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  • K-12 approrpriate books: [top]

    • A Grain of wheat by Ngugi wa Thiongo
      • Contemporary Kenyan dissident writes about the independence movement in Kenya
      • Level: 9-12, post

    • African Myths and legends by Arnott, Kathleen
      • African folk tales and myths
      • Level: 4-6, 7-8

    • Africa today.
      • Geography of Africa. A map series: countries, info about economy, population, literacy, industries etc.

    • Are you Listening? Voices from the Middle East by Shedd, Carol Johnson, ed.
      • Various stories from individual of the Middle East
      • Level: 7-12

    • Creative Activities for teaching about Africa
      • Focus: Africa, culture
      • Description: 15 activities: history and culture (art, language folk tales, etc.)
      • Level: K-3, 4-6

    • Exploring the developing world: Life in Africa and Latin America by Byrnes, Ronald S.
      • Geography and culture or current world issues)
      • Level: 9-12*

    • Faces: The magazine about people; Castles and Palaces by Mack, Beverly.
      • African culture: a children's magazine including Pro. Mack's article on an African Palace.
      • Level: 4-6

    • Games of Africa by Prior, Jeniffer
      • African culture: games; the rules including a board and game pieces for “Mancala”.
      • Level: K-3, 4-6

    • Geography unit ; the rain forest by Weston, Jane Marie
      • Geography and global environment: Latin America and Africa. Instructions on how to create a rain forest
      • Level: 4-6

    • I will marry when I want by Ngugi wa Thiongo
      • A play written for Kikuyu language. Landed author in jail for trying t stage it.
      • Level:9-12, post

    • Map and facts: Africa by Barbie Michael
      • African Geography: a wall map of Africa and a variety of info charts on back.
      • Level: 7-8

    • Stories from many lands by Pasamanick, Judith.
      • 12 folktales from 9 different cultures: Russia, China, Africa, Spain, Hopi, Asia, Burma
      • Level: Pre-K, K-3

    • Teen Life in the Middle East by Mahdi, Ali Akbar, ed.
      • Cultural Studies: Offers insight into the typical day, interests, and familial, social, and cultural lives of Middle Eastern teens
      • Level: 7-12

    • The future of our tropical rain forests: A curriculum for global problem by McKission Micki
      • Environment: focus on Latin America and Africa. Gathering info to study rain forests, with teacher info and student activities
      • Level: 4-6, 7-8

    • The kids multicultural art book: Art and Craft experience from around the world by Terzian Alexander M.
      • Simple art and craft from cultures around the world: native Americans, Hispanics African and Asians
      • Level: Pre-K, K-3

    • Time travel books: Myths & Legends, games, puzzles activities
      • Basic myths around the world- Greece Egypt, England, Norse, Roman, Mayan, Chinese
      • Level: K-3, 4-6

    • What is a resource by Becker Laurence
      • Geography of Africa: defines resources and investigates development of resources in Africa
      • Level: 7-8


  • Other Academic Listings[top]

    • Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A short message.2000
    • Arnold, Stephen H. Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti
    • Baalbaki, Rohi. Al Mawrid : a Modern Arabic-English Dictionary
    • Badian, Seydou.Caught In the Storm
    • Balutansky, Kathleen. The Novels of Alex La Guma : The Representation of Political  Conflicts
    • Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. Art , Innovation and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin
    • Bravman, Bill. Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and their Transformation in Taita Kenya.1800-1950
    • Boudjedra, Rashid. The Reputation
    • Chraibi, Driss. Flutes of Death
    • Chraibi, Driss. Mother Comes of Age
    • Clark, Leon E.  Through African Eyes , vol. 2
    • Clark, Leon E. & Fleck, Chadwick. Through African Eyes : Teaching Strangers, vol. 2
    • Dieke, Ikenna. Critical Essays on Alice Walker
    • Farah, Nurrudin. Gifts
    • Farah, Nurrudin. Maps
    • Gagiano, Annie. Achebe, Head, and Mrechera : On Power and Change in Africa
    • Geiger, Susan. Tanyu Women : Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism , 1955-1965
    • Gordon, Jacob U. The African-American Male : an Annotated Bibliography
    • Gray, Christine Rauchfuss. Willis Richardson. Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama
    • Griswold, Wendy. Bearing Witness.
    • Hafner, Dorinda. A taste of Africa.( With over 100 traditional African recipes adapted for the modern cook).
    • Haskins, Jim & Biondi, Joann. From Afar to Zulu: A dictionary of African Cultures.
    • Hathaway, Heather. Caribbean Waves : Relocating Claude McKay and Paul Marshall
    • Helbing, Mark. The Harlem Renaissance : The One and the Many
    • Hlatshwayo, Simphiwe A. Education and Independence : Education in South Africa,1958-1988
    • Ibekwe, Patrick. Wit & Wisdom of Africa
    • Idris, Yusuf. The Cheapest Nights
    • Idris, Yusuf. The Sinners
    • Joyce, Donald Franklin. Rooted in the Chants of Slaves , Blacks in theHumanities, 1985-1997.
    • Kapteijns, Lidwien (with Omar Ali , Maryan). Women’s Voices in a Man’s World
    • Kuhne, Dave. African Settings in Contemporary American Novels
    • Langa, Mandla. The Naked Song and Other Stories
    • Liking, Werewere. It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral  and  Love-across-a-Hundred Lives
    • Mack, Beverly B. & Boyd, Jean. One Woman’s Jihad : Nana Asma’u , Scholar and Scribe
    • Magel, Emil A. Folktales From The Gambia : Wolof Fictional Narratives
    • Magona, Sindiwe.  Mother to Mother
    • McLuckie, Craig W. & Colbert,Patrick J. Critical Perspectives on Dennis Brutus
    • Mokkedem, Malika. Of Dreams and Assassins
    • Ndambuki, Berida & Robertson, Claire C. We only Come Here to Struggle
    • Orji, Cyril U. Lamentation : An immigrant’s Dilemna
    • Oyono, Ferdinand. Road to Europe
    • Ranger, Terence. Voices from the Rocks : Nature , Culture & History in the Matapos Hills of Zimbabwe
    • Sallah, Tijan M. Dreams of Dusty Roads
    • Schoenbrun, David Lee.  A Green Place , a Good Place : Agrarian change, Gender, and social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century
    • Shabbas, Audrey, ed. Arab World Studies Notebook
    • Strachan, Ian G. God’s Angry Babies
    • Sylvester, Christine . Producing women and Progress in Zimbabwe : Narratives of Identity and Work from the 1980s
    • Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed. The Second message of Islam, 1987.
    • Tlili, Mustapha. Lion Mountain
    • The South African Institute of Race Relations. Political Correctness in Southern Africa
    • Wright, Derek. Critical Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah
    • Young, Al.  African-American Literature, A Brief Introduction and Anthology

