Multicultural Reading : Africa

Sehome High School Library

Date: 9/22/2005

200.9 Mbiti

Mbiti, John S. African religions & philosophy. New York, :

Praeger, [1969]. Concept of time. The Nature of God. The

Works of God. God and nature. Spiritual beings, spirits and

the living dead. Creation and original state of man. Ethnic

groups. Birth and childhood. Initiation and puberty rites.

Marriage and procreation. Death and the hereafter.

Medicine-men, rainmakers, kings and priests. Mystical power,

magic, witchcraft and sorcery. Concepts of evil.

Christianity, Islam and other religions in Africa.

Introduces the reader to the most important aspect of

African life: African man lives in a religious universe. All

his activities are seen and experienced through religious

understanding and meaning.

303.48 Th

Thornton, John Kelly, 1949-. Africa and Africans in the making

of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New

York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. Analyzes the role

of the slave trade in the commerce and navigation of the

Atlantic Ocean between 1400 and 1800.

305.2 Meyer

Meyer, Carolyn. Voices of South Africa : growing up in a

troubled land. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

c1986. The author recounts her visit to South Africa where

she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white,

to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart

by racial strife.

305.4 Ma

Mathabane, Mark. African women : three generations.

HarperCollins, 1994. Three women relatives of the author

tell their stories and give us a glimpse of the lives of

South African blacks.

305.8 Lelyveld

Lelyveld, Joseph. Move your shadow : South Africa Black and

White. 1st ed. New York : Time Books, c1985. Provides a

look at the South African way of life and racial policy.

305.8 North

North, James. Freedom rising. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co.,

c1985. Relates the author's four and a half year journey

through southern Africa and his interviews with many people

of all colors and backgrounds.

330.96 Problems

Problems of Africa : opposing viewpoints. St. Paul, Minn. :

Greenhaven Press, c1986. Presents opposing viewpoints

placed back to back to create a running debate concerning

news issues in Africa such as apartheid and famine.

398 Mc

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. The girl who married a lion and

other tales from Africa. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon

Books, c2004. Contains a collection of forty traditional

African folktales.

398.2 Arnott

Kathleen Arnott. African myths and legends. New York, : Henry

Z. Walck, 1963. Includes myths and legends from Nigeria,

Congo, Ghana, East/central Africa and South Africa.

398.2 Parrinder

Geoffrey Parrinder. African mythology. London, : Paul Hamlyn,

1967. Describes myths of Africans, from the sophisticated

societies of Uganda and Nigeria to lesser known Bushmen and

Pygmies, and relates the African traditions. A selection of

animal folktales concludes the book.

828 Lessing

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. African laughter : four visits to

Zimbabwe. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins

Publishers, c1992. The author recounts her four visits to

Zimbabwe after being exiled for twentyfive years for her

opposition to white minority government.

896 Cartey

Cartey, Wilfred G., 1931- comp. Palaver; : modern African

writings,. New York, : T. Nelson, [1970]. Folk myth and

believing -- The elements threaten -- The environment

vibrates -- The land is tilled -- And made desolate by man

-- But still, woman and love. A selection of African

stories, plays and poetry.

896 Hughes

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, ed. An African treasury : articles,

essays, stories, poems,. New York, : Crown Publishers,

[1960]. Contains articles, essays, stories and poetry from

the African countries of South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya,

Ghana, Sierra Leone and Senegal.

896 Mphahlele

Mphahlele, Ezekiel ed. African writing today. Baltimore :

Penguin, 1967. Nigeria : Chinua Achebe. Cyprian Ekwensi.

Wole Soyinka. Amos Tutuola. Onuora Nzekwu.-- Sierra Leone :

Abioseh Nicol. Sarif Easmon.-- Ghana : Kwesi Brew. Christina

Ama Ata Aidoo. George Awoonor-Williams.-- Kenya : Kuldip

Sondhi. Joseph E. Kariuki. Grace Ogot.--Congo (Brazzaville)

: Felix Tchikaya U'Tam'si. Sylvain Bemba.--Congo

(Leopoldville) : Antoine-Roger Bolamba.--Ruanda :

Jean-Baptiste Mutabaruka.--Senegal : Birago Diop. David

Diop. Ousmane Soce. Joseph Zobel. Leopold Sedar Senghor.

