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• Actes du premier Colloque international d’archéologie africaine, Fort-Lamy (République du Tchad) 11-16 décembre 1966. Etudes et documents tchadiens, Mémoires 1. Fort Lamy: Institut national tchadien pour les sciences humaines, 1969. [Review by G. Beauchêne available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 2 (1970): pp. 181-182.
• Adahl, Karin. "The Islamic Architecture and Art in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Problem of Identity," in Islamic Art and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Karin Adahl and Berit Sahlström. Figura Nova Series 27. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1995: pp. 131-143.
• Adahl, Karin and Berit Sahlström. Islamic Art and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Figura Nova Series 27. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1995
• Adams, Monni. "African Visual Arts from an Art Historical Perspective." African Studies Review 32, no. 2 (Sept. 1989): pp. 55-103. [Reviewed by Mary Jo Arnoldi in African Arts Magazine 24, no. 2 (April 1991): pp. 24-31.]
• Adams, Monni. "Interpretations of Masking in Black African Ritual." Africa-Tervuren (Muséd Royal de l'Afrique Centrale) (Tervuren) 27, no. 2 (1981): pp. 46-51.
• Adande, Joseph C. E. "L'art africain et l'imaginaire des autres entre le XV1e et le début du X Xe siècle. Essai d'analyse diachronique des prémisses d'un processus de «globalisation»." Afrika Zamani: an annual journal of African history (Dakar) 9-10 (2001-2002): pp. 60-76.
• Adjaye, David. Adjaye. Africa. Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture. London : Thames & Hudson, 2011. [Reviewed by Shantel Blakely in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 259-260.]
• Adjaye, David and Peter Allison. African metropolitan architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 2011.
• African Art Now - Urban Culture from Africa. Tokyo: the Africa Society of Japan, 1993.
• African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
• Africas: The Artist and the City: A Journey and an Exhibition. Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, 2001.
• Africus: Johannesburg Biennale. Johannesburg: Transitional Metropolitan Council, 1995.
• Afrikanische Skulpture: die Erfindung der Figur/African Sculpture: The Invention of the Figure. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1990. [Reviewed in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 76 (Winter 1990): pp. 65, 67; exhibition reviewed by Raoul Lehuard in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 76 (Winter 1990): pp. 11-12; reviewed by M. Vajman in Primitifs: art tribal, art moderne (Paris) 1 (Nov.-Dec. 1990): p. 6.]
• Agnew, Neville and Janet Bridgland, eds. Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust, 2006.
• Akinsete, Ebun, Fabienne Hoelzel, and Lookman Oshodi. "Delivering Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Emerging Nations: Introducing Neighborhood Hotspots." JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 238-245.
• Alberich, Julio Cola. "Números simbólicos y rituales en el Africa subsahariana," in Homenagem a J. R. do Santos Júnior edited by Conceição Rodrigues, pp. 99-104. Vol. 1. Lisbon: Ministério do Planeamento de da Administração de Território, Secretaria de Estado da Ciencia et Tecnologia, Instituto de Investigação Cientifica Tropical, 1990.
• Amselle, Jean-Loup. L'art de la friche: Essai sur l'art africain contemporain. Paris: Flammarion, 2005. [Reviewed by Tobias Wendl in Cahiers d'études africaines (Paris) 181 (2006): pp. ????.]
• Anderson, Martha G. and Christine Mullen Kreamer. Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness. New York: Center for African Art, 1989. [Reviewed by Philip Peek in American Ethnologist (Washington, DC) 18 (Nov. 1991): pp. 815-816.
• Arnaut, Karel. "Art and the African World: A Historical Analysis of Their Interconnection." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 22, no. 2 (1991): pp. 151-165.
• Arnoldi, Mary Jo, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Michael Atwood Mason. "Reflections on ‘African Voices' at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History." African Arts 34, no. 2 (Summer 2001): pp. 16-35, 94.
• Aronson, Lisa. "Women in the Arts," in African Women South of the Sahara edited by Margaret Jean Hay and Sharon Stichter, pp. 119-138. London: Longman, 1984.
• Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropological Collections. New Yorok: Center for African Art; Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1988. [Reviewed by Monni Adams, "Some Recent Publications of the Center for African Art, New York." Tribus (Stuttgart) 41 (1992): pp. 217-220.]
• Arts of Africa from the Hegarty Collection: An Exhibition at the Art Gallery, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A., February 18 - March 15, 1990. Des Moines, IA: George Hegarty, 1990.