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Videos [top]

  • PBS Africa series . Seeing Africa through the eyes of Africans. This is an eight part series featuring the following topics.
    1. The Beginning (The Rift Valley)
    2. Life and Death in the Sahara (North Africa)
    3. Shadows in the Rainforest (the Congo Basin)
    4. Fortress of the Sacred (The Horn of Africa)
    5. Ghosts of the Sahel (The Sahel) Sunday
    6. Legends of the Lakes (Great Lakes) Sunday
    7. Secrets of the Swahili Coast Sunday
    8. Southern Treasures (Southern Africa) Sunday

  • Africa Beyond the myths (1995) S.E.V.

  • Africa: Voyage of Discovery narrated by Basil Davidson: African History, culture, and Geography.

  • The Africans: A triple heritage. Written and narrated by Ali Mazrui. (examines the “triple heritage” of traditional African institutions, Islam, and western Christianity and secularism within the continent in an effort to understand contemporary Africa. (good for high school and college students.) A series of 9 programs.

  • Understanding each other (1990) Beacon Films: Helps to dispel stereo types about Africa.

  • South African Dilemmas in the 20th century. Considers how and why the country made its transition from apartheid to true democracy. Grade 9-12

  • Kongo: A kingdom divided. Investigates the relationship between people of the prosperous Kongo kingdom and the Portuguese who began to arrive there in 1483. A stimulation activity is also included. Grade 7-11

  • Search for Africa related films and videos at:


Periodicals[top]

  • African Studies, li> vol. 58, no. 2 December, 1999
  • vol 59, no.1 July 2000
  • Cultural Studies. Vol. 14, no 2 April 2000
  • Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 December, 1999
  • Pretexts : Literary and Cultural Studies , vol. 8 , no. 1July 1999
  • Social Identities, vol. 5, no. 4 (1999 December)
  • Report of the findings of the corporate council on Africa's Task force on HIV/AIDS, 2001.

Audiovisual Materials[top]

  • African Literature Association Conference : Presentation of the Folon Nichols Award  by Niyi Osundare to Wole Soyinka , April 13,2000
  • Wole Soyinka. African Literature Association Conference , April 14,2000
  • Aminata Sow Fall. African Literature Association Conference,  April 14,2000
    • DerekWalcott. African Literature Association Conference, April 15,2000
  • Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, The African University.  Mid-America Alliance for African Studies Keynote Address, University of Kansas,  September 23-25,1999 , pt.1
  • Conclusion of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Wayne Nafziger, Overview of African Economies and Democracy, MAAAS, University of Kansas , September 23-25,1999
  • Crawford Young, An Overview of African Politics, MAAAS,  University of Kansas, September 23-25,1999
  • Michael Karlstrom, On Civil Society in Uganda, MAAAS,  University of Kansas,  September 23-25,1999
  • Media for Development Trust , “Everyone’s Child”
  • Sankofa , “My Journey Home” (2 copies)
  • Said , Edward , “On Orientalism.”
  • Schlessinger Media , “Ancient Civilizations for Children : Ancient Egypt”
  • Schlessinger Media , “Ancient Civilizations for Children : Ancient Africa”
  • Schlessinger Media , “Religions of the World : African and African-American Religions”
  • Sembene: The making of African Cinema
  • 100% Arabica
  • A door to the sky
  • Islam in Africa
  • Mosque
  • Freight
  • Islam Faith and People
  • Women in Islam
  • Three African shorts
  • Xala
  • Genese
  • Three tales from Senegal
  • Vie sur terre
  • Walk in the night
  • You Africa
  • Pieces d'identities
  • The media and democracy in the Arab world
  • Beyond borders
  • Women and Islam
  • Under one sky
  • PBS Africa Series
  • Cinema of Senegal
  • Touki Bouki
  • Konkombe: The Nigerian pop scene
  • Freight
  • Umm Kolthum
  • The women of Hezbollah
  • Saints & Spirits
  • Chronicle of the years of Ember
  • The Bonds of Pride
  • Arabs and the West
  • Islam and the West
  • Lumumba

CD-ROM[top]

  • In the shadow of the plague. AIDS in Zimbabwe .Produced by Beuchamin.
    Four 30-minute radio programmes on the consequences of the epidemic for the children as well as the story of one AIDS orphan , the socio-economic impact of the disease, and how the pandemic is changing the way Zimbabweans live.
  • Art and life in Africa. This is an interactive CD-ROM that recontextualizes African art in the life cycle of life. Using text, objects, field photos, video and music, the program explores the way Africans make and use art at important events throughout their lives to solve problems, overcome adversity, and meet the unique challenges of life in an African environment.