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• Adams, Monni. "Eighteenth-Century Kuba King Figures." African Arts (Los Angeles) 21, no. 3 (1988): pp. 32-38, 88.
• Adams, Monni. "Kuba Embroidered Cloth." African Arts 12, no. 1 (Nov. 1978): pp. 24-39+106-107.
• Alard, Mireille. "Coupes gravées chez les Bashilele du Kasaï Occidental." Arts d'Afrique noire 51 (Autumn 1984): pp. 11-21.
• Andersson, Efraïm. "Nkita: Une secte extatique ds Téké." Arts d'Afrique noire 27 (Autumn 1978): pp. 16-27.
• "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.
• Beurden, Sarah Van. "The Value of Culture: Congolese Art and the Promotion of Belgian Colonialism (1945–1959)." History and Anthropology 24, no. 4 (2013): pp. 472-492.
• 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 P. The Arts of Zaire. Volume II: Eastern Zaire. The Ritual and Artistic Context of Voluntary Associations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. "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.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. Lega Culture: Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. Lega: Ethics and Beauty in the Heart of Africa. Brussels: KBC Banking & Insurance; Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 2002.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. Symbolism of the Lega Stool. Working Papers in the Traditional Arts 2. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1977.
• Binkley, David A. “Masks, Space and Gender in Southern Kuba Initiation Ritual,” Iowa Studies in African Art (Iowa City) 3 (1990): pp. 157-176.
• Binkley, David A. and Patricia Darish. Kuba. Visions of Africa. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2009.
• 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. "La joueuse de tambour mbala de Jerome L. Joss: Les œuvres apparentées et leur signification/The Jerome L. Joss Mbala Drummer: Its Relatives and Meaning." Arts d'Afrique noire 65 (Spring 1988): pp. 13-25.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Kakungu among the Yaka and Suku."African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 42-46, 88.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. Yaka. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2014.
• Cameron, Elisabeth L. Art of the Lega. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
• Carter, P. L. "Hunter Gatherers: Past and Present." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 67-69.
• Ceyssens, R. "Woningbouw op de Boven-Kasayi." Africa-Tervuren 27, no. 3 (1981): pp. 71-88.
• Clarke, Christa. "A Personal Journey: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection. African Arts 34, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 16-35, 93.
• Cooksey, Susan, Robin Poyner, and Hein Vanhee, eds. Kongo Across the Waters. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013.
• Cornet, Joseph. "A propos des statues ndengese." Arts d'Afrique noire 17 (Spring 1976): pp. 6-16.
• Cornet, Joseph. "The Itul Celebration of the Kuba." African Arts 13, no. 3 (May 1980): pp. 28-33+92.
• Crenn, Julie. “Michèle Magéma: Without Echo, There Is No Meeting.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): pp. 15-20.
• Damme-Linseele, Annemieke Van. "Nkanu and Mbeko Art and Ritual." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 12-23, 90.
• Darish, Patricia. "Dressing for the Next Life: Raffia Textile Production and Use among the Kuba of Zaire," in Cloth and Human Experience edited by Annette B. Weiner and Jane Schneider, pp. 117-140. Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Insittution Press, 1989.
• de Sousberghe, L. "Cases Cheffales du Kwango." Congo-Tervuren 6, no. 1 (1960): pp. 10-16.
• Devisch, René. "Yaka Divination: Acting Out the Memory of Society's Life-Spring," in Divination and Healing: Potent Vision edited by Michael Winkelman and Philip M. Peek, pp. 243-264. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2004.
• Diwouta-Kotto, Danièle. Suites architecturales: Kinshasa, Douala, Dakar. Collection d'architectures d'Afrique. Besançon, France: Edition VAA, 2010.
• Fowler, Amy M. The Visual Rhetoric of Colonization: A Historiography of Representations of the Congo Free State. Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 2005.
• Fromont, Cécile. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
• Fromont, Cécile. "Getting to Know Early Modern Kongo Textiles." The Textile Museum Journal, 2022.
• Gardi, B. Zaire Masken Figuren. Basel: Museum für Volkerkunde und Schweizerische Museum für Volkskunde, 1986.
• Greani, Nora. "La Biennale d’Art Bantu Contemporain: passeport ethnique et circulations artistiques en Afrique sub-sahélienne." Artl@s Bulletin 5, no. 2 (Fall 2016): pp. 70-82.
