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Ceramics and Terracotta Sculpture

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• Adepegba, C.O. "The Essence and Art of Yoruba Sanctuary Pottery." Orita 16, no. 2 (1984): pp. 71-86.
• Ancient Treasures in Terra Cotta of Mali and Ghana. New York: The African-American Institute, 1981.
• Anquandah, James. "Art du Komaland." Arts d'Afrique noire 62 (Summer 1987): pp. 11-18.
• Argenti, Nicolas. Is This How I Looked When I First Got Here: Pottery and Practice in the Cameroon Grassfields. London: British Museum, 1999.
• Bacot, Seÿna. "Un calendrier liturgique d'Edfou sur ostracon (O. EdfouCopte 1)," in Etudes coptes X Douzième journée d'études (Lyon, 19021 mai 2005) edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, pp. 91-102. Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 16. Paris: De Boccard, 2008.
• Balfet, H.  “Ethnographical Observations in North Africa and Archaeological Interpretation: The Pottery of the Maghrib,” in Ceramics and Man edited by Frederick R. Matson, pp. 161-177.  Viking Fund Publications in Antrhopology 41.  New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1965.
• Barley, Nigel. "Designing Women, Cameroon," in Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and Power: Case Studies in African Gender edited by Flora S. Kaplan, pp. 371-380. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.
• Barley, Nigel. "Placing the West African Potter," in Earthenware in Asia and Africa: A Colloquium held 21-23 June 1982 edited by John Picton, p. 93-105. London: University of Lond, Percival David Foundation for Chinese Art, 1984.
• Barreteau, Daniel, and Michèle Delneuf. "La céramique traditionnelle giziga et mofu (Nord-Cameroun): Etude comparée des techniques, des formes et du vocabulaire," in Relations interethniques et culture materielle dans le bassin du lac Tchad: Actes du IIIème Colloque MEGA-TCHAD, Paris, ORSTOM, 11-12 septembre 1986 edited by Daniel Barreteau and Henry Tourneaux, pp. 121-155. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1990.
• Barreteau, Daniel, Lilian Sorin-Barreteau with Alioun Bayo Mana. "La poterie chez les Mofu-Gudur: des gestes, des formes et des mots," in Le milieu et les hommes: recherches comparatives et historiques dans le bassin du Lac Tchad: actes de 2ème colloque Méga-Tchad ORSTOM BONDY, le 3 et 4 octobre 1985 edited by Daniel Barreteau and Henri Tourneaux, pp. 287-339. Paris: ORSTOM, 1988.
• Beltrami, Vanni. "Le sculture in terracotta del Komaland." Africa (Rome) 47, no. 3 (Sept. 1992): pp. 424-434.
• Berns, Marla C. "Art, History, and Gender: Women and Clay in West Africa." The African Archaeological Review 11, Special Issue: Papers in Honour of Merrick Posnansky (1993): pp. 129-148.
• Bityong, Y. I. "Culture Nok, Nigeria," in Vallées du Niger, pp. 393-415. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
• Blier, Suzanne Preston. Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Boullier, Claire. Les Sculptures en terre cuite de style Nok: approche pluridisciplinaire. Mémoire de DEA. Paris: Université de Paris I - Panthéon, 1995-1996.
• Brent, Michel. "Faking African Art." Archaeology 54, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2001): pp. 26-32.
• Broggini, Fillipo and Romano Broggini. "Per un'ulteriore interpretazione delle terracotte del Komaland (nord-Ghana)," in Dall'archeologia all'arte tradizionale africana/De l'archéologie à l'art traditionnel africain/From Archaeology to Traditonal African Art: A cura di Gigi Pezzoli, pp. 51-63. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 1992.
• Claes, Philippe. Contribution à l'étude de céramiques anciennes des environs de Yaoundé. Mémoire de licence, Université libre de Bruxelles, 1985.
• Counts, Charles. "Lergam Legacy: Notes From a Bag of Pottery Fragments." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 8-9 (July-Aug.-Sept.-Oct.-Nov.-Dec. 1991): pp. 29-33.
• Counts, Charles. "Northern Nigeria Pottery in Transition." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 6-7 (Jan.-Feb.-March-April-May-June 1991): pp. 5-12.
• Counts, Charles and Hedi Bak. "Kanuri Töpferei - eine Frauensache." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 6-7 (Jan.-Feb.-March-April-May-June 1991): p. 38.
• Croucher, Sarah and Stephanie Wynne-Jones. "People, not Pots: Locally Produced Ceramics and Identity on the Nineteenth-Century East African Coast." International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 107-124.
