A Collection African Studies Bibliographies and Archival Materials

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• Ago, Fabrizio. Moschee in Adobe: Storia e Tipologia Nell-Africa Occidentale. Rome: Kappa, 1982.
• Aradeon, Susan B. "The Enduring Plan of the Sahelian Mosque." Unpublished Paper for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Bloomington, IN, Oct. 21-24, 1981.
• Aronson, Lisa. "The Language of West African Textiles." African Arts (Los Angeles) 25, no. 3 (July 1992): pp. 36-40, 100.
• Betts, R.F. "Imperial Designs: French Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism edited by G.W. Johnson, pp. 191-207. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies 16. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
• Bourdier, Jean-Paul and Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Vernacular Architecture of West Africa: A World in Dwelling. Abingdon, England: Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2011.
• Buck, Tim. "Imagining Imperial Modernity in British Colonial West Africa: Gerald Spencer Pryse’s Work for the Empire Marketing Board." Art History 38, no. 5 (Nov. 2015): pp. 940-963.
• Camps, Gabriel. Les civilisations préhistoriques de l'Afrique du Nord et du Sahara. Paris: Doin, 1974. [Review by Guy de Beauchêne available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 44, no. 2 (1974): pp. 202-203.]
• Craddock, P.T. and J. Picton "Medieval Copper Production and West African Bronze Analyses." Archaeometry 28, no. 1 (1986): pp. 3-32.
• Crowley, Daniel J. "The West African Art Market Revisited." African Arts 7, no. 4 (Summer 1974): pp. 54-59.
• de Sabran, Marguerite. "La 'maison du pays': L'exposition du patrimoine dans les musées privés d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Cameroun." Cahiers d'études africaines 39, no. 155-156 (1991): pp. 885-903.
• Delange, Jacqueline. "L'art peul." Cahiers d'études africaines (Paris) 4, no. 13, c. 1 (1963): pp. 5-13.
• Delange, Jacqueline. "Les Peul," in Arts et peuples de l'Afrique noire: introduction à une analyse des créations plastiques, pp. 101-15. Bibliothèques des sciences humaines. Paris: Libraire Gallimard, 1967.
• Dieterlen, G., and Z. Ligers. "Notes sur les tambours-de-calebasse en Afrique occidentale." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 33, no. 2 (1963): pp. 255-274.
• Drew, Jane, Maxwell Fry, and Harry L. Ford. Village Housing in the Tropics, With Special Reference to West Africa London: L. Humphries, 1947. [Reviewed by Ola Uduku in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 265-266.]
• Epifano, Angie. "Commerce and Colonialism in the Regalia of the Samorian State." African Arts 53, no. 2 (Summer 2020): pp. 28-41.
• Frank, Barbara E. "Caste Versus Craft: Transformations in Identity and Artistry among the Mande-speaking Peoples of West Africa," in Redefining the 'Artisan': Traditional Technicians in Changing Societies: Papers from the First Conference on Artists, Artisans and Traditional Technologies in Development, April 14-16, 1989 edited by Paul Greenough with Jackie Hogan, pp. 169-188. Iowa City: Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa, 1992.
• Gabus, Jean. Au Sahara: arts et symboles. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Editions de la Baconnière, 1958.
• Gupta, D. Urbanization in Pre-Colonial West Africa. Africa Quarterly 22, no. 3 (n.d.): pp. 27-40.
• Hair, P. E. H., Adam Jones, and Robin Law, eds. Barbot on Guinea: the Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa. 2 vols. Works Issues by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no. 176. Longon: Hakluyt Society, 1992.
• Hamès, Constant. "Sura Headings and Subdivisions in Qur'an Manuscripts from Sub-Saharan Africa: Variations and Historical Implications." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 15, no. 3 (2013): pp. 232-252.
• Haselberger, Herta. "Le decor mural chez les noirs de l'ouest africain: Un art peu connu, étudieé dans le Soudan occidental et dans l'ouest et le centre des pays de Guinée." Africa-Tervuren 9, no. 3 (1963): pp. 57-61.
• Heusch, Luc de. "Le rayonnement de l'Egypte antique dans l'art et la mythologie de l'Afrique occidentale." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 28 (1958): pp. 91-109.
• History, Design, and Craft in West African Strip-Woven Cloth. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, 1992. [Reviewed by Elisha P. Renne, African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 30-1, 83, 88.
• Hitchins, Stephen. Fry, Drew, Knight, Creamer: Architecture. London: Lund Humphries, 1978. [Reviewed by Ola Uduku in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 265-266.]
• Hugot, Henri J. Le Sahara avant le désert. Collection Archéologie, horizons neufs. n.p.: Éditions des Hespérides, 1974. [Review by Guy de Beauchêne available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 44, no. 2 (1974): p. 210.]
• Imoagene, S.O. "Urbanism, Urbanization and Underdevelopment: The West African Experience," in Town Talk: The Dynamics of Urban Anthropology edited by G. Ansari and P.J.M. Nas, pp. 65-83. Leiden: Brill, 1983.
• Joleaud, Léonce. "La Mission Waterlot en Afrique Occidentale Française." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 5, no. 2 (1935): p. 261-262.
• Kennedy, Jean. "New Dynamics: The West African Coast," in New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, pp. 87-94. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
• Kriger, Colleen E. Cloth in West African History. African Archaeology Series. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006.
