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• Abbate, Francesco, ed. African Art and Oceanic Art. London: Octopus Books, 1972.
• Adahl, Karin and Berit Sahlström. Islamic Art and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Figura Nova Series 27. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1995
• Adande, Joseph C. E. "L'art africain et l'imaginaire des autres entre le XVIe et le début du XXe 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.
• Adepegba, Cornelius Oyeleke. "Ona: The Concept of Art among the Yoruba," in Yoruba Culture, pp. 1-6. Ibadan: Nigerian Field Society, Ibadan Branch, 1992.
• Adepegba, Cornelius Oyeleke. "The Present Knowledge of and Explanations on Some Possible Discouraging Issues Researching into the Art of the Fulani Especially of Nigeria." Unpublished Paper for the Conference on Fulani Studies Oranized by the Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Ado Bayere College, Kano, June 24-26, 1977.
• Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan. 2 vols. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1978. [Reviewed by Sondra Hale in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 29-31, 76.]
• African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
• Akar, John. "The Arts in Sierra Leone." Sierra Leone Review (Washington, DC) 1, no. 1 (Winter 1992): pp. 94-99.
• 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.
• Aldred, Cyril. Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharoahs, 3100-320 B.C. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
• Ammoun, Denise. Crafts of Egypt. Photography by Jean-Louis Bersuder. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1991.
• 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.
• Antubam, Kofi. Ghana's Heritage of Culture. Leipzig: Koehler and Amelong, 1963.
• Argenti, Nicolas. "African Aesthetics: Moving to See the Mask." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 23, no. 3 (1992): pp. 197-215.
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.
• Arnold, Marion and Brenda Schmahmann, eds. Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa, 1910-1994. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.
• Arnoldi, Mary Jo. "The Artistic Heritage of Somalia," in Somalia in Word and Image edited by K.S. Loughran, et. al., pp. 17-26. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Cross Cultural Understanding in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Atil, Esin. Art of the Arab World. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1975.
• Becker, Cynthia Jeanne. Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006
• Becker, Cynthia Jeanne. Arts, Gender and Changing Constructions of Amazigh (Berber) Identity: The Ait Khabbash of Southeastern Morocco, 1930-1999. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000.
• Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999.
• Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. "Artistic Creativity in Benin Kingdom." African Arts 19, no. 3 (1986): pp. 60-3.
• Biebuyck, Daniel. The Arts of Zaire. Volume II: Eastern Zaire. The Ritual and Artistic Context of Voluntary Associations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
• Binkley, David A. and Patricia Darish. Kuba. Visions of Africa. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2009.
• Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
• 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.
• Bossert, Helmuth Theodor. Folk Art of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. Yaka. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2014.
• Bourouiba, Rachid. L'art musulman en Algérie. Algiers: S.N.E.D., 1972.
• Bourouiba, Rachid. L'art religieux musulmane en Algérie. Algiers: S.N.E.D., 1973.
• Bovin, Mette. Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty: Wodaabe Dances and Visual Arts in Niger. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2001.
• Brain, Robert. Art and Society in Africa. London: Longman, 1980.
• Cameron, Elisabeth L. Art of the Lega. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
• Cameroun art et architecture: 4 novembre 1988 - 13 février 1989. Cahiers de l'ADEIAO 7. Paris: Musée national des arts africains et océaniens, 1988.
• Carman, Jillian, ed. Visual Century: South African Art in Context. 4 vols. Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2011.
• Chesi, Gert. "Architettura e arte dei Dogon del Mali: il cielo in terra." Nigrizia: fatti e problemi del mondo nero (Rome) 110, no. 7-8 (luglio-agosto 1992): pp. 29-44.
• Chojnacki, Stanislaw and Paul B. Henze. "A Rich Heritage: Still Inadequately Explored," in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 9-16. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Cole, Herbert M. and Doran H. Ross. The Arts of Ghana. Los Angeles, CA: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1977.
• Conner, Michael W. The Art of the Jere and Maseko Ngoni of Malawi, 1818-1964. African Studies Series 1, no. 1. New York: Man's Heritage Press, 1993.
• 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.]
• Creation artistique et artisanale au Rwanda/Ubugeni n'ubukorikori mu Rwanda. Kigali: Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique, 1986.
• Delange, Jacqueline. The Art and Peoples of Black Africa. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1974.
• Curnow, Kathy. The Bright Continent: African Art History. Cleveland, OH: Michael Schwartz Library OER Program, 2021.
• 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.
• Dewey, W.J. "Shona Male and Female Artistry." African Arts 19, no. 3 (1986): pp. 64-7.
• Diversity of Creativity in Nigeria: Book of Abstracts: 1st International Conference on the Diversity of Creativity in Nigeria. Ile-Ife: Department of Fine Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, 1992.