• David, Nicholas, Judith Sterner and Kodzo Gavua. "Why Pots are Decorated." Current Anthropology (Chicago) 29, no. 3 (June 1988): pp. 365-89.
• de Saulieu, Geoffroy, Richard Oslisly, Pascal Nlend, and François Ngouoh. "Deux mille cinq cents ans de traditions céramiques à Dibamba Yassa (Cameroun)." Afrique: Archéologie et Arts 13 (2017): pp. 23-40.
• Delneuf, Michèle. La céramique néolithique du village d'Akreijit. Mémoire de maitrise, Paris X, 1981.
• Delneuf, Michèle. "Histoire du peuplement et cultures materielles: la poterie Giziga du Diamare (nord Cameroun)," in Langues et cultures dans le bassin du lac Tchad: journées d'études les 4 et 5 septembre 1984, ORSTOM (Paris) edited by Daniel Barreteau, pp. 87-104. Paris: ORSTOM, 1987.
• Detavernier, Hervé. "Terres cuites koma du Nord-Ghana: étude archéometrique et classification." Arts d'Afrique noire 74 (Summer 1990): pp. 17-27.
• Dixneuf, Delphine. "Un lot d'amphores de la premiere moitié du VIIe siècle à Baouit (Moyenne Egypte): Campagne 2004 - (Sondage 3)," in Etudes coptes X Douzième journée d'études (Lyon, 19021 mai 2005) edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, pp. 39-50. Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 16. Paris: De Boccard, 2008.
• 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.
• Dupuis, Annie and Nicole Echard. "La poterie traditionnelle hausa de l'Ader (Rép. du Niger)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 41, no. 1 (1971): pp. 7-34.
• Échallier, J.-C. "Essai de classification descriptive de la céramique berbère du Touat-Gourara." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 43, no. 1 (1973): pp. 7-31.
• Elouga, Martin. "Sémiologie des motifs décoratifs de la céramique actuelle d'un groupe bantu du sud-Cameroun: Les Beti de la Lékié." NSI: Bulletin de liason des archéologues du monde bantu (Libreville) 10-11 (1992): pp. 17-24.
• Fagg, Angela. "Thoughts on Nok." African Arts (Los Angeles) 27, no. 3 (July 1994): pp. 79-83, 103.
• Fagg, Bernard. "A Life-Size Terra-cotta Head from Nok." Man 56 (1956): p. 89.
• Fagg, Bernard. Nok Terracottas. London and Lagos: Ethnographica, 1977.
• Fagg, Bernard. "A Preliminary Note on a Seies of Pottery Figurines from Northern Nigeria." Africa 15, no. 1 (1945): pp. 21-22.
• Faublée, Jacques. "Foyers kotoko." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 12 (1942): pp. 260-265.
• Finch, Jonathan. "Inside the Pot House: Diaspora, Identity and Locale in Barbadian Ceramics." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2013): pp. 115-130.
• Fischer, Eberhard and Hans Himmelheber. The Arts of the Dan in West Africa. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1984.
• Forni, Silvia. "Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfiels (Cameroon)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 40, no. 1 (Spring 2007): pp. 42-53.
• Forni, Silvia. "Masters, Trend-makers, and Producers: The Village of Nsei, Cameroon, as a Multisited Pottery Workshop," in African Art and Agency in the Workshop edited by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster, pp. 91-110. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013.
• Frank, Barbara E. Griot Potters of the Folona: A History of an African Ceramic Tradition. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. [Reviewed by Elizabeth Perrill for H-Net Reviews, available at https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60181.]
• Frank, Barbara E. Mande Potters and Leatherworkers: Art and Heritage in West Africa. Washington, D. C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
• Gallay, Alain. "La poterie en pays Sarakolé (Mali, Afrique Occidentale): Etude de technologie traditionnelle." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 1 (1970): pp. 7-84.
• Gallay, Alain. "Traditions céramiques et ethnies dans le Delta intérieur du Niger (Mali)." Bulletin Genevoise d’Antrhopologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 23-46.
• Gerelyes, Ibolya. "Seeking the East in the West: The Zsolnay Phenomenon." Muqarnas 21 (2004): p.. 139-152.
• Gilbert, Michelle. "Bura Funerary Urns: Niger Terracottas: An Interpretive Limbo?" African Arts 53, no. 1 (Spring 2020): pp. 66-75.
• Gordon, G. B. "Arabic Art." The Museum Journal (Philadelphia) 13, no. 1 (March 1922): pp. 9-31.