• Hall, H. U. "A Baluba Chieftain's Staff." The Museum Journal (Philadelphia) 14, no. 3 (Sept. 1923): pp. 192-199.
• Hall, H. U. "Congo and West African Woodcarvings." The Museum Journal (Philadelphia) 14, no. 1 (March 1923): pp. 47-84.
• Hall, H. U. "Notes on Some Congo and West African Woodcarvings." The Museum Journal (Philadelphia) 14, no. 2 (June 1923): pp. 101-134.
• Hersak, Dunja. "Further Perspectives on Kifwebe Masquerades." African Arts 53, no. 1 (Spring 2020): pp. 6-23.
• 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.
• Jewsiewicki, Bogumil. "Peintres de cases, imagiers et savants populaires du Congo, 1900-1960: Un essai d'histoire de l'esthétique indigène." Cahiers d'études africaines 31, no. 123 (1991): pp. 307-326
• 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.
• Laffont, Elisabeth. "Des cordophones congolais: Survie des harpes de l'antique Egypte dans les cordophones zandé et mangbetu." Arts d'Afrique noire 6 (Summer 1973): pp. 16-23.
• Lagae, Johan and Kim De Raedt. "Building for 'l'Authenticité': Eugène Palumbo and the Architecture of Mobutu's Congo." JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 178-189.
• Le Lay, Maëline."Literary and Theatrical Circulations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi: From the Belgian Colonial Empire to the Africa of the Great Lakes." Artl@s Bulletin 5, no. 2 (Fall 2016): pp. 43-56.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "L'art tabwa: Les prémices de la nouvelle lune." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 58 (Summer 1986): pp. 27-29.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "La face des esprits: Les masques du bassin du Zäire." Arts d'Afrique noire 87 (Autumn 1993): pp. 15-18.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Luba au Musée Dapper." Arts d'Afrique noire 88 (Winter 1993): pp. 9-11.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Le Musée Barbier-Mueller à fait peau neuve." Arts d'Afrique noire 76 (Winter 1990): pp. 15-16.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Pygmées? Peintures sur écorce battue des Mbuti au Musée Dapper." Arts d'Afrique noire 79 (Autumn 1991): pp. 33-34.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Trompes anthropomorphes du bas-Congo." Arts d'Afrique noire 6 (Summer 1973): pp. 4-15.
• Lumbala, Kabasele. Symbolique bantu et symbolique chrétienne: Rencontre dans la liturgie. Kinshasa: Editions filles de St. Paul, 1990.
• MacGaffey, Wyatt and John M. Janzen. "Nkisi Figures of the Bakongo." African Arts 7, no. 3 (Spring 1974): pp. 87-89.
• Maquet, Emma and Jean Hiernaux. "Un site à poterie cannelée en République démocratique du Congo : Kawezi (Vallée de la Ruzizi)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 39, no. 2 (1969): pp. 159-172.
• Martinez Ruiz, Felix Barbaro. Kongo Machinery: Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign. Ph.D., Yale U., 2004.
• Mattelaer, Victor. "Mushenge: Village royal des Bakubas." Jeune Afrique 25 (1957): pp. 23-24.
• Maurer, Evan M. and Niangi Batulukisi. Spirits Embodied: Art of the Congo; Selections from the Helmut F. Stern Collection. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with University of Minnesota Press, 1998. [Reviewed online by Wyatt MacGaffey on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/53.]
• Meurant, Georges. "Le dessin des Mbuti de l'Ituri." Arts d'Afrique noire 78 (Summer 1991): pp. 15-22.
• Meurant, Georges and Robert Farris Thompson. Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
• 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.
• Périer, G.D. Les arts populaires du Congo belge. Collection nationale, 8th series, no. 90. Brussels: Office de publicité, 1948.
• Petit, Pierre. "Art et histoire des Luba méridionaux, Partie II: Ethnicité, histoire politique et ateliers sur les frontiéres sud du royaume." Anthropos 100, no. 1. (2005): pp. 17-33.
• Petridis, Constantijn. Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Brussels : Mercatorfonds, c2008.
