. [COCC Library: ML3502.5 .G73 1992]

Gugelberger, Georg M., ed. Marxism and African Literature. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1986. [COCC Library: PL8010 .M35 1986]

Gunner, Elizabeth. A Handbook for Teaching African Literature. 2^nd ed. Oxford, UK: Heinemann, 1987.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, ed. Essays on African Writing: A Re-Evaluation. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993.

Gyekye, Kwame. "The Idea of African Philosophy." In Asante and Abarry, 294-305.

Gyekye, Kwame. An Essay on African Philosophical Thought. : The Akan Conceptual Scheme. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. [Copy ordered for COCC Library on 08-19-98.]

Hale, Thomas C. Scribe, Griot, and Novelist: Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire followed by the Epic of Askia Mohammed recounted by Nouhou Malio. Gainesville: U of Florida P-Center for African Studies, 1990.

Halsall, Paul (History Dept. Fordham Univ.). Internet African History Sourcebook. (June-August 1998): n. pag. Online. The Internet History Sourcebooks Project. Internet. Available: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html [Accessed Dec. 1999]

Havilland, William A. Anthropology. 7th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994.

Harrow, Kenneth W., ed. Faces of Islam in African Literature. Studies in African Literature. New Series. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann; London : J. Currey, 1991. [COCC Library: PL8010 .F3 1991]

Hilliard, Constance B., ed. Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Holloway, Joseph E., ed. Africanisms in African-American Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.

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Jahn, Janheinz. Muntu; An Outline of the New African Culture. Trans. Marjorie Grene. New York: Grove Press, 1961. [COCC Library: DT352 .J313]

James, Adeola, ed. In Their Own Voices : African Women Writers Talk. London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1990. [COCC Library: PR9340.5 .I5 1990]

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Jones, Eldred Durosimi, and Marjorie Jones, ed. New Trends and Generations in African Literature: A Review. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 1996.

Jones, Eldred Durosimi, Eustace Palmer, and Marjorie Jones, ed. Orature in African Literature Today: A Review. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 1992.

Julien, Eileen. "African Literature." In Africa. 3^rd ed. Eds. Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O’Meara. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. 295-312.

Kaarsholm, Preben, ed. Cultural Struggle and Development in Southern Africa. Heinemann: 1991.

Kamalu, Chukwunyere. Foundations of African Thought: A Worldview Grounded in the African Heritage of Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art. London: Karnak House, 1990.

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Keita: The Heritage of the Griot. Dir. Dani Kouyate. Afix Productions [Burkina Faso/France], 1994. Perf. Seydou Boro, Hamed Dicko, Abdoulaye Domboudri, Sotiguy Kouyate, Claire Sanon, Blandine Yameogo. Available from California Newsreel (San Francisco, CA), Library of African Cinema: http://www.newsreel.org/films/keita.htm

Kelly, Gail P., and Carolyn M. Elliott, eds. Women's Education in the Third World: Comparative Perspectives. Albany: State U of New York P, 1982.

Kerr, David. African Popular Theatre : From Pre-Colonial Times To The Present Day. London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Nairobi : EAEP ; Cape Town : D. Philip ; Harare : Baobab, 1995. [COCC Library: PN2969 .K47 1995]

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Masonen, Pekka. The Negroland Revisited. Discovery and Invention of the Sudanese Middle Ages. Helsinki, Finland: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, Humaniora 309, 2000.

[Author's Abstract:] "My book examines the development of African historiography in Europe, from the Renaissance to the 1920s, with special emphasis on the ancient West African empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. A review was published in American Historical Review, April 2002, pp.496-497 " (African Timelines web contribution, 17 October 2002).

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Wilentz, Gay. Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in African and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.

Wilkinson, Jane, ed. Talking with African Writers : Interviews With African Poets, Playwrights & Novelists. London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1992. [COCC Library: PR9340 .T35 1992]

The World of the Mande: History, Art and Ritual In the Mande Culture (student webwork, 1997 - 1999): n. pag. Online. Anthropology/Africana Studies 269 and Anthropology/Africana Studies 267 (Prof. Bastian, Anthropology Dept., Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA). Internet. Now available: http://www/fandm.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/home.html
[first accessed 1997; last accessed Jan. 2000]. Links to student web-essays on:
..."Caste Systems in Mande Society" [student webwork; originally from Anthropology 269, 1997]: Now available: http://www/fandm.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/caste.htm [first accessed 1997; last accessed Jan. 2000].
..."Magic and Art in West Africa" [student webwork; originally from Anthropology 269, 1997]: Now available: http://www/fandm.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/magic.html [first accessed 1997; last accessed Jan. 2000].

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