African Studies

This guide is designed to help you get started with research in African Studies. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have questions or need some additional guidance. My contact info is below the Web Portals tab. Email is the best way to contact me initially. I'm always happy to meet in person, by phone, or online to discuss your research.

The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature / edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

• Africa and orality by Liz Gunner
• The folktale and its extensions by Kwesi Yankah
• Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa by Tejumola Olaniyan
• Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa by Sabra Webber
• Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa by Lupenga Mphande
• African oral epics by Isidore Okpewho
• The oral tradition in the African diaspora by Maureen Warner-Lewis
• Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama by Keith Q. Warner
• Africa and writing by Alain Ricard
• Ethiopian literature by Teodros Kiros
• African literature in Arabic by Farida Abu-Haidar
• The Swahili literary tradition: an intercultural heritage by Alamin M. Mazrui
• Africa and the European Renaissance by Sylvie Kandé
• The literature of slavery and abolition by Moira Ferguson
• Discourses of empire by Robert Eric Livingston
• African-language literatures of southern Africa by Daniel P. Kunene
• Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels by Ann Biersteker
• The emergence of written Hausa literature by Ousseina Alidou
• Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama by Karin Barber
• African literature and the colonial factor by Simon Gikandi
• The formative journals and institutions by Milton Krieger
• Literature in Afrikaans by Ampie Coetzee