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ART, CULTURE & RELIGION

Bernstein, Henry. For Their Triumphs & For Their Tears. IDAF, 1985. RECOMMENDED

Huntington, Richard. Gender and Social Structure in Madagascar. Indiana U., 1987.

Leshama, The old People say!: The Wisdom of the Forefathers in Setswana Proverbs. Van Schaik, 1999.

Nzenza-Shand, Sekai, Songs To An African Sunset: A Zimbabwean Story. Lonely Planet Publications, 1997. RECOMMENDED

Shostak, Majorie. Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman. Harvard Univ. Pr., 1981.

HISTORY & ECONOMICS

Barnard, Alan. Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples, Vol. 85. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.

Hanlon, Joseph. Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa. Indiana Univ., 1988.

Hoagland, Jim, South Africa: Civilizations in Conflict. Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

Kent, Raymond K. Early Kingdoms in Madagascar: 1500-1700. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1970.

Mandela, Nelson, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. New York: Little, Brown & Co, October 1995.

Marquard, Leopold. The Story of South Africa. Faber & Faber, 1966.

Marquard, Leopold. The Peoples & Policies of South Africa. Oxford, 1969.

Millard, A., ed. Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa. Random House, 1978.

Mutibwa, Phares M. Malagasy and the Europeans. Longman, 1974.

Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi, Seeking Freedom. Windhoek: New Namibia Books, 1997. 200 pp. Namibia, Zambia, Angola.

Norman, Andrew, Robert Mugabe and the Betrayal of Zimbabwe. McFarland, 2004.

Omen-Cooper, John D. Zulu Aftermath: A Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Bantu Africa. Northwestern Univ., 1966.

Sachs, B. The Road From Sharpville. Marzani & Munsell, 1961.

Smith, D. & Simpson, C. Mugabe. Sphere Books, 1981.

Worth, Richard. Robert Mugabe - Zimbawe. Silver Bur, 1990.

MODERN LITERATURE

Abrahams, Peter. Mine Boy. Heinemann, 1963. (South Africa; a country man adjusts to a large industrial city.)

Brink, Andre P. & Coetzee, J.M., ed. Land Apart: A South African Reader. Penguin, 1986.

Chimomvo, S. Malawian Oral Literature, Ctr for Social Reseaarch, Univ of Malawi, 1988.

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. Women's Press, 1988. (Zimbabwe; school girls struggle as they replace their culture with the colonial culture.) RECOMMENDED

Davis, Jean. South Africa: A Botched Civilization?: Racial Conflict and Identity in Selected South African Novels. Univ. Press of America, 1997.

Head, Bessie. Collector of Treasures. Heinemann, 1979. (Botswana; village setting.).

Head, Bessie. Maru. Heinemann, 1972. (Botswana; a woman of the untouchable class is raised by missionaries to have pride and challenges tradition.).

Head, Bessie. A Quesion of Power. Heinemann (Botswana), 1990.

Head, Bessie. Serowe: Village of the Rain-Wind, Vol. 220. Heinemann, 1981.

Head, Bessie. When Rain Clouds Gather. Heinemann  (Botswana), 1996.

Honwana, Luis Bernardo, We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories. Zimbabwe Pub, 1987 (Stories from Mozambique)

Kachingwe, Aubrey. No Easy Task. Heinemann, 1966 (Malawi).

La Guma, Alex. Time of the Butcherbird. Heinemann, 1979 (South Africa; life in a small Bantustan community as it moves toward tragedy.)

La Guma, Alex. Walk in the Night and Other Stories. Heinemann.

La Guma, Alex. In the Fog of the Season's End. Heinemann.

La Guma, Alex. Stone Country. Heinemann.

La Guma, Alex; Matthews, Rive & Alf Wannenburgh. Quartet. Heinemann, 1965 (Four voices from South Africa.).

Lessing, Doris. Grass Is Singing. Heinemann, 1973 (Rhodesia; the struggle of a white farm family and the work of the black "houseboy".)

Mulaisho, Dominic. Tongue of the Dumb. Heinemann, 1971 (Zambia; a village rivalry pulls in religion, politics and superstition.)

Mullvihill, William. Sands of Kalahari. Putnam's Sons, 1960.

Mzamane, Mbulelo., ed. Hungry Flames: And Other Black South African Short Stories. Longman, 1986 (Black South African short stories.)

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. Scribners, 1948 (South Africa; a classic)

Pepetela, Mayombe. Zimbabwe Pub, 1983 (A novel from Angola)

Rive, Richard. Advance, Retreat: Selected Short Stories. St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Samkange, Stanlake. On Trial for My Country. Heinemann, 1966 (Zimbabwe; a historical novel on the empire-building of Rhodes, Moffat, Jameson and others.) RECOMMENDED

Samkange, Stanlake. Year of the Uprising. Heinemann, 1978 (Zimbabwe; a historical novel set at the time of the death of Lobengula and the uprising of 1896.) RECOMMENDED

Sassine, W. Wirriyamu. Heinemann, 1980 (Mozambique; a historical novel based on the massacre of Wirriyamu by Portuguese soldiers in December 1972.)

Scanlon, Paul A., (ed.) Stories from Central and Southern Africa, Heinemann, 1983.

Sepamla, Sipho. Ride on the Whirlwind. Heinemann, 1981 (South Africa; set during the tension, turbulence and confusion of the June 1976 riots in Soweto.)

Sikakame, J. A Window on Soweto. IDAF, 1977 (a personal account of Soweto.)

Vambe, L. Ill-Fated People. Heinemann, 1972 (Zimbabwe: history & values.)

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