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African Highlights
from the Library Image Collection
Ceremonial mask from Wobe or Grebo (Ivory Coast)
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UPenn Library NewBooksPlus for African Studies for the current week
UPenn Library NewBookPlus for African Studies for the week starting May 2, 2008
- 24 Records Fetched
Ancient Egypt / [text and photographs] Farid Atiya.
Gold der Horusfalken : auf den Spuren altaLgyptischer GrabraLuber / Michael HoLveler-MuLller.
Lydia Cabrera y la bantuidad linguLiLstica / JesuLs Fuentes Guerra.
Nofretete und das Geheimnis von Amarna / Carola Wedel.
Objects for eternity : Egyptian antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection / edited by Carol A.R. Andrews and Jacobus van Dijk ; with contributions by Carol A.R. Andrews ... [et al.].
Southern Africa / Jonathan Farley.
Swahili-Lesebuch / aus Pressetexten ausgewaLhlt und kommentiert von Arne A. Ambros.
Decorated elite mastaba and rock-cut tomb in the Eastern and GIS cemeteries at Giza and their relationship to the development of art during the Fourth Dynasty / by Laurel Ann Flentye.
Sir Abdul Razack Mohamed : his life and times : a political biography / Moomtaz Emrith ; foreword by Navinchandra Ramgoolam.
Abane Ramdane : [une vie pour l'Algerie] / Khalfa Mameri.
Arusi ya buldoza na hadithi nyingine / Said A. Mohamed.
Bemba Musota : Omuzannyo gw'Oluganda / Eli Nathan Kyeyune.
Blood on the runway : the Wagalla massacre of 1984 / S. Abdi Sheikh.
Dark deeds : some hunting memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Czech traveller, Emil Holub / edited & introduced by Rob S. Burrett.
Ethnicity and sociopolitical change in Africa and other developing countries : a constructive discourse in state building / edited by Santosh C. Saha.
History of Grand Bay : little village facing an ocean / Abdool Rashid Nujjoo.
King Tutankhamun : the treasures of the tomb / Zahi Hawass ; photographs by Sandro Vannini.
Lobola system and a few other topics / Bill Mufana.
Mille petits quotidiens aL l'iLle Rodrigues / Christian NeLmorin.
New encyclopedia of Africa / John Middleton, editor in chief ; Joseph C. Miller, editor.
Noun class systems in Gur languages / Gudrun Miehe, Kerstin Winkelmann, eds.
Select documents on Indian immigration : Mauritius, 1834-1926 / [edited by] Saloni Deerpalsingh & Marina Carter.
Simply Zanzibar / Javed Jafferji, Gemma Pitcher.
Sites of memory : Julius Nyerere and the liberation struggle of southern Africa / edited by Haroub Othman.
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H-Net Book Reviews on Africa
Chris Bolsmann reviews Edward Webster and Karl von Holdt, eds - Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition
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Chris Bolsmann reviews Edward Webster and Karl von Holdt, eds - Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition
War, Law, and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion
Chronicling a Half Century of Shared Struggle
Gender Politics in Zimbabwean Literature
Urban Cults and Charisma in a West African Kingdom
Presence and Prominence: Foregrounding African Ceramics
Sacred Arts and Negotiation in Candombl
Grappling with Neoliberal Reforms after Apartheid
Delphine Dabrowski-Sangodeyi reviews Richard Tomlinson, Robert Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner and Xolela Mangcu, eds - Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Post-Apartheid City
Confronting for Comparing: Questions of Identity and Territory throughthe Double Prism of Indian and South African Realities
An Overview of AIDS in South Africa
Filmmaking in North and Francophone sub-Saharan Africa
A Blackwell Collection on Gender History
Todd's R and R
Joel E. Tishken reviews Elizabeth Isichei - The Religious Traditions of Africa: A History
Robert Ross reviews Linda Waldman - The Griqua Conundrum: Political and Socio-Cultural Identity in the Northern Cape, South Africa
Africa in International Relations
Not Seeing the Evil in Southern Africa
Understanding Cultures of Fatherhood in South Africa
Teresa Barnes reviews Lynette A. Jackson - Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
Solidarity Forever?
