Some Favorite Readings on Africa
Fiction
Ba, Mariama. (1989) So Long A Letter. Heinemann.
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. (1988) Nervous Conditions. Seal Press.
Kingslover, Barbara. (1999) The Poisonwood Bible. Harper.
Smith, Alexander Mccall. (2005) The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Pantheon.
Non-Fiction
Allman, Jean and Victoria Tashjian. (2000) "I Will Not Eat Stone": A Women's History of Colonial Asante. Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Amadiume, Ifi. 1995 [1987] Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. London: Zed Books.
Askew, Kelly. (2002) Performing the Nation : Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. Chicago: U. of Chicago.
Beidelman, T. O. (1997) The Cool Knife: Imagery of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Bloch, Marianne, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, and B. Robert Tabacchnick, eds. (1998) Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Clark, Gracia. (1994) Onions Are My Husband. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Dettwyler, Katherine. (1994) Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc.
Linde, Paul R. (2002) Of Spirits and Madnes: An American Psychiatrist in Africa. NY:McGraw-Hill.
Martin, Phyllis M. and Patrick O'Meara. (1995) Africa 3rd edition. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press.
Shostak, Marjorie. (1981) Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press.
Stambach, Amy. (2000) Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa. NY: Routledge..