• Lamp, Frederick. African Art of the West Atlantic Coast: Transition in Form and Content. New York: L. Kahan Gallery, 1979. [Reviewed by Warren L. d'Azevedo in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 81-6.]
• Le Moal, G. "Les habitations semi-souterraines en Afrique de l'Ouest." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 30, no. 2 (1960): pp. 193-203.
• Leiris, Michel. "Mission de G. Walerlot en A.O.F.." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 8, no. 2 (1938): p. 208-209.
• Lhote, Henri. "Le peuplement du Sahara néolithique, d'après l'interprétation des gravures et des peintures rupestres." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 2 (1970): pp. 91-102.
• Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor. "Modernism in Late Imperial British West Africa: The Work of Maxwell Frdy and Jane Drew, 1946-1956." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (Chicago) 65, no. 2 (June 2006): pp. 188-215.
• Malt, Carol Hotchkiss. “Influence of Islam on West African Art.” Arts & the Islamic World 1, no. 1 (Winter 1982-1983): pp. 45-48.
• Martinelli, Bruno. "Agriculteurs métallurgistes et forgerons en Afrique Soudano-Sahélienne." Etudes Rurales (Paris) 125-126 (Jan-June 1992): pp. 25-41, 197, 199-200.
• Miège, Jacques. "Couleurs, teintures et plantes tinctoriales en Afrique occidentale." Bulletin du Centre Genevoise d'Antropologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 115-131.
• Nomades. Quebec: Musée de la Civilisation, 1992.
• Okpoko, A. Ikechukwu. "Problems of Archaeological Heritage Management in West Africa." Ikoro: Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies (Nsukka) 7, no. 1-2 (June 1992): pp. 68-76.
• Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo and Victoria Ellen Smith. "Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's Forts and Castles," in Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications edited by John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and Victoria Ellen Smith, 1-31. African Histories and Modernities. New York: Springer International, 2018.
• Pellow, Deborah. "The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa," in The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture, edited by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga, pp. 160-184. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
• Pfaff, F. "Cinema in Francophone West Africa." Africa Quarterly 22, no. 3 (n.d.): pp. 41-8.
• Prasse, Karl G. The Tuareg: The Blue People. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995. [Reviewed online by Kristyne Loughran on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5673875290498.]
• Prussin, Labelle. "Contribution à l'étude du cadre historique de la technologie de la construction dans l'ouest africain." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 2 (1970): pp. 175-179.
• Prussin, Labelle.  “David in West Africa: No More Forever?”  Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005): pp. 88-109.
• Prussin, Labelle.  “Judaic Threads in the West African Tapestry:  No More Forever?”  Art Bulletin 88, no. 2 (June 2006): 328-353.
• Prussin, Labelle. "The Impact of Islam on Architecture in West Africa." Unpublished Paper for the Tenth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York, NY, Nov. 1-4, 1967.
• Renne, E.P. "The Thierry Collection of Hausa Artifacts at the Field Museum." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 54-8, 88.
• Rivallain, Josette. "Le quatrième colloque de l'association ouest africaine d'archéologie." Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 54, no. 1 (1984): pp. 213-214.
• Roberts, Richard. "Guinée Cloth: Linked Transformations within France's Empire in the Nineteenth Century." Cahiers d'études africaines 32, no. 128 (1992): pp. 597-627.
• Roberts, Richard. Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional Economy in the French Soudan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• Rosen, Mary Sue and Paul Peter Rosen. Masks from West and Central Africa: A Celebration of Color and Form. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2013.
• Savary, Claude. "Rites des prémices d'igname en Afrique de l'Ouest." Bulletin du Centre Genevoise d'Anthropologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 133-145.
• Schacht, Joseph. "Sur la diffusion des formes d'architecture religieuse musulmane à travers le Sahara." Travaux de l'Institut de Recherche Sahariennes 11, no. 1 (1954): pp. 11-27.
• Seydou, C. "Note sur le «mot-date» (Procédé mnémotechnique et littéraire utilisé par les écrivains peul et haoussa)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 38, no. 1 (1968): pp. 15-18.
• Silva Horta, José da, Carlos Almeida, and Peter Mark. African Ivories in the Atlantic World, 1400-1900/Marfins Africanos No Mundo Atlântico, 1400-1900. Lisbon: Centro de História, Universidad de Lisboa, 2021.
• Stevens, Phyllis Ferguson. Aspects of Muslim Architecture in the Dyula Region of the Western Sudan. Legon: University of Ghana, 1968.
• "Symposium-exposition «islamic arts and architectures in west africa»." Journal des africanistes 49, no. 1 (1979): pp. 167-168.
• Tastevin, R. P. "Mission Waterlot en A. O. F." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 6, no. 2 (1936): pp. 233-234.
• Thomas, Benjamin E. "The Location and Nature of West African Cities," in Urbanization and Migration in West Africa edited by Hilda Kuper, pp. ????. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.
• Tuma be: Alltagskultur der westafrikanischen Savanne. Tubingen: E. Wasmuth, 1992.
• Willett, Frank and Edward V. Sayre. "Lead Isotopes in West African Copper Alloys." Journal of African Archaeology 4, no. 1 (2006): pp. 55-90.
• Zeltner, Fr. de. "La bijouterie indigène en Afrique occidentale." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 1, no. 1 (1931): pp. 43-48.
• Zeltner, Fr. de. "Les boîtes en cuir moulé du Soudan." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 2, no. 1 (1932): pp. 23-34.