• Gosselain, Oliver P. "Skimming Through Potters' Agendas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Clay Selection Strategies in Cameroon," in Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa edited by S. Terry Childs, pp. 99-107. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Technology, Supplement to Vol. 11. Philadelphia: MASCA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antrhopology, 1994.
• Gosselain, Olivier P. "Technology and Style: Potters and Pottery Making Among the Bafia of Cameroon." Man (London) 27, no. 3 (1992): PP. 559-586.
• Gosselain, Olivier P. and Paul-Louis van Berg. "Style, individualité et taxonomie chez les potières Bafia du Cameroun." Bulletin du Centre Genevoise d'Anthropologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 99-114.
• Grunne, Bernard de. "An Art Historical Approach to the Terracotta Figures of the Inland Niger Delta.” African Arts (Los Angeles) 28, no. 4 (Autumn 1995): pp. 70-9, 112.
• Grunne, Bernard de. The Birth of Art in Africa: Nok Statuary in Nigeria. Paris: Société nouvelle Adam Biro and Luxembourg, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, 1998.
• Guimont, C. "Djenne: Eléments d'une civilisation du delta interieur du Niger." Arts d'Afrique noire 28 (Winter 1978): pp. 11-21.
• Harter, Pierre. "Les pipes cérémonielles de l’ouest camerounais." Arts d’Afrique noire 8 (Winter 1973): pp. 18-43.
• Hauser, Mark W. and Christopher R. DeCorse. "Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora: Problems and Prospects," International Journal of Historical Archaeology (New York) 7, no. 1 (2003): pp. 67-98.
• Heckroodt, R.O. "Phokka Pottery from Northern Malawi." Society of Malawi Journal 38, no. 2 (1985): pp. 20-8.
• Holod, Renata and Enrico Cirelli. “Islamic Pottery from Jerba (7th-10th century) Aspects of Continuity?” in La Céramique Maghrébine du Moyen Age (VIIIe – Xe Siècles) edited by Patrice Cressier and Elizabeth Fentress, pp. 165-186. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2011.
• Jansen, Gerard and Jean-Gabriel Gauthier. Ancient Art of the Northern Cameroons: Sao and Fali/Art ancien du Nord-Cameroun: Sao et Fali. Oosterhout, The Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1973.
• Jemkur, J. F. Aspects of the Nok Culture. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1992.
• Jules-Rosette, B. "The Women Potters of Lusaka: Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Adjustment," in African Migration and National Development edited by B. Lindsay, pp. 82-112. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.
• Kaiser, Kevin Robert. Water, Milk, Beer and Wine for the Living and Dead: Egyptian and Syro-Palestinian Bes-vessels from the New Kingdom Through the Graeco-Roman Period. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
• Kaplan, Steven and Chaim Rosen. "Created in their Own Image: A Comment on Beta Israel Figurines." Cahiers d'études africaines 36, no. 141-142 (1996): pp. 171-182.
• Krieger, K.  “Töpferei der Hausa,” in Beiträge zur Völkerforschung, Hans Damm zum 65, Geburtstag edited by D. Drost and W. König, pp. 363-368.  Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig 11.  Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1961.
• Kirkman, James S. “Les importations de ceramique sur la côte du Kenya.” Revue de Madagascar 35 (1966): pp. 1-10.
• Kirkman, James S. “A Note on the Ceramics of East Africa.” Post-Medieval Ceramic Research Group, Broadsheet No. 3, Sept. 1965, pp. 21-22.
• Kirkman, James S. “Potters’ Marks from Mediaeval Arab Sites in Kenya.” South African Archaeological Bulletin 13 (1958): pp. 156-159.
• Kreamer, Christine Mullen. "Money, Power, and Gender: Some Social and Economic Factors in Moba Male and Female Pottery Traditions (Northern Togo)." Iowa Studies in African Art 4 (2000): pp. 189-212.
• Lauwe, Paul-Henry de. "Pierres et poteries sacrées du Mandara, Cameroun Nord (Mission Sahara-Cameroun)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7, no. 1 (1937): pp. 53-68.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Signification de la céramique Sao (Tchad)." Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 104 (1960): pp. 394-405.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul and Annie Lebeuf. Les Arts des Sao: Cameroun, Tchad, Nigeria. Paris: Chêne, 1977. [Review by Françoise Treinen-Claustre available online in Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 218-220.]
• Lebeuf, Annie Masson-Detourbet. "Céramistes e orfevres de basses vallées du Chari et du Logone," in Dall'archeologia all'arte tradizionale africana/De l'archéologie à l'art traditionnel africain/From Archaeology to Traditonal African Art: A cura di Gigi Pezzoli, pp. 109-118. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 1992.