Owen J. M. Kalinga reviews Colin Baker - Chipembere: The Missing Years
Overlapping and Crisscrossing: An Assessment of Ubangi Art
Post-apartheid Urban Dynamics in Namibia
The Politics of Sorcery on the Mueda Plateau of Mozambique
Under Too Black a Sky
Dawne Y. Curry reviews Shireen Hassim - Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority
Updates to the New Edition
Genius on the African Continent
Sound Mind, Sounding Bodies: A Review of Steven Mithen
Visiting Africa via an African University
Anthropological History: Innovative Method Defeats History's ExplanatoryPower
A Return to Folklore
The Evolution of Shari'a Law in Northern Nigeria
Talensi
Broad Survey
Re-Evaluating Art and Aesthetic Data in Anthropological Study: AHistorical Retrospection
Trusting One Another: Aid and Africa
Algeria and the Ambiguities of Value Judgments in History
Identification and Dating of Crosses and Alleged Brancaleon Works
Smiths: Makers of Tuareg Identity
Trusting One Another: Aid and Africa
Threads of Time in West Africa
Pacific Voices Seen and Heard
Re-establishing the Ritual Milieu of African Artifacts: Focus on theBaltimore Museum of Arts
Makerere Students: Challenging Authority?
Youth: An Imagined Social Construct
Is Paris Burning?
Bleached Bones as White Skeletons in the Closet
A "Rooted" Reading of Race in the History of Art
Image Worlds: Central Africa
Art in Senegal, Beyond the Shadow of Modernism
Ludovic Coupaye reviews Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin and Sydel Silverman - One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology
Malyn Newitt reviews Philip Havik - Silences and Soundbytes: The Gendered Dynamics of Trade and Brokerage in the Pre-colonial Guinea Bissau Region
Making Men in Africa
Mark L. Lilleleht reviews Susan Altman and Susan Lechner - Ancient Africa
A Social Scientist's Reading of a Book on Sao Tome and Principe's literature
A Teenager's Struggle
The Press in Ghana's Bourgeoning Democracy
Inside the Empire's Closet: Skeletons of War Crime, Mayhem and Murder
Two Pot Boilers as Remakes of _Beau-geste_
Two Pot Boilers as Remakes of _Beau-geste_
The Last Empire
Scouting in Colonial Africa
African History: Sources, Methods, and Approaches
Coming Home: Displacement and Return in South-East Africa
Maria Ins Varela-Silva reviews Mosh Liba, ed - Jewish Child Slaves in So Tom
Renamo: From Armed Movement to Political Party
Rachel Wrangham reviews Mario J. Azevedo - Tragedy and Triumph: Mozambique Refugees in Southern Africa 1977-2001
Where's Jamela?
The Perfect Princesses
A City of Scholars
Jennifer Houser Wegner reviews Jil Fine - Writing in Ancient Egypt
The Problematic State in Angola and Mozambique
The Best Things in Life
An Ethiopian Girl's Adventures
A Light Look at the Oral Traditions of East African Asians
Michael O. Afolyan reviews Veronique Tadjo - Talking Drum: A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara
There Once Was a King....
There Once Was a King....
There Once Was a King....
Azeb Tadesse reviews Jane Kurtz - Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Ancient Mali Goes to School in Virginia
Gloria Creed-Dikeogu reviews Julius Lester - Shining
Wendy Fall reviews Sylvianne A. Diouf - Bintou's Braids
Philip J. Havik reviews Peter Mark - "Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Pre-Colonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Alcohol and Slaves
Stephen Belcher reviews Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi - The African Epic Controversy: Historical, Philosophical, and Aesthetic Perspectives on Epic Poetry and Performances
Decentralization for Whom?
Capitalism and the Mozambican State
Narratives and Songs from Angola at War
Narratives and Songs from Angola at War
Stephen Belcher reviews Harold Scheub - A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
Stephen Belcher reviews Buchi Offodile - The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folktales
Some Blessed Hope?
Summarizing Twenty-Five Years of Struggle
Cartoons, Market Literature and Genre Fiction: An Overview of African Popular Literature
A New Lawino?
Royal Drums for Ghana's Arts
J. Roger Kurtz reviews Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe, eds - The Companion to African Literatures
Stephen Belcher reviews Ernest N. Emenyonu, ed - Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature
Exile and Postcoloniality in African Literatures
Exile and Postcoloniality in African Literatures
Performing South Africa
Es'kia Mphahlele
Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay reviews Odile Cazenave - Rebellious Women: The New Generation of Female African Novelists
Poetry from South Africa via Manchester
Poetry from South Africa via Manchester
Lisa McNee reviews Susan Stringer - The Senegalese Novel By Women: Through Their Own Eyes
Dayna Oscherwitz reviews Helena Woodard - African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason
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AllAfrica News: Latest
AllAfrica News: Latest
All Africa, All the Time.