--Guinea :camara Laye.--Cameroun : Mbella Sonne Dipoko.

Ferdinand Oyono.--Ivory Coast : Ake Loba.--Dahomey : Paulin

Joachim. Jean Pliya.--Gambia : Lenrie Peters.--South Africa

: Ezekiel Mphahlele. Richard Rive. Alex La Guma. Can Themba.

Dennis Brutus. Todd Matshikiza. Mazisi Kunene. Lewis

Nkose.--Angola : Agostinho Neto.--Mozambique : J.

Craveirinha. Luis Bernaredo Honwana. Kalungano. Rui Nogar.

896 Okpaku

Okpaku, Joseph ed. New African literature and the arts. New

York : Thomas Crowell, 1970. Essays -- Poetry -- Short

stories -- Drama and films -- Music and dance -- Art.

896.08 Brooks

Brooks, Charlotte, comp. African rhythms : selected stories and

poems. New York : Pocket Books : distributed by Simon &

Schuster, 1974.

896.08 Larson

Larson, Charles R., comp. African short stories; : a collection

of contemporary African writing,. [New York] : Collier

Books, [1970]. Black girl, by S. Ousmane -- The truly

married woman, by A. Nicol -- The party, by J. Matthews --

The complete gentleman, by A. Tutuola -- Sarzan, by B. Diop

--The winner, by B. Kimenye -- A matter of taste, by A. La

Guma -- The tax dodger, by C. Duodu -- A meeting in the

dark, by J. Ngugi -- Mulyankota, by N. Sentongo -- Mrs.

Plum, by E. Mphahlele.

896.08 Miller

Miller, James E. Black African voices. New York : Scott,

Foresman, 1970. The Blacks (essay), by Peter Abrahams.--The

dancer, by Assoi Adiko.--Anansi's fishing expedition, a tale

from Ghana.--Song of a mother to her first-born, poem from

the Sudan.--Justice, a tale from Ethiopia.--Talk, a tale

from Ghana.--How hawk learned of the shallow hearts of men,

a tale from Liberia.--How the world changed, a tale from

Liberia.--Song of the poor man, a poem from Zanzibar.--The

talking skull, a tale from Nigeria.--Four tales from

Togoland : Eye of the giant, The singing cloak, The gourd

full of wisdom, The hunter who hunts no more.--The lonely

soul, by R.E.G. Armattoe.--Funeral of a whale, by J.

Benibengor Blay.--Night rain and Girl bathing, by J.P.

Clark, and other poems, tales and stories from Africa.

910 Ka

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-. The ends of the earth : from Togo to

Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the

frontiers of anarchy. 1st Vintage Departures ed. New York

: Vintage Departures, 1997. Political journalist Robert D.

Kaplan travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to write

about the crumbling nation-states, expanding populations,

shrinking resources, and more.

910.4 Schwartz

Schwartz, Brian. A world of villages. 1st ed. New York : Crown

Publishers, c1986. Africa : overture.--Across Africa.--A

hostage in Amin's Uganda.--India and Nepal.--From Burma to

Bali.--New Guinea.--Indonesia.--India.--The North-West

frontier.--Kashmir, Ladakh, and the Tribal

zone.--Afghanistan.--Iran, Syria, and Egypt, 1978.--The

Sudan.--Zaire : villages and pygmies.--Across the Congo

Basin.--Central African empire, Cameroun, and

Nigeria.--Nomads.--Ghana: 1979.--From Togo to

Timbuctu.--Liberia and Sierra

Leone.--Guinea.--Abidjan.--Downtown Nairobi.--Return to

Sudan.--Convoys to Karamoja.--Life in Namalu.--Village in

India.--Nepal, Thailand, and Burma revisited.--China off the

beaten track.--Tibet, 1982. The story of the author's

six-year journey along the back roads of Africa and Asia.

916 Greene

Greene, Graham, 1904-. Journey without maps. Viking, 1936.

Englishman Graham Greene journeyed alone and on foot 350

miles through the uncharted primitive wilderness of the

great forest of Liberia, where no white man had ever been

seen before and where civilization, in the form of roads and

maps, had never penetrated.

916.1 Keith

Keith, Agnes Newton. Children of Allah. Boston : Little, 1966.