• Lebeuf, Jean-Paul. "Les collections Sao du Musée Lebaudy (Cabrerets, Lot)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 183-186.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "La leçon d'un procès ou la mésaventure d'Issaka Zango." Arts d'Afrique noire 55 (Autumn 1985): pp. 19-20.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Un test au C.14: Lorsque la technique vient au secours du 'coup d'oeil'." Arts d'Afrique noire 38 (Summer 1981): pp. 6-7.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Les terres cuites de Djenné au C.C.F. de Rome." Arts d'Afrique noire 75 (Autumn 1990): pp. 11-13.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Vallées du Niger." Arts d'Afrique noire 88 (Winter 1993): pp. 15-17.
• Levinsohn, Rhoda. "Amacunu Beverage Containers." African Arts (Los Angeles) 16, no. 3 (May 1983): pp. 53-55, 80.
• Lyon-Caen, Christiane. "Bouchons d'amphore et bouchons de jarre du site de Baouit: problématique et premier récolement," in Etudes coptes X Douzième journée d'études (Lyon, 19021 mai 2005) edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, pp. 63-76. Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 16. Paris: De Boccard, 2008.
• MacEachern, A. Scott. "Ethnicity and Stylistic Variation Around Mayo Plata, Northern Cameroon," in An African Commitment: Papers in Honour of Peter Lewis Shinnie edited by Judy Sterner and Nicholas David, pp. 211-230. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1992.
• 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.
• Marchal, Henri. "Une tête africaine en terre cuite de la civilisation de Nok." Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France (Paris) 42, no. 5-6 (Dec. 1992): pp. 40-42.
• Marlhens, G. La céramique néolithique d'Akreijit. Mémoire DEA, Paris I, 1981.
• Marliac, Alain. "Note de présentation d'objets lithiques et céramiques de la région de Banyo (Adamaoua) au Cameroun." Cahiers de l'ORSTOM Sciences humaines 15, no. 4 (1978): pp. 353-361.
• Martinez, N. "Notes sur la poterie et les potiers d'Azemmour." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 35, no. 2 (1965): pp. 251-282.
• Mason, Ruth.  “Telling Our Story.”  Na’amat Woman 19, no. 1 (Winter 2003): pp. 8-12.
• Marya, James M. Bura Pottery in Biu Local Government Area. Final Year Essay, Department of Creative Arts, University of Maiduguri, 1990.
• Meier, Sandy Prita. “Chinese Porcelain and Muslim Port Cities: Mercantile Materiality in Coastal East Africa.” Art History 38, no. 4 (Sept. 2015): pp. 702-717.
• Morgan, Thomas Bruce and Hilke Hennig. The Ethnography of Pottery: a Fulani Case Seen in Archaeological Perspective. A McCaleb module in anthropology. Addison-Wesley modular publications 21. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1972.
• Mori, Jun. "The Pottery-forming Techniques in Bamessing and Vicinity, West Cameroon," in Africa 3 edited by Shohei Wada and Paul K. Eguchi, pp. 247-264. Senri Ethnological Studies 15. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1984.
• Nenquin, Jacques. "Quelques poteries protohistoriques à face humaine trouvées au Katanga (Congo)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 30, no. 2 (1960): pp. 145-150.
• Nicholson, W. E.  “The Potters of Sokoto, N. Nigeria.” Man 29 (1929): pp. 45-50.
• Nicholson, W. E.  “The Potters of Sokoto: B. Zorumawa, C. Rumbukawa.” Man 31 (1931): pp. 187-190.
• Nijembazi, Autoinette. "La poterie au Burundi." Culture et société: Revue de civilisation (Bujumbura) 10 1988): pp. 48-60.
• O'Hear, A. "Pottery Making in Ilorin: A Study of the Decorated Water Cooler." Africa 56, no. 2 (1986): pp. 175-92.
• Paine, Frances. "Not Pottering About." African Sunrise (London) 3, no. 4 (1990): p. 13.
• Pankhurst, Richard. "Ethiopian Figurines from Mugar Monastery in Shawa." African Arts 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 42-47, 90.
• Pankhurst, Rita and Richard Pankhurst. "Ethiopian Figurines from Mugar Monastery in Shawa." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 42-7, 90.
• Pinçon, Bruno and Dominique Ngoïe-Ngalla. "L'unité culturelle kongo à la fin du XIXe siècle: L'apport des études ceramologiques." Cahiers d'études africaines (Paris) 30, no. 2 (1990): pp. 157-177.
