Pathfinders for African Resources

 General Reference Materials:

See: "How to Use an Encyclopedia"  http://www.fs.gov.za/Departments/SAC/Library/encyclopedia.htm

World Book Encyclopedia

"Africa - People"

 Go to the Index.  Use also these search terms:

         the country(ies) your group lives in

         the name of your tribe or group

         the language your group speaks

Encyclopedia Britannica

 "Africa - MICROPAEDIA"

 "Africa - MACROPAEDIA"

 "Africa - Culture"

  "Africa - History"

  "Africa - Population and demography"

  "Africa - Religion"

 Go to the Index.  Use also these search terms:

         the country(ies) your group lives in

         the name of your tribe or group

         the language your group speaks

Subject Specific Reference Materials:

Cultural atlas of Africa.

Lands and peoples.

Maps on file 1996.

Peoples of Africa.

World book atlas.

Other Print Materials:

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

 Folk tales & fables of the Middle East and Africa.

 Tuareg.

 Nations of Africa : the Diagram Group. 

 Peoples of Central Africa. 

Africa and the origin of humans. 

Peoples of West Africa.

 Peoples of East Africa.

 Peoples of Southern Africa. 

Aardema, Verna. Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale.

Abrahams, Roger D., ed. African folktales. 

Af·olayan, Funso S. Culture and customs of South Africa. 

Asante, Molefi K. Culture and customs of Egypt. 

Atmore, Anthony. Black kingdoms, black peoples : the West African heritage. 

Benson, Mary. Nelson Mandela : the man and the movement. 

Brett, Michael. The Moors : Islam in the west. 

Courlander, Harold. Tales of Yoruba gods and heroes. 

Diagram Group. Peoples of North Africa. 

Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the grass. 

Denbow, James R.  Culture and customs of Botswana.

Falola, Toyin. Culture and customs of Nigeria. 

Gaines, Ann. Nelson Mandela and apartheid in world history. 

Gates, Henry Louis. Wonders of the African world. 

Haggett, Peter. Encyclopedia of world geography. 

Hamilton, Janice. South Africa in pictures. 

Haskins, James. From Afar to Zulu : a dictionary of African cultures. 

Heale, Jay. Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Jones, Constance. Africa : 1500-1900. 

Koslow, Philip. Centuries of greatness : the West African kingdoms : 750-1900..

Litto, Fredric M. Plays from black Africa.

Lugira, Aloysius M. African religion.

Makeba, Miriam. Makeba : my story. 

Mandela, Nelson. Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. 

Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa. 

Mbaku, John Mukum. Culture and customs of Cameroon.

McKissack, Patricia. The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay. 

Montgomery, Bertha Vining. Cooking the West African way. 

Ndege, George O. Culture and customs of Mozambique.

Njokku, Raphael Chijioke. Culture and customs of Moroscco.

Olukoju, Ayodeji.  Culture and customs of Liberia.

Otiso, Kefa M.  Culture and customs of Uganda.

Oyebade, Adebayo.  Culture and customs of Angola. 

Taylor, Scott D. Culture and customs of Zambia.

Woodfork, Jacqueline Cassandra.  Culture and customs of the Central African Republic.

Video Resources:

Africa. Vol. 1-5

Wonders of the African world with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  

Online Resources:

Africa: the Art of a Continent  http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa/index.html

Africa: the Cradle of Civilization  http://library.thinkquest.org/C002739/AfricaSite/1Main.shtm?tqskip1=1

African Studies Center – U of Penn  http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/Country.html

Africa Timelines  http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm

African Voices  http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/index.html?main+intro+intro

Art & Life in Africa: Countries Resources  http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries.html

Art & Life in Africa: Peoples Resources  http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people.html

Civilizations in Africa  http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAFRCA/AXUM.HTM  (use the pull-down menu to access different groups)

EBSCO - Student Research Center  http://search.ebscohost.com/

InfoPlease - general online encyclopedia  http://www.infoplease.com/index.html

Introduction: Diffusion and other Problems in the History of African States  http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinstate.html

The Kennedy Center: African Odyssey Interactive: History and Educational Resources  http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/history/artsedge.html

L of C Country Studies  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/continent_africa.html

L of C Portals to the World  http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Wonders of the African World  http://www.pbs.org/wonders/index.html

Yoruba Art and Akan Goldweights   http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/africart/home.html

Last updated: 12/6/2006