Chad: Govt Arrests 4 Peacekeepers
Zimbabwe: Doctors Report Esclation of Violence
Sudan: UN, AU Envoys Alarmed By Darfur Violence
Nigeria: Militants List Conditions for Niger Delta Summit
Kenya: New Rules to Govern Coalition Proposed
Africa: Electric Light Alternatives Could Help Continent
Kenya: Coalition Government Vows to Hold Together
Zimbabwe: Oppostion Dumps Mbeki As Mediator
Africa: 'Political Will' Needed to Address Food Crisis
Mozambique: Country Committed to Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative
Zimbabwe: Hunger Drives Post-Election Violence, Deepens Poverty
Burundi: Fighting Displaces 20,000
Central African Republic: Who's Who With Guns?
Kenya: World Food Programme Official Killed in Northwest
Senegal: Lack of Peace Accord Hampers Demining in Casamance
Liberia: House Passes Anti-Corruption Act
Liberia: Former Treason Suspects Urge to Sue Govt for Damages
Zimbabwe: Editor of Independent Weekly Arrested
Zimbabwe: IMF Official Criticizes Economic Management
Namibia: Strike Looms at Skorpion
South Africa: Mbeki Congratulates New Russian President
Zambia: State to Inject K13bn Into Maternity Wards
Tanzania: Govt Calls Pemba Call for Secession 'Treason'
South Africa: Growth Pace Unsustainable, Say Experts
Nigeria: N300m Scam - Senate Rejects Iyabo's Report
Zimbabwe: MDC Still Discounting Run-Off Election
Tanzania: Security Launches Manhunt for Missing ICTR Witness
Nigeria: Ruling Party Offices Bombed in Bayelsa State
Uganda: HIV Cases Soar Among Kampala Sex Workers
Chad: Southern Region Relatively Stable Despite Refugee Influx
AFRICAN COLLECTION @ PENN
Overview | Collection Development Policy | Finding Africa in the Penn Library
DATABASES & ARTICLE INDEXES
African Studies Centre (Leiden) catalogue | Bullwinkle | DATAD (African theses index) | International Bibliography of the Social Sciences | Anthropology PLUS | Historical Abstracts | Index Islamicus | African Index Medicus | More Databases ...
E-JOURNALS & NEWS
E-Journal Collections: eSA Publications: Social Sciences & Humanities Collection | eSA Publications: Law Collection | JSTOR African Studies e-journals (fulltext backfiles)
E-Journals: African Studies Review | History in Africa | Journal of African History | Journal of Modern African Studies | African Affairs | Journal of African Economies | Africa Today | African Studies | Research in African Literatures | CODESRIA Bulletin | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review | Journal of African Cultural Studies | More E-journals ...
Current News: Africa Confidential | Africa Research Bulletin (Political, Social Cultural) | Africa Research Bulletin (Economic, Financial, Technical) | allAfrica.com | Pambazuka News | News Services from around Africa (UN ECA) | NewspaperDirect (latest 3 weeks of papers from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe) | More News ...
E-BOOKS
E-Reference Works: African Studies Companion | Encyclopedia of Islam | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online | Oxford Islamic Studies Online
E-Book Collections: ACLS History E-Books | eHRAF Collection of Ethnography | African Language Materials Archive | Onitsha Market Literature
Study Abroad in Africa (special issue, African Issues v.28, n.1/2, 2000)
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS & PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL
Microform collections | CAMP microforms at CRL
Colonial-era government documents: Empire Online | Blue Books for Colonial British Africa
IGOs, Government Documents, & Grey Literature: Kwetu.net | Great Lakes Region Dox Network | South Africa: the Making of U.S. Policy 1962-1989 (Digital National Security Archive) | More on IGOs ...
Historic News Sources: FBIS Daily Reports 1974-1996
Censuses and statistics
MATERIALS IN OTHER FORMATS
Videos on Africa and Africans | Videos on Africans abroad | Videos on African health topics | Videos on foreign aid and development assistance in Africa | Reel Voices (videos on Africans in Philadelphia) | VCat
Images of Africa and Africans:  Penn Library Online Image Collections | Bailey's African History Archives | More image collections ...
SELECTED RESEARCH GUIDES
20th Century African History and Politics | Health and Society in Africa | Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa Business | Indian Ocean | Fage on sources for precolonial western Africa | Raw, Medium, Well Done (edited pre-1885 European sources) | Travel and Exploration Narratives and Guide Books | China in Africa (ASC Leiden web dossier)
PENNSYLVANIA AFRICAN STUDIES CONSORTIUM LIBRARIES
Overview | Bryn Mawr College Library | Haverford College Library | Swarthmore College Library | TRIPOD
AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL
ALC web site (hosted by University of Pennsylvania Libraries)