Describes Islamic life in the desert areas of North Africa

in the area of Libya, Algeria and Tunisia.

916.762 Huxley

Huxley, Elspeth. The Flame trees of Thika : memories of an

African childhood. Morrow, 1959. A vivid and captivating

narrative about a young girl who goes with her parents to

pioneer in Kenya when that country was first opened for

white settlement.

916.8 Beyond

Beyond the barricades : popular resistance in South Africa. New

York : Aperture Foundation, 1989. Twenty South African

photographers record South African life, along with personal

accounts selected from published sources, archives, lawyer's

files and court records.

916.8 Mandela

Mandela, Winnie. Part of my soul went with him. 1st ed. New

York : Norton, 1985, c1984. Interviews, letters, etc.

describe the author's enforced separation from her husband,

the South African leader of the outlawed African National

Congress.

916.8 Paton

Paton, Jonathan. The land and people of South Africa. 1st ed.

New York : Lippincott, c1990. An introduction to the

history, economy, geography, politics, art, and culture of

South Africa. Dutch; Diamonds gold; music.

960 Murray

Murray, Jocelyn, 1929-. Africa : cultural atlas for young

people. New York : Facts on File, 1990.

Geography.--Rainfall & temperature.--Kingdoms.--African

art.--Education and literacy.--Music and dance.--Houses and

villages.--Nomadic life.--A Dogon village.--Yoruba

traditional relition.--Asante ceremonial regalia.--Nigerian

art.--Pygmy encampment in Zaire.--Game parks of East

Africa.--Mineral resources.--Hunter-gatherers of Southern

Africa. Describes the history of Africa and examines the

tribes and cultures of its countries.

962 Moorehead

Moorehead, Alan, 1910-. The Blue Nile. 1st Vintage Books ed.

New York : Vintage Books, 1983, c1972. The Reconaissance --

The French in Egypt -- The Turks in the Sudan -- The British

in Ethiopia. Covers the period from 1700 to 1869. Follows

the lives of four men who were important in the history of

the Nile: James Bruce, a Scot who journeyed to the supposed

source of the Blue Nile and stayed in warring Ethiopia;

Napoleon, who led an expedition to Egypt, in search of

military glory; the Turk Mohammed Ali, who sent his son to

conquer the Sudan in a ruthless quest for gold and slaves;

and Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia, a tyrant whose

ill-treatment of British captives brought retribution on his

head in the form of a great Anglo-Indian army.

966.62 Re

Reef, Catherine. This our dark country : the American settlers

of Liberia. New York : Clarion Books, c2002. "These Free,

Sunny Shores" -- "Beyond the Reach of Mixture" -- Divine

providence -- Americans -- Life upriver -- Progress -- "Some

Fertile Country" -- "The Beclouded Sun" -- Epilogue:

Liberia, troubled land. Explores the history of the colony,

later the independent nation of Liberia, which was

established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven

for free African Americans.

966.9 Levy

Levy, Patricia Marjorie, 1951-. Nigeria. New York : Marshall

Cavendish, 1993. Describes the geography, history,

government, economy, and culture of Nigeria.

967.57104 Ma

Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-. When victims become killers :

colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.

Examines the factors that played a part in motivating large

numbers of ordinary citizens to become genocidal murderers

during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

967.62 Dinesen

Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962. Out of Africa. New York, : Modern

Library, [1952]. Isak Dinesen tells of life on a coffee

plantation in Kenya, revealing the African landscape in all

its vibrant beauty. Her description of the strange ways of

the natives is a discovery and experience for the reader.

967.62 Megerssa

Megerssa, Gemetchu. Booran. New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1995.

Booran people.--Land and livelihood.--History.--Social

organization.--Religion and worldview.

967.62 Zeleza

Zeleza, Tiyambe, 1955-. The Maasai. New York : Rosen

Publishing, 1994. Examines the Maasai people and the area

they inhabit in Kenya and Tanzania. Social structure,

neighboring peoples, colonial rule, independence, and

political and social changes are covered in short chapters.

967.7305 Bo

Bowden, Mark, 1951-. Black Hawk down : a story of modern war.

New York : Penguin Books, 2000. A narrative of how

ninety-nine elite American soldiers find themselves trapped

in Mogadishu, Somalia, and how they fought their way out

during Operation Restore Hope.