• Asante, K.W. "Commonalities in African Dance: An Aesthetic Foundation," in African Culture: The Rhythms of Unity edited by M.K. Asante and K.W. Asante, pp. 71-82. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985.
• Avorgbedor, Daniel K., ed. The Interrelatedness of Music, Religion, and Ritual in African Performance Practice. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2003.
• Baerlecken, Daniel, et. al. "Rematerializations: Prototypical Exploration of Neovernacular Structures in South Africa." JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 246-254.
• Balogun, Ola. "Keys to the Spirit World: African Masks." UNESCO courier (Paris) (Dec. 1990): pp. 26-27.
• Bassani, Ezio and William Fagg. Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory. New York: Center for African Art, 1988. [Reviewed by Monni Adams, "Some Recent Publications of the Center for African Art, New York." Tribus (Stuttgart) 41 (1992): pp. 217-220.]
• Bayakissa, Jean-Claude. "L'imaginaire du masque africain." Cahiers congolais de l'imaginaire (Brazzaville) 1 (Jan. 1988): pp. 4-11.
• Birley, Margaret. "Musical Instruments: An Exhibition at the Balfour Building, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 64-67.
• Blair, Thomas L. "Shelter in Urbanising and Industrialising Africa," in Shelter in Africa edited by Paul Oliver, pp. 226-239. New York: Praeger, 1971.
• Blier, Suzanne Preston, ed. Art of the Senses: African Masterpieces from the Teel Collection. Boston: MFA Publications, 2004. [Reviewed online by Barbara Plankensteiner on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=121281128104627.]
• Borgatti, Jean M. "African Portraiture: A Commentary." African Arts (Los Angeles) 23, no. 4 (Oct. 1990): pp. 38-41.
• Borgatti, Jean M. Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and Beyond. New York: Center for African Art, 1990. [Reviewed by Monni Adams in Tribus (Stuttgart) 41 (1992): pp. 217-220. By Judith Bettelheim in Art Journal (New York) 49, no. 3 (1990): pp. 310-312. Exhibition reviewed by Mary Jo Arnoldi in African Arts (Los Angeles) 23, no. 4 (Oct. 1990): pp. 81-82.]
• Borgatti, Jean M. "Portraiture in Africa." African Arts (Los Angeles) 23, no. 3 (July 1990): pp. 34-39, 101.
• Bosland, Joost. "The Africa Paradox," in Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art edited by Courtney J. Martin, pp. 303-309. New York: Gregory R. Miller, 2016.
• Bossert, Helmuth Theodor. Folk Art of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
• Brain, Robert. Art and Society in Africa. London: Longman, 1980.
• Brennan, E.M. and H.W. Richardson. "Urbanization and Urban Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa." African Urban Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1986): pp. 20-42.
• Breuil, Henri. "Envoi du Professeur Abbé H. Breuil, Président du IIe Congrès Panafricain de Préhistoire." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 27, no. 1 (1957): pp. 7-17.
• Brielmaier, Isolde and Ed Marquand. Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948-1953. [Reviewed by Allen F. Roberts in African Arts 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 87-89, 92.]
• Brigaglia, Andrea and Mauro Nobili, eds. The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 12. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. [Reviewed by Paul E. Lovejoy in Research Africa Reviews 2, no. 3 (December 2018): pp. 40-42.]
• Burns, James. "The African Bioscope: Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Cameron, Elisabeth L. Isn't S/he a Doll? Play and Ritual in African Sculpture. Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California, 1996.
• Cheetham, Linda. "Making Light Work." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 60-63.
• Childs, S. Terry, ed. Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Chrétien, J.-P. "Regards africaine au cinéma." Esprit: Vues d'Afrique (Paris) 8-9 (Aug.-Sept. 2005): pp. ????.
• Christian Imagery in African Art: The Britt Family Collection. Notre Dame, IN: The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1980.
• Coombes, Annie E. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. [Reviewed online by K. Scott Rodolitz on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3552871057080.]
• Coquery, M. "La notion de ‘mode de composition urbaine': un outil opération en urbanisme. Le cas de l'Afrique noire, Pt. 2," in Villes et problèmes urbains contemporains en Afrique noire. Recherches en histoire contemporaine. Informations diverses. Activités du Groupe de Recherches ‘Afrique Noire' du L.A. 363, ‘Tiers-Monde, Afrique: les sociétés dans leur histoire et leur environnement' (secteur Paris VII), pp. 71-80. Groupe ‘Afrique Noire' 7. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1984.
• "Le colloque international d'archéologie africaine de Fort-Lamy (Tchad)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 36, no. 2 (1966): pp. 338-339.