• Platte, Editha. Kanuri Töpferei - eine Frauensache. M.A. Thesis, Frankfurt, 1990.
• Platte, Editha. "Remarks on Kanuri Pottery." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 10 (Jan.-Feb.-March 1992): pp. 5-12.
• Polet, Jean. "A propose de thermoluminescence: Quelques réflexions sur l'application de la méthode de datation par thermoluminescence aux œuvres d'art africaines en terre cuite." Arts d'Afrique noire 76 (Winter 1990): pp. 55-59.
• Preuss, Christine. Mbanké und Messi: die Töpferei der Bamum im Wandel: eine Studie im Grasland Kameruns. Kulturanthropologische Studien 26. Hamburg: LIT, 1997.
• Privati, Béatrice. "Remarques sur les ateliers de potiers de Kerma et sur la céramique du Groupe C." Geneva n.s. 34 (1986): pp. 23-28.
• Robert, Denise. "Poteries récentes des îles Canaries." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 30, no. 1 (1960): pp. 15-55.
• Robert, Denise. "Statuette anthropomorphe du site de Tegdaoust." Notes africaines 112 (1966): pp. 142-143.
• Roset, Jean-Pierre. "Poteries néolithiques du Ténéré: 1. La région de l'Adrar Chiriet." Cahiers de l'ORSTOM Sciences humaines 15, no. 4 (1978): pp. 379-406.
• Roset, Jean-Pierre. "Un site à céramique peinte dans l'Aïr oriental (Niger)." Cahiers de l'ORSTOM Sciences humaines 14, no. 3 (1977): pp. 337-346.
• Roumeguere, Pierre, and Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt. "Poupées de fertilité et figurines d'argile. Leurs lois initiatiques." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 30, no. 2 (1960): pp. 205-223.
• Sadiq, Yusuf O. "Traditional Potters Learn New Skills in Rural Borno." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 6-7 (Jan.-Feb.-March-April-May-June 1991): pp. 52-53.
• Shirland, Jonathan. Nourishment, Hospitality, Conveyance: Works of Art by the People of Southern Africa. Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2012.
• Slogar, Christopher Lawrence. Iconography and Continuity in West Africa: Calabar Terracottas and the Arts of the Cross River Region of Nigeria/Cameroon. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
• Sterner, Judith. "Sacred Pots and 'Symbolic Reservoirs' in the Mandara Highlands of Northern Cameroon," in An African Commitment: Papers in Honour of Peter Lewis Shinnie edited by Judy Sterner and Nicholas David, pp. 171-179. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1992.
• Stössel, Arnulf. "La céramique africaine à Munich: Artisanat et art traditionnel au sud du Sahara." Arts d'Afrique noire 53 (Spring 1985): pp. 33-34.
• Thiam, Mandiomé. La céramique au Sénégal: archéologie et histoire. Ph.D., Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1991.
• Thilmans, G., D. Robert, and A. Ravise. "Découverte d'un fragment de poterie émaillée à Sintiou Bara (fleve Sénégal)." Notes africaines 159 (1978): pp. 59-60.
• Tiffo, Emmanuel, Antoine Elimbi, Joseph Dika Manga, and Arlin Bruno Tchamba. “Red ceramics produced from mixtures of kaolinite clay and waste glass.” Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology 2, no. 1 (2015): pp. 1-13.
• Tremearne, A. J. N.  “Pottery in Northern Nigeria.”  Man 10 (1910): pp. 102-103.
• Valentin, Peter. "Les pipes en terre des Ashanti." Arts d'Afrique noire 19 (Autumn 1976): pp. 8-13.
• van Doosselaere, Barbara. Le roie et le potier: Etude technologique de l'assemblage céramique de Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie (5e/6e - 17e siècles AD). Reports in African Archaeology 5. Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna Verlag, 2014.
• Vander Linden, Marc M. "Social Dynamics and Pottery Distribution in the Faro Department, Northern Cameroon." African Archaeological Review 18, no. 3 (2001): pp. 135-151.
• Vivian, Brian C. "Sacred to Secular: Transitions in Akan Funerary Customs,"in An African Commitment: Papers in Honour of Peter Lewis Shinnie edited by Judy Sterner and Nicholas David, pp. 157-167. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1992.
• Walker, Bethany Joelle. The Ceramic Correlates of Decline in the Mamluk Sultanate: An Analysis of Late Medieval Sgraffito Wares. Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998.
• Works of Art by the People of Southern African IV: Imisebenzi Yobuciko, Bezizwe Yase, Mzansu Afrika. Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2001.