968 Addison

Addison, John. Apartheid. London : Batsford Academic and

Educational, 1981. Presents apartheid in its historical

context, explains apartheid policies, and the effect of

these polices on race relations.

968 Ma

Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's

coming of age in Apartheid South Africa. New York : New

American Library, 1987, c1986. Recreates the author's

boyhood experiences in South Africa.

968 No

No more strangers now : young voices from a new South Africa.

New York : DK Publ., 1998. Ricardo Tollie -- Leandra Jansen

van Vuuren -- Michael Njova -- Nithinia Martin-- Nomfundo

Mhlana -- Vuyiswa Mbambisa -- Mark Abrahamson -- Bandile

Mashinini -- Pfano Takalani -- Lebogang Maile -- Nonhlanhla

Mavundla -- Lavendhri Pillay. In their own words, a variety

of teenagers from South Africa talk about their years

growing up under apartheid, and about the changes now

occurring in their country.

968 Rosmarin

Rosmarin, Ike, 1915-. South Africa. New York : Marshall

Cavendish, 1993. Describes the geography, history,

government, economy, and culture of South Africa.

968.06 Manning

Manning, Richard, 1950-. They cannot kill us all : an eyewitness

account of South Africa today. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,

1987. Describes South Africans of every race, class, and

outlook.

968.06 McCuen

The Apartheid reader. Hudson, WI : Gary E. McCuen Publications,

1986. Realities of Apartheid: the apartheid system --

Separate development -- Tribal homelands -- Hunger in the

homelands --Health care under apartheid -- Women under

apartheid -- Children under apartheid -- The torture and the

terror: enforcing apartheid -- Internal Resistance and

Political Change -- Apartheid is changing -- Growing

repression and resistance -- Voices of non-violence --

Voices of armed struggle -- Political reform -- Corporated

Divestment -- The Sullivan Principles -- U.S. and South

Africa: Curtailing exports to South AFrica -- Trade

restrictions -- Nuclear collaboration -- Nuclear

non-proliferation -- Reinforcing apartheid -- Peaceful

reform. Conflicting viewpoints on the apartheid system in

South Africa.

968.06 Sampson

Sampson, Anthony. Nelson Mandela : the authorized biography.

1st American ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random

House, 1999.

968.06 Soweto

Magubane, Peter. Soweto : the fruit of fear. Grand Rapids,

Mich. : Trenton, N.J. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. ; Africa

World Press, c1986. First published under title: June 16 :

the fruit of fear. Captioned photographs and introductory

text relates the traumatic upheaval under apartheid since

June 16, 1976 in South Africa.

968.06 Woods

Woods, Donald, 1933-. Biko. Rev. and updated ed. New York : H.

Holt, c1987. Details the arrest, torture, and killing of

Bantu Stephen Biko, a black South African leader, and the

persecution of his white journalist friend, Donald Woods.

968.092 Ma

Mandela, Nelson, 1918-. Mandela : an illustrated autobiography.

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1996. Photographic memoir

of the life of Nelson Mandela, recounting the development of

his political consciousness, his role in the formation of

the African National Congress Youth League, his

imprisonment, and the events leading to his election as

president of South Africa.

968.91 Fu

Fuller, Alexandra, 1969-. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight :

an African childhood. New York : Random House Trade

Paperbacks, c2003. Alexandra Fuller chronicles the

experiences she has while growing up on several farms in

southern and central Africa from 1972 to 1990.

F Adichie

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-. Purple hibiscus : a novel.

1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2004. When

their country falls under a military coup, fifteen-year-old

Kambili and her brother are sent to live with their aunt

where they discover a home filled with love and laughter, so

unlike the home they left behind.

F Beake

Beake, Lesley. Song of Be. 1st American ed. New York : Holt,

1993. Be, a young Bushman woman searching in the desert for

the peace she remembers from her childhood, realizes that

she and her people must reconcile new personal and political

realities with ancient traditions.

F Coetzee

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-. Age of Iron. 1st American ed. New York

: Random House, c1990. Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in

Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the

brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms

with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.

F Coman

Coman, Carolyn. Many stones. Asheville, North Carolina, : Front

Street, 2000. After her sister Laura is murdered in South

Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to

participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.

F Courtenay

Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-. The power of one. 1st American ed.

