Democratic Republic of Congo

Adams, Monni. "Eighteenth-Century Kuba King Figures." African Arts (Los Angeles) 21, no. 3 (1988): pp. 32-38, 88.

"Art and Initiation in Zaïre." Iowa Studies in African Art (Iowa City) 3 (1990): pp. 3-6. [Reviewed by Monni Adams in Tribus (Stuttgart) 40 (Dec. 1991): pp. 227-228.]

Art pictural des pygmées. Introduction by Werner Schmalenback, preface by Jean-Paul Barbier. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1990. [Reviewed by Eric Lehuard and Raoul Lehuard in Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 77 (Spring 1991): p. 60.]

Bassani, Ezio. "Il maestro del Warua." Quaderni Poro (Milan) 6 (1990): pp. 9-29.

Bassani, Ezio. "The Warua Master." Quaderni Poro (Milan) 6 (1990): pp. 101-119.

Beltrán, Luis. "Le escritura de un pueblo ágrafo negroafricano: la mutanga de los BaLega." Estudios africanos (Madrid) 4, no. 7 (July-Dec. 1989): pp. 21-30.

Biaya, Tshikala K. "Le peinture populaire comme mode d'action politique des classes dominées au Zaïre, 1960-1989.” Contemporary French Civilization, special issue Afrique et Antilles francophones edited by Claude Bouygues (Bozeman, MT) 14, 2 (1990): pp. 334-351.

Biebuyck, Daniel. The Arts of Zaire. Volume II: Eastern Zaire. The Ritual and Artistic Context of Voluntary Associations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Biebuyck, Daniel. "The Kindi Aristocrats and Their Art among the Lega," in African Art and Leadership edited by Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole, pp. 7-20. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.

Binkley, David A. “Masks, Space and Gender in Southern Kuba Initiation Ritual,” Iowa Studies in African Art (Iowa City) 3 (1990): pp. 157-176.

Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492." Art Bulletin (New York) 75, no. 3 (September 1993): pp. 375-96.

Bonew, Alexis. “Tête gravide, vase capital, ventre à musique...: La clé dans un mortier; un point d’analyse componentielle à propos d’un monument de l’art luluwa,” in De l’art nègre à l’art africain: l’évolution de la connaissance de l’art africain des années trente à aujourd’hui, pp. 122-126. Arnouville: Collection Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1990.

Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Helmut-shaped Masks from the Kwango-Kwilu Region and Beyond.” Iowa Studies in African Art (Iowa City) 3 (1990): pp. 121-136.

Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Initiation und Inthronisation bei den Yaka in Zaïre," in Männer Bande, Männer Bünde: zur Rolle des Mannes in Kulturvergleich, vol. 1, edited by Gisela Völger and Karin v. Welck, pp. 301-308. Cologne: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1990.

Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Kakungu among the Yaka and Suku."African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 42-46, 88.

Cameron, Elisabeth L. Art of the Lega. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Clarke, Christa. "A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection. African Arts 34, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 16-35, 93.

Damme-Linseele, Annemieke Van. "Nkanu and Mbeko Art and Ritual." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 12-23, 90.

Fowler, Amy M. The Visual Rhetoric of Colonization: A Historiography of Representations of the Congo Free State. Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 2005.

Gardi, B. Zaire Masken Figuren. Basel: Museum für Volkerkunde und Schweizerische Museum für Volkskunde, 1986.

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.

Huckstep, Joan Elayne. Embodied Nationalism 'Animation Politique' (Political Dance) in Zaire: A Case Study of Dance as the Spirit of Individual, Community, and National Identity. Ed.D., Temple U., 2005.

Ivory: An International History and Illustrated Survey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1987): pp. 170-99.

Kelley, Harper and R. L. Doize. "Les collections africaines du déparlement de préhistoire exotique du Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro, II. Nouvelles recherches préhistoriques au Congo." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 4, no. 2 (1934): pp. 303-312.

Kita, K.M. "La technique traditionelle de la métallurgie du fer chez les Balega de Pangi (Zaire)." Muntu 3 (1985): pp. 85-99.

Martinez Ruiz, Felix Barbaro. Kongo Machinery: Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign. Ph.D., Yale U., 2004.

Moyer, Eileen. "A Review of Congo in Cartoons: 102 Paintings by Tshibumba (Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Tropenmuseum, May 14 - October 3, 2004)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 81-82.

N'Gindu, L. "L'art africain à travers certaines réalités sociales: l'exemple des Kongo du Zaire." Mois en Afrique 22, no. 249-250 (1986): pp. 105-18.

Pype, Katrien. "Dancing for God or the Devil: Pentecostal Discourse on Popular Dance in Kinshasa." Journal of Religion in Africa (Leiden) 36, no. 3-4 (2006): pp. 296-318.

Roberts, Allen F. "Duality in Tabwa Art." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 26-35, 86.

Vansina, Jan. "Ndop: Royal Statues among the Kuba," in African Art and Leadership edited by Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole, pp. 41-56. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.

Vellut, Jean-Luc, ed. La mémoire du Congo: le temps colonial. Tervuren: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale; Gand: Editions Snoeck, 2005. [Reviewed by Pedro Monaville in Cahiers d'études africaines (Paris) 185 (2007): ????.]

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