• Corbin, George A. Native Arts of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific: An Introduction. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. [Reviewed by John Clegg in Oceania (Sydney) 61, no. 2 (Dec. 1990): p. 194.]
• Couraud, C. and M.-L. Inizan. "Couleur et technique: préhistoire - ethnologie." Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 105-107.
• Les cultures africaines sont-elles à vendre?: richesses artistiques et développement économique. Africultures. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007.
• Curnow, Kathy. At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. Cleveland, OH: The Galleries at Cleveland State University, 2014.
• Curnow, Kathy. The Bright Continent: African Art History. Cleveland, OH: Michael Schwartz Library OER Program, 2021.
• Dagan, Esther A. Emotions in Motion: Theatrical Puppets and Masks from Black Africa/La magie de l'imaginaire: marionnettes et masques thêatraux d'Afrique Noire. Montréal: Galerie Amrad African Arts, 1990. [Reviewed by Robert T. Soppelsa in African Studies Review (Atlanta) 35, no. 3 (Dec. 1992): pp. 121-123.]
• Damme, Wilfried van. "Some Notes on Defining Aesthetics in the Anthropological Literature." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 22, no. 2 (1991): pp. 167-181.
• De l'art nègre à l'art africain: l'évolution de la connaissance de l'art africain des années trente à aujourd'hui. 1er Colloque Européen sur les arts d'Afrique noire. Arnouville: Collection arts d'Afrique noire, 1990. [Reviewed by Claude Savary in "Chronique des musées." Genève-Afrique (Geneva) 30, no. 1 (1992): pp. 109-113. in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 74 (Summer 1990): p. 60.]
• De terre, de paille et de bois: Symbolique de l'architecture en Afrique noire: Exposition temporaire du 11 février au 6 septembre 1998, Musée de l'homme, Paris. Collections du Musée de l'homme. Paris: Musée national d'histoire naturelle, 1998.
• Delange, Jacqueline. The Art and Peoples of Black Africa. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1974.
• Demissie, Fassil. Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories. Design and the built environment series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. [Reviewed by Darby Morris in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): 260-261.]
• Denyer, Susan. African Traditional Architecture. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1978.
• Devisse, Jean, et. al. L'Archéologie en Afrique. Special issue of Recherche pédagogie et culture 9, no. 55 (Sept.-Dec. 1981). [Review by Raymond Mauny available online in Journal des africanistes 51, no. 1-2 (1981): pp. 323-324.]
• Domino, Christophe and André Magnin. L'art africain contemporain. Tableaux choisis. Paris, Éditions Scala, 2005. [Reviewed by Cédric Vincent in Cahiers d'études africaines (Paris) 185 (2007): ????.]
• Drost, Dietrich.  Töpferei in Afrika: Oekonomie und Soziologie.  Jahrbuch des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig.  Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1968.
• Drost, Dietrich.  Töpferei in Afrika: Technologie.  Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig 15.  Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1967.
• Echard, Nicole, ed. Métallurgies africaines: nouvelles contributions. Mémoires de la Société des africanistes 9. Paris: Société des africanistes, 1983. [Review by Raymond Mauny available online in Journal des Africanistes 53, no. 53/1-2 (1983): pp. 219-220.]
• Edwards, Elizabeth and Linda Cheetham. "On Top of the World: A New Exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 17, no. 1 (1986): pp. 46-49.
• Einstein, Carl. La sculpture africaine. Trad. Thérèse and Raymond Burgard. Documents d'art. Paris: Les éditions de G. Crès, 1922.
• El Shakhs, S. and H. Amirahmadi. "Urbanization and Spatial Development in Africa: Some Critical Issues." African Urban Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1986): pp. 3-19.
• Elleh, Nnamdi. "'Flows' into the Public Squares/Spheres in 'African Cities.'" JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 233-236.
• Engelbrecht, Beate and Bernhard Gardi, ed. Man Does Not Go Naked: Textilien und Handwerk aus afrikanischen und anderen Ländern. Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie 30. Basel: Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität und Museum für Völkerkunde, 1989.
• Falola, Toyin and Nana Akua Amponsah. "Women and the Arts and Literature," in Women's Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 123-151. Women's Roles Through History. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2012.
• Falola, Toyin and Steven J. Salm, eds. Urbanization and African Cultures. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. [Reviewed by Anne Lewinson in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 138-140.]
• Firstenberg, Lauri Michelle. Against the Archive: Toward Indeterminacy and the Internationalization of Contemporary Art. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005.