• Djache Nzefa, Sylvain, et al. Les civilisations du Cameroun: histoire, art, architecture et sociétés traditionnelles. Dschang, Cameroon: Éditions de la Route des chefferies, 2012.
• Drewal, Henry John. "L'art d'Ile-Ifè: Sources & Significations du Réalisme." Arts d'Afrique noire 87 (Autumn 1993): pp. 41-51.
• Drewal, Henry John and John Pemberton III with Rowland Abiodun. Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought. Edited by Allen Wardwell. New York, NY: The Center for African Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
• Du Puigaudeau, Odette. "Arts et coutumes des Maures." Hespéris Tamuda 8, no. 1 (1967): pp. 111-196; 9, no. 3 (1968): pp. 329-427.
• Engard, Ronald K. Bringing the Outside In: Commensality and Incorporation in Bafut Myth, Ritual, Art and Social Organization. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1986.
• Etienne-Nugue, Jocelyne. Artisanats traditionnels en Afrique noire, Togo. Collection Artisanats traditionnels en Afrique noire. Dakar: Institut culturel africain, 1992.
• Etienne-Nugue, Jocelyne. Crafts and the arts of living in the Cameroon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
• Ettinghausen, Richard and Oleg Grabar. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
• Eyo, Ekpo and Frank Willett. Treasures of Ancient Nigeria. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, in association withthe Detroit Institute of Arts, 1980. [Reviewed by Douglas Fraser in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 15-22.]
• Farrington, Lisa E. Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Fischer, Eberhard, et al. African masters: art from the Ivory Coast. Zurich: Museum Rietberg and Scheidegger and Spiess, 2014.
• Fraser, Douglas and Herbert M. Cole, eds. African Art and Leadership. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.
• Fubah, Mathias Alubafi. The art of the Bambui Kingdom (Western Grassfields, Cameroon). Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
• Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth. Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2014. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review 60, no. 3 (Dec. 2017): pp. 250-253.]
• Gauthier, Jean-Gabriel. Les Fali de Ngoutchoumi: Hou et Talo: montagnards du Nord-Cameroun. Oosterhout, Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1969.
• Gauthier, Jean-Gabriel. "Organisation des necropoles et tradition orale: l'example du pays fali Nord-Cameroun." Bulletins et memoires, Societe d'anthropologie de Paris 2, no. 3-4 (1990): 201-218.
• Geary, Christraud M. Bamum. Visions of Africa. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011.
• Gebauer, Paul. Art of Cameroon. Portland, Or.: Portland Art Museum; New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979.
• 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.]
• Gollnhofer, Otto, Pierre Sallée, and Roger Sillans. Art et artisanat tsogho. Travaux et documents de l’O.R.S.T.O.M. 42. Secrétariat d’Etat à la culture et aux arts de la République gabonaise, Direction des artes et musées nationaux, Musée national des arts et traditions du Gabon. Paris: Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer, 1975. [Review by Annie Dupuis available online in Journal des africanistes 46, no. 1-2 (1976): pp. 250-251.]
• Golvin, L. "Le legs des Ottomans dans le domaine artistique en Afrique du Nord." Revue de l'Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée 39 (1985): pp. 201-26.
• Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk and Alexander Botelot, eds. Visions from the Forest: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review 60, no. 3 (Dec. 2017): pp. 253-255.]
• Guenneguez, André and Ato Guenneguez. Art de la Côte d’Ivoire et ses voisins. Paris: Harmattan, 1992. [Reviewed in Arts d’Afrique noire (Arnouville) 84 (Winter 1992): p. 62.]
• 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.
• Harter, Pierre. Arts anciens du Cameroun. Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1986.
• Haynes, D. E. L. The Pre-Islamic Antiquities of Tripolitania. Longon: Trinity Press, 1959.
• Heathcote, David. The Arts of the Hausa. London: World of Islam Festival, 1976.
• Hein, Ewald and Brigitte Kleidt. Ethiopia - Christian Africa: Art, Churches and Culture. Ratingen, Germany: Melina-Verlag, 1999.
• Henze, Paul B., ed. Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• 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.
• Islamic Art and Architecture in Libya. London: Libyan General Committee for Participation in the World of Islam Festival and the Architectural Association, 1976
• Jama, Shukri Mohamed. "In Search of Somali Art,"in the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies edited by Hussein M. Adam and Charles L. Geshekter, pp. 907-10 . Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1992.
• 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.]
• Kamalu, Chukwunyere. Foundations of African Thought: A Worldview Grounded in the African Heritage of Religion, Philosophy, Science, and Art. London: Karnak House, 1990.
• 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.]
• Klopper, Sandra and Michael Godby. "Art and Freedom: South Africa after Apartheid: Introduction." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 16-17.
• Kreamer, Christine Mullen. The Art and Ritual of the Moba of Northern Togo. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1986.