New York : Random House : Ballantine, c1989. Story of

Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World

War II whose dream is to become the welterweight champion of

the world.

F Dickinson

Dickinson, Peter, 1927-. AK. New York : Delacorte Press, 1992.

When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn

African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee

into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek

his life.

F Emecheta

Emecheta, Buchi. The joys of motherhood : a novel. New York :

G. Braziller, c1979. When Nnu Ego fails to conceive a child

in her first marriage, she becomes an outcast, but finally

succeeds and gives birth to eight children in her second

marriage amid the backdrop of changing values among her

tribe.

F Farmer

Farmer, Nancy, 1941-. A girl named Disaster. New York : Orchard

Books, c1996. While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old

Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so

doing comes close to the luminous world of the African

spirits.

F Farmer

Farmer, Nancy, 1941-. The ear, the eye and the arm : a novel.

New York : Puffin, 1995. In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General

Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a

plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special

powers to search for them.

F Gordimer

Gordimer, Nadine. My son's story. 1st ed. New York : Farrar

Straus Giroux, c1990. Sonny, son of a political activist in

South Africa, sees his revered father coming out of a cinema

with a young white woman. His already complex feelings about

his father become more complex and confused, but at the same

time bring him a sense of freedom and understanding.

F Head

Head, Bessie, 1937-. When rain clouds gather. Oxford ;

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 1987, c1969. South African

political refugee, Makhaya, and Englishman Gilbert Balfour

join forces to revolutionize the villagers' traditional

farming methods.

F Johnston

Johnston, Norma. Return to Morocco. 1st ed. New York : Four

Winds Press, c1988. Shortly after she and her grandmother

arrive in Morocco, seventeen-year-old Tori finds herself

faced with sudden death and a secret from her grandmother's

past.

F Kessler

Kessler, Cristina. No condition is permanent. New York :

Philomel Books, 2000. When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie

accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra

Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural

divide that cannot be crossed.

F Kessler

Kessler, Cristina. Our secret, Siri Aang. New York : Philomel

Books, c2004. Namelok, a Masai girl, tries to persuade her

traditionalist father to delay her initiation and marriage

because they will restrict her freedom and keep her from the

black rhino mother and baby she is protecting from poachers.

F Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936. The Light that failed. Doubleday,

1899. Through his experience as an illustrator in the

Sudan, the hero, Dick Heldar, wins both success and a firm

friend in the war correspondent Torpenhow. He loves Maisie,

an artist who does not return his affection.

F Lanham

Lanham, Peter. Blanket boy. New York : Crowell, 1953. Monare,

an African tribesman and a hunted man after committing

tribal murder, flees to Johannesburg where he learns the

white mans' foreign ways. He encounters native Christian

ministers who battle primitive belief and Moslems, who offer

yet another method of salvation, and struggles to reconcile

black man's heritage with white man's justice.

F Le

Lester, Julius. Pharaoh's daughter : a novel of ancient Egypt.

1st ed. San Diego : Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace, c2000.

A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an

Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a

prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self

as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.

F Mahfouz

Mahfuz, Najib, 1912-. The Cairo trilogy. New York : Alfred A.

Knopf, 2001. Palace walk -- Palace of desire -- Sugar

street. A trilogy tracing three generations of a Muslim

family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the

early twentieth century.

F Maran

Maran, Rene. Batouala : a true Black novel. Black Orpheus

Press, 1972. Batoula is the chief of a small tribe of

Bandas who live under French colonial rule in the Congo

around the time of World War I. The novel examines

traditional African tribal life in the villages - the hatred

of the Africans for the whites and the passions of hunting,

the love feast and the village men for Batoula's favorite

wife.

F McCall-Smith

McCall Smith, R. A. The Kalahari typing school for men. 1st

Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2004. Precious

Ramotswe, the founder of a successful detective agency has

everything she has ever wanted, but then she begins having

family problems and a new detective agency opens on the

other side of town.

F McCall-Smith

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. The full cupboard of life. 1st

Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2005. While

waiting for the date of her own wedding, Madame Ramotswe and

her friends in the Ladies Detective Agency have been hired

to investigate whether a wealthy woman's suitors want her or

her money.

F McCall-Smith

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-. In the company of cheerful

ladies. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.