• Folkers, Antoni. Modern Architecture in Africa. Amsterdam: Sun Architecture, 2010. [Review by Michelle Apotsos in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 256-257.]
• Fraser, Douglas and Herbert M. Cole, eds. African Art and Leadership. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.
• Frey, Pierre and Patrick Bouchain. Learning from Vernacular: Towards a New Vernacular Architecture. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 2014.
• Fry, E. Maxwell. "Architecture and Planning in the Tropics." Optima 19, no. 1 (March 1969): pp. 52-60.
• Ghent, Gregory. The African Mask as Sculpture: September 10-October 5, 1990, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico. Chico, CA: University Art Gallery, 1990.
• Ghosn, Rania. "Energy Regions: Production Without Representation?" JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 224-228.
• Gibbs, James, ed. African Theatre 11: Festivals. Oxford: James Currey, 2012. [Reviewed by David Kerr in Africa 83, no. 4 (Nov. 2013): pp. 696-697.]
• Gillon, Werner. Collecting African Art. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, in association with Christie's, 1980. [Reviewed by Arnold Rubin in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 79-80.]
• Girschick Ben-Amos, Paula. "African Visual Arts from a Social Perspective." African Studies Review 32, no. 2 (Sept. 1989): pp. ????. [Reviewed by Mary Jo Arnoldi in African Arts Magazine 24, no. 2 (April 1991): pp. 24-31.
• Givanni, June, ed. Symbolic Narratives/African Film: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image. London: British Film Institute, 2001.
• Glück, Julius F. "Afrikanische Architeckur." Tribus 6 (1956): pp. 65-82.
• Goerg, Odile. "Domination coloniale, construction de 'la ville' en Afrique et nomination." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Goerg, Odile. "Introduction." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Goldwater, Robert. Primitivism in Modern Art. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1986. [Reviewed by Jeremy Coote, review available online in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 20, no. 2 (1989): pp. 181-182.]
• Grunne, Bernard de, ed. Mains de maîtres: à la découvertes des sculpteurs d’Afrique/Masterhands: Afrikaanse beeldhouwers in de kijker. Brussels: Espace Culturel BBL, 2001.
• Gwembe, Ezequiel Pedro. A arte negro-africana: uma antropologia religiosa. Colecção Inculturação 1. Maputo: E. P. Africa, 1989.
• Hackett, Rosalind I. J. "African Art as Interface for Religious Change," in Religions in Contact: Selected Proceedings of the Special IAHR Conference Held in Brno, August 23-26, 1994 edited by Iva Dolezalova, pp. 97-109. Brno: Czeck Society for the Study of Religions, 1996.
• Hackett, Rosalind I. J. Art and Religion in Africa. London: Cassell, 1996.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. "ASR Forum: What's New in African Cinema?: Introduction." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 5-11.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. "Manthia Diawara's Waves and the Problem of the 'Authentic'." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 13-30.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. Trash: African Cinema from Below. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. [Reviewed by Valérie K. Orlando in African Studies Review 57, no. 1 (April 2014): pp. 222-224.]
• Hartzler, Eva Coates. Missions and African Art: A Study of African Arts and Crafts and Their Use in Mission Work. MA Thesis, Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1945.
• Hassan, Salah M. Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997.
• Hata, Nobuyuki and Kenji Yoshida. Sekido Afurika no Kamen. Suita-shi: Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan, Hesei 2, 1990.
• Hellmich, Christina, Manuel Jordán, and Robert A. Kato. Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture. New York: Delmonico Books; Prestel, 2015.
• Herold, Erich. African Art. London: Hamlyn, 1990.
• Herold, Erich. Afrikanishe Skulptur: Stilformen und Tradition. Hanau: Verlaf Werner Dausien, 1989.
• Herold, Erich. Rites et coutumes dans l'art africain. Paris: Aurore éditions d'art, 1989.
• Higgins, MaryEllen. "The Winds of African Cinema." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 77-92.
• Hugot, H. J. L'Afrique préhistorique. Hatier université Afrique. Paris: Hatier, 1970. [Review by F. Treinen available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 2 (1970): pp. 188-189.]
• Hunt, C. "African Art at the University of Aberdeen." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 48-51.
• Ilboudo, P. "Etude à propos du Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou." Peuples Noirs - Peuples Africains 8, no. 44 (1985): pp. 39-51.
• Insoll, Timothy. The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge world Archaeology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Jeffries, R. "The Image of Woman in African Cave Art," in Black Women in Antiquity edited by I. Van Sertima, pp. 98-122. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1984.