• Kreamer, Christine Mullen. Art rich/Art Poor: Whose Values? The Value of Work: A Framework for Interpreting the Art and Ritual of the Moba of Northern Togo. Unpublished paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, 20-23 November 1992.
• Kröger, Franz and Ben Baluri Saibu. First Notes on Koma Culture: Life in a Remote Area of Northern Ghana. Research on African Languages and Cultures 13. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010.
• Labouret, Henri. "L'art au Cameroun." Togo-Cameroun (Paris) (April-July 1935): pp. 167-176.
• Lain, Luciana and Francesco Calloni. Tam tam. Gorle: Editrice Velar; Cammino, Missioni Cappuccini, 1990.
• 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.]
• Lecoq, Raymond. Les Bamiléké. Paris: Présence africaine, 1998.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Questions d'esthétique en Afrique noire." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 74 (Summer 1990): pp. 51-55.
• Leiris, Michel and Jacqueline Delange. Afrique noire: la création plastique. L'univers des formes 11. Paris: Gallimard, 1967.
• Leuzinger, Elsy. Africa: Kunst der Negervolker. Baden-Baden: Holle, 1960.
• Leuzinger, Elsy. Die Kunst von Schwarz Africa. Zurich: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1970.
• Lewis, Samella. African American Art and Artists. Forward by Floyd Coleman. Introduction by Mary Jane Hewitt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
• Loughran, K.S. et. al. (eds.) Somalia in Word and Image. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Cross Cultural Understanding in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Mack, John, ed. Africa: Arts and Cultures. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Mauritanie: Terre des Hommes. Bordeaux: Ville de Bordeaux, 1993.
• McLeod, Malcolm D. "Art and Archaeology in Asante," 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. 65-81. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 1992.
• Mork, P. "Islam in Tropical Africa," in Sultan, Shah, and Great Mughal: The History and Culture of the Islamic World, pp. 260-3. Copenhagen: National Museum, 1996.
• Mshana, Fadhili Safieli. Art and Identity among the Zaramo of Tanzania. Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2000.
• Mveng, R. P. Engelbert. L'art et l'artisanat africains. Yaoundé: Editions Clé, 1980.
• Nettleton, Anitra, Julia Charlton, and Fiona Rankin-Smith. Engaging Modernities: Transformations of the Commonplace. Johannesberg: University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries, 2003. [Reviewed ny Lize Van Robbroech in African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 6-14, 93.
• 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.
• Nkengasong, John Nkemngong, ed. Perspectives on Cameroonian Art, Archaeology and Culture: Papers in Honour of Professor Bole Butake. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2014.
• Oberlé, Philippe. Provinces malgaches: art - histoire - tourisme. Riedisheim, France: Éditions Kintana; Antananarivo: Diffusion Madagascar, Librairie de Madagascar, 1979. [Review by Jacques Faublée and Marcelle Faublée available online in Journal des africanistes 49, no. 2 (1979): pp. 178-181.]
• O'Keefe, Tricia. "Strategy or Spectacle? Postmodernism, African-American Artists and Art Scholarship." Third Text (London) 19, no. 6 (Nov. 2005): pp. 617-623.
• Okediji, Moyo. The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art. A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
• Omokhodion, D. "Features of Benin Art." African Study Monographs 6 (1986): pp. 67-70.
• Paulme, Denis, André Schaeffner, and Deborah Lifchitz. Lettres de Sanga à André Schaeffner, suivi des Lettres de Sanga de Deborah Lifchitz et Denise Paulme à MIchel Leiris. Paris: Fourbis, 1992.
• Perani, Judith and Fred T. Smith. The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
• Périer, G.D. Les arts populaires du Congo belge. Collection nationale, 8th series, no. 90. Brussels: Office de publicité, 1948.
• Perrois, Louis. Arts du Gabon. Arnouville, France: Arts d'Afrique Noire and Paris: ORSTOM, 1979. [Reviewed by Leon Siroto in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 76-9.]
• Perrois, Louis and Jean-Paul Notue. "Contribution à l'étude des arts plastiques du Cameroun." Muntu (Libreville) 4-5 (1986): pp. 165-222.
• Perrot, Claude-Hélène. "Objets européens en usage à Kumasi à la veille de la conquête anglaise d'après le journal de Joseph-Marie Bonnat," in Actas/Renuião Internacional de História de Africa (1st: 1988 Lisbon, Portugal) edited by Maria Emília Madeira Santos, pp. 129-133. Lisbon: Centro de Estudo de História e Cartografia Antiga, Instituto de Investigão Cientifica e tropical, 1989.
• Picton, John. "Islam, Artifact and Identity in South-Western Nigeria." 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. 71-98.
• Powell, Richard J. Black Art: A Cultural History. World of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1997; 2nd edition, 2002.