• Petridis, Constantine. "Art et histoire des Luba méridionaux, Partie I: La collection du Père Peeraer à l'Université de Gand." Anthropos 100, no. 1 (2005): pp. 5-16.
• Petridis, Constantine. Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 5 Continents Editions, 2013.
• Philippart de Foy, Guy. Les Pygmées d’Afrique centrale. Collection Architectures traditionnelles 2, Roquevaire, France: Editions Parenthèses, 1984. [Review by Jean-Christophe Huet available online in Journal des Africanistes 54, no. 1 (1984): pp. 227-228.]
• 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. "Les arts du corps chez les Tabwa." Arts d'Afrique noire 59 (Autumn 1986): pp. 15-29.
• Roberts, Allen F. "Duality in Tabwa Art." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 26-35, 86.
• Roberts, Allen F. "'Perfect' Lions, 'Perfect' Leaders: A Metaphor for Tabwa Chiefship." Journal des africanistes 53, no. 53/1-2 (1983): pp. 93-105.
• Rosenwald, Jean B. "Kuba King Figures." African Arts 7, no. 3 (Spring 1974): pp. 26-31, 92.
• Shelton, Anthony. "The Chameleon Body: Power, Mutilation and Sexuality," in Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire edited by Anthony Shelton, pp. 10-51. London: Lund Humphries Publishers, 1995.
• Thompson, Robert Farris. Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas. New York: Museum for African Art; Munich: Prestel, 1993. [Reviewed by Judith Bettelheim in Art Journal 53, no. 2 (Summer 1994): pp. 99-103.]
• Thompson, Robert Farris. "Le grand n'konde de Detroit: Première partie." Arts d'Afrique noire 55 (Autumn 1985): pp. 34-43.
• Thompson, Robert Farris. "Le grand n'konde de Detroit: Second partie." Arts d'Afrique noire 56 (Winter 1985): pp. 17-26.
• Thompson, Robert Farris and Joseph Cornet. The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981.
• Thornton, John. "The Regalia of the Kingdom of Kongo, 1491-1895," in Kings of Africa: art and Authority in Central Africa edited by Erna Beumers and Hans-Joachim Koloss, pp. 56-63. Collection Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin. Maastricht: Foundation Kings of Africa, 1992.
• Turner, Edith. "Drumming, Divination, and Healing: The Community at Work," in Divination and Healing: Potent Vision edited by Michael Winkelman and Philip M. Peek, pp. 55-80. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2004.
• Utotombo: L’art d’Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges. Brussels: Société du Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1988.
• van de Maele, Jens and Johan Lagae. "'The Congo must have a presence on Belgian soil': The concept of representation in governmental discourses on the architecture of the Ministry of Colonies in Brussels, 1908–1960." The Journal of Architecture 22, no. 7 (Nov. 2017): pp. 1178-1201.
• 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.
• Vansina, Jan. "Een Negentiende-Eeuwse Stad in Centraal-Afrika: Nsheng." Africa-Tervuren 22, no. 2-3-4 (1976): pp. 47-56.
• 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): ????.]
• Vogel, Susan Mullin. "The Buli Master, and Other Hands." Art in America 68, no. 5 (May 1980): pp. 132-142.
• Volavkova, Zdenka. "Le Ndunga: Un masque, une danse, une institution sociale au Ngoyo." Arts d'Afrique noire 17 (Spring 1976): pp. 28-43.
• Volavkova, Zdenka. "Nkisi Figures of the Lower Congo." African Arts 5, no. 2 (Winter 1972): pp. 52-59, 84.
• Volavkova, Zdenka. "Once Again on the Kongo Nkisi Figures." African Arts 7, no. 3 (Spring 1974): pp. 89-90.
• Wannyn, Rob. L. L'art ancien du métal au bas-Congo. Collection Les vieilles civilisations ouest-africaines. Champles, Belgique, Editions du Vieux Planquesaule, 1961. [Review by Faublée, Jacques available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 33, no. 2 (1963): pp. 322-323.
• Washburn, Dorothy K.. Style, Classification and Ethnicity: Design Categories on Bakuba Raffia Cloth. Transactions of the American Philosphoical Society 80, part 3. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1990.
• Widman, Ragnar. "Le culte du 'niombo' des Bwendé." Arts d'Afrique noire 2 (1972): pp. 13-41.