• Jewsiewicki, Bogumil,ed. Art et politiques en Afrique noire/Art and Politics in Black Africa. Ottawa: Association canadienne des études africaines/Canadian Association of African Studies, 1989. [Reviewed by Mary Jo Arnoldi in Canadian Journal of African Studies (Ottawa) 25, no. 3 (1991): pp. 505-507.]
• Jules-Rosette, Bennetta. The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective. Topics in Contemporary Semiotics. New York: Plenum Press, 1984. [Reviewed by Jeremy Coote, review available in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 20, no. 2 (1989): pp. 182-183.
• Kahan, Leonard, Donna Page, and Pascal James Imperato, eds. Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. [Reviewed online by Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba on H-Net; Kristine Juncker on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA.]
• Kamalu, Chukwunyere. Foundations of African Thought: A Worldview Grounded in the African Heritage of Religion, Philosophy, Science, and Art. London: Karnak House, 1990.
• Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield. Contemporary African Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. [Reviewed online by Dele Jegede on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/201.]
• Kecskesi, Maria. "African Art at the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich." African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): 32-41.
• Kerchache, Jacques, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan. L'art africain. Paris: Mazenod, 1988. [Reviewed by G. Dupré, "L'art africain: une marchandise dissimulé." Gradhiva (Paris) 8 (1990): pp. 100-103.]
• Konaté, Y. "Africains sur le marché mondial de l'art." Esprit: Vues d'Afrique (Paris) 8-9 (Aug.-Sept. 2005): pp. ????.
• Kramer, Fritz W. The Red Fez: Art and Spirit Possession in Africa. London: Verso, 1993.
• Kramer, Fritz W. Der rote Fes: Über die Besessenheit und Kunst in Afrika. Frankfurt: Athenäum, 1987. [Reviewed by Piotr O. Scholz in Nubica (Cologne) 1-2 (1986-1987): pp. 402-403.]
• Kusimba, Chapurukha M. "Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa." Visual Anthropology 17, no. 2 (2004): pp. 197-198.
• LaGamma, Alisa. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1999. [Reviewed online by Mary Nooter Roberts on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/459.]
• LaGamma, Alisa. Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
• Lain, Luciana and Francesco Calloni. Tam tam. Gorle: Editrice Velar; Cammino, Missioni Cappuccini, 1990.
• Lamp, Frederick John, Amanda M. Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan. Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review 55, no. 3 (Dec. 2012): pp. 198-199.]
• Layton, Robert, ed. Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology. One World Archaeology 5. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. [Reviewed by Andrée Rosenfeld, review available online in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21, no. 1 (1990): pp. 83-84.
• Le Quellec, Jean-Loïc. Maisons du Sahara: habiter le désert. Paris: Hazan, 2006.
• le Roux, Hannah. "Design for the Missing Middle: Architecture in a Context of Inequality." JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 160-161.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Questions d'esthétique en Afrique noire." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 74 (Summer 1990): pp. 51-55.
• Leiris, Michel. "L'activité du département d'Afrique du Musée d'ethnographie en 1934." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 4, no. 2 (1934): pp. 325-326.
• Leiris, Michel and Jacqueline Delange. Afrique noire: la création plastique. L'univers des formes 11. Paris: Gallimard, 1967.
• Leiris, Michel. "Au département d'Afrique noire du Musée de l'Homme.." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 8, no. 2 (1938): p. 210-211.
• Lester, P. "Les expositions de collections africaines du Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 3, no. 2 (1933): pp. 350-351.
• Low, Iain. "Educating Architects in Africa." JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 162-164.
• Mabogunje, A.L. "Backwash Urbanization: The Peasantization of Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa," World Patterns of Modern Urban Change: Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris edited by M.P. Conzen, pp. 255-72. Research Paper 217-218. Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography, 1986.
• MacGaffey, Wyatt. "Art and Spirituality," in African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions edited by Jacob K. Olupona, pp. 223-256. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2000.
• Mack, John, ed. Africa: Arts and Cultures. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Magee, Carol Lynn. Re-Presenting Africa? American Displays of African Visual Culture in the 1990s. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001.
• Magnin, André and Jacques Soulillou, eds. Contemporary Art of Africa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. [Reviewed online by Dele Jegede on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23969875569366.]
• Maquet, J. "Fonctions et significations des arts négro-africains." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 36, no. 2 (1966): pp. 333-337.
• Marguerat, Yves. "Réflexions cursives sur l'évolution des réseaux urbains en Afrique Noire." Cahiers de l'ORSTOM Sciences humaines 15, no. 2 (1978): pp. 173-185.
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