• 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.]
• Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Ramos, Manuel João and Isabel Boadvida, ed. The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26-30 November 1999). Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. [Reviewed by Peri Klemm in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 162-163.]
• Roberts, Allen F. "Duality in Tabwa Art." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 26-35, 86.
• Robins, Gay. The Art of Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Ross, Doran H. and Timothy F. Garrard. Akan Transformations: Problems in Ghanaian Art History. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Monograph Series 21. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1983.
• Rostaing Casini, Mireille. I segreti degli uomini blu: Alla scoperta del misterioso mondo dei Tuareg. Milan: A Mondadori, 1992.
• Roy, Christopher D., ed. "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.]
• Sallée, Pierre. "Premier symposium d'ethno-esthétique africaine." Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 155-156.
• Salles, Georges. "Réflexions sur l'art nègre." Arts d'Afrique noire 65 (Spring 1988): pp. 44-48.
• Samatar, S.S. "Somali Verbal and Material Arts," in Somalia in Word and Image edited by K.S. Loughran, et. al., pp. 27-34. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Cross Cultural Understanding in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Schweeger-Hefel, Annemarie. "L'art Nioniosi." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 36, no. 2 (1966): pp. 251-332.
• Seidensticker-Brikay, Gisela. "Of Artisans and Artists: Review of Recent Ethnographic Documentation Projects." Borno Museum Society Newsletter (Maiduguri) 3-4 (April-May-June-July Aug.-Sept. 1990): pp. 31-36.
• Seligman, Thomas K. and Kristyne Loughran, eds. Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World. Stanford and Los Angeles, CA: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University and UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2006.
• Sieber, Roy. "Traditional Arts of Black Africa," in Africa edited by P.M. Martin and P. O'Meara, pp. 212-32. 2nd Edition. Bloominton, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Sieber, Roy and Theodore Celenko. "Rayons X et art africain." Arts d'Afrique noire 21 (Spring 1977): pp. 16-28.
• Silverman, Raymond A., ed. Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity. East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1998.
• Strowaski, Fortunat. "Cote des Somalis." Les richesses artistiques de la France coloniale 5, no. 4 (1922): pp. 235-237.
• Sweeney, J. J. African Negro Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935.
• Taylor, John H. Egypt and Nubia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
• Terrasse, Henri and J. Hainaut. Les Arts décoratifs au Maroc. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1925.
• Twa, Lindsay J. Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910–1950. Andover: Routledge, 2016. [Reviewed by José Gutiérrez in Visual Studies 31, no. 4 (2016): pp. 355-356.]
• van der Watt, Liese. "'Making Whiteness Strange': White Identity in Post-Aparthid South African Art." Third Text 56 (Autumn 2001): pp. 63-74.
• Van Dyke, Kristina Marie. The Oral-Visual Nexus: Rethinking Visuality in Mali. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005.
• Vangelli, Emidio. "Somali Figurative Arts and Their Contribution to Development,"in the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies edited by Hussein M. Adam and Charles L. Geshekter, pp. 921-3. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1992.
• Visonà, Monica Blackmun, et. al. A History of Art in Africa. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2000. [Reviewed online by Christopher Roy on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/15.]
• Vogel, Susan Mullin. Baule Art as the Expression of a World View. Ph.D. dissertation. New York: New York University, 1977.
• Vogel, Susan Mullin. Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. [Reviewed by Paul Stoller in African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): p. 85.]
• Von Folsach, K. and J. Baek Simonsen. "North Africa and Spain," in Sultan, Shah, and Great Mughal: The History and Culture of the Islamic World, pp. 221-7. Copenhagen: National Museum, 1996.
• Wells, Julia C. "From Grahamstown to Egazini: using art and history to construct post colonial identity and healing in the New South Africa. African Studies (Witwatersrand) 62, no. 1 (July 2003): pp. 79-98.
• Willett, Frank. African Art. New Ed. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
• Willett, Frank. African Art: An Introduction. New York: Praeger, 1971.
• Willett, Frank. "African Arts and the Future: Decay or Development?" in African Themes: Northwestern University Studies in Honor of Gwendolen M. Carter edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, pp. 213-26. Evanston, IL: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, 1975.
• Winegar, Jessica R. Claiming Egypt: The Cultural Politics of Artistic Practice in a Postcolonial Society. Ph.D., New York University, 2003.
• Wingert, Paul S. The Sculpture of Negro Africa. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950.
• Wylie, Diana. "'From the Bottom of Our Hearts': Making Art in a Time of Struggle." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 56-61, 96.
• Yeomans, Richard. The Art and Architecture of Islamic Cairo. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 2006.
• Zaynab, Ahmed Taoufik. Trésors et merveilles de la vallée du Draa. Rabat: Marsam, 2005.