Guinea
Basics
CIA
World Factbook
Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Johnson, R.W. "French imperialism in Guinea," in Owen & Sutcliffe (eds.) Studies in the Theory of Imperialism (London: Longman, 1972), pp. 230-47.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Adamolekun, Ladipo. Sekou Toure's Guinea: An Experiment in Nation-Building (London: Methuen, 1976).
Amnesty International. Guinee: emprisonnement, "disparitions" et assassinats politiques en Republique Populaire et Revolutionnaire de Guinee (Paris, 1982).
Diallo, Kadiatou. My Heart Will Cross this Ocean (?:Ballantine, 2003).
The story of Amadou Diallo, West African immigrant gunned down by four NY police.
Human Rights Watch. Guinea: Refugees Still at Risk: Continuing Refugee Protection Concerns in Guinea (NY, 2001).
Laye, Camara. The Dark Child [1954] (NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1984). Eloquent memoir of a boyhood in French colonial Guinea during the 1930's & 40's.
Riviere, Claude. Guinea: The Mobilization of a People (Ithaca: Cornell, 1977).
Sorry, Charles E. Sekou Toure: l'ange exterminateur: un passe a depasser (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000).