Africa: General
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Africa Action. Incorporates American Committee on Africa, Africa Fund, & Africa Policy Information Center.
Afrol. Independent news & commentary on Africa (Spanish & English).
Focus on Africa (BBC). Invaluable for current events.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
Kabissa: Space for Change in Africa.
In the Library: Articles
Bennett, Lisa. "The trouble with tribe: how a common word masks complex African realities," Teaching Tolerance (Spring, 2001).
Eviatar, Daphne. "The lost continent," American Prospect (7/1/04). Review essay on French, Continent for the Taking.
North, James. "Hunger in Africa," Nation (4/14/84).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abraham, Keshia Nicole; Patricia McFadden & others. Reflections on Gender Issues in Africa (Harare: SAPES, 1999).
Adelman, Howard & John Sorenson (eds.) African Refugees: Development Aid & Repatriation (Boulder: Westview, 1994).
Bernault, Florence (ed.) A History of Prison & Confinement in Africa [1999] (trans. Janet Roitman; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003).
Carver, Richard. Truth from Below: The Emergent Press in Africa (London: Article 19, 2991).
__________ & Paul Hunt. National Human Rights Institutions in Africa (Gambia: African Center for Democracy & Human Rights Studies, 1991).
Clapham, Christopher. Africa & the International System: The Politics of State Survival (NY: Cambridge, 1996).
__________ (ed.) African Guerrillas (Bloomington: U. Indiana, 1998).
Clough, Michael. Free at Last? US Policy Towards Africa & the End of the Cold War (NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1992).
Cohen, Ronald; Goran Hyden & Winston P. Nagan (eds.) Human Rights & Governance in Africa (Gainesville: U. Florida, 1993).
Comaroff, John & Jean Comaroff (eds.) Civil Society & the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1999) .
Conteh-Morgan, Earl. Democratization in Africa: The Theory & Dynamics of Political Transitions (Westport CT: Praeger, 1997).
Cooper, Frederick. Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (NY: Cambridge, 2003).
Davidson, Basil. The Black Man's Burden: Africa & the Curse of the Nation-State (NY: Times Books, 1992).
DeWaal, Alexander. Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (Bloomington: Indiana U, 1997).
__________ (ed.) Who Fights? Who Cares? War & Humanitarian Action in Africa (Trenton NJ: Africa World, 2000).
Docking, Tim. AIDS & Violent Conflict in Africa (Washington: US Institute of Peace, 2001).
Duke, Lynne. Mandela, Mobutu & Me: A Newswoman's African Journey (NY: Doubleday, 2003). Washington Post reporter's memoir of late 1990s.
Falola, Toyin. The Power of African Cultures (Rochester, NY: U. of Rochester, 2003).
Fatton, Robet Jr. Predatory Rule: State & Civil Society in Africa (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1992).
Feierman, Steven & John M. Janzen (eds.) The Social Basis of Health & Healing in Africa (Berkeley: U. California, 1992).
French, Howard W. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy & Hope of Africa (NYL Knopf, 2004).
Hammond, Dorothy & Alta Jablow. The Africa that Never Was: Four Centuries of British Writing about Africa (NY: Twayne, 1970).
Huband, Mark. The Skull Beneath the Skin. Africa after the Cold War (Boulder: Westview, 2001).
Iliffe, John. The Emergence of African Capitalism (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1983).
__________. The African Poor: A History (NY: Cambridge, 1987).
__________. The Africans: The History of a Continent (NY: Cambridge, 1995).
Isaacs, Harold R. The New World of Negro Americans (NY: John Day, 1963). On the experiences of Black Americans in Africa.
Marable, Manning. African & Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to the Grenada Revolution (London: Verso, 1987)
McCann, James C. Maize & Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2005).
Mengisteab, Kidane. Globalization & Autocentricity in Africa's Development in the 21st C.(Trenton NJ: Africa World, 1996).
__________ & Cyril Daddieh (eds.) State Building & Democratization in Africa: Faith, Hope & Realities (Westport CT: Praeger, 1999).
Pan, Lynn. Alcohol in Colonial Africa (Helsinki: Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, 1975).
Sanneh, Lamin O. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks & the Making of Modern West Africa (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1999).
Thomas, Dominic. Nation-Building, Propaganda, & Literature in Francophone Africa (Bloomington: Indiana U, 2002).
Turshen, Meredeth. Women & Health in Africa (Trenton NJ: Africa World, 1991).
__________ & Clotilde Twagiramariya (eds.) What Women Do in Wartime: Gender & Conflict in Africa (NY: Zed, 1998).
__________ (ed.) African Women's Health (Trenton NJ: Africa World, 2000).
Werbner, Richard & Terence Ranger (eds.) Postcolonial Identities in Africa (ATlantic Highlands NJ: Zed, 1996).
Zachary, Pascal. “Is there hope for Africa?” In These Times (8/11/03):29-30.
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Lyons, Robert. Another Africa (essay & poems by Chinua Achebe; NY: Anchor, 1998).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
Magnificent introduction to African history, and to role of Islam in Africa,
in several hours of well-researched radio programming with mostly African
voices.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml