Resources

* Note: These resources were culled from teacher lesson plans, as well as suggestions by faculty from the Institute, including Veronika Jenke (Curator of Education, National Museum of African Art) and Professor Ed DeCarbo.

BOOKS, ARTICLES, ETC.

Antubam, Kofi. Ghana’s Heritage of Culture. Leipzig, Germany: Koehler & Amelang,
1963.
Armento, Beverly J.; Cordova, Jacqueline M.; Klor de Alva, J. Jorge; Nash, Gary B.; Ng,
Franklin; Salter, Christopher L.; Wilson, Louis E.; and Karen Wixson. Across the
Centuries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 118-127.
Asare, Meshack. Kwajo and the Brassman’s Secret, A tale of old Ashanti wisdom and
gold. Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002.
Bisson, Michael S. Ancient African Metallurgy: The Sociocultural Content. Walnut
Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2000.
Bloom, Jonathan. Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.
Borgatti, Jean M. and Richard Brilliant. Likeness and Beyond; Portraits from the World.
New York: The Center for African Art, 1993.
Burnham, Harold B., Studies in Textile History. Royal Ontario Museum: Toronto, 1977.
Chipp, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
Clarke, Duncan. The Art of African Textiles. Berkeley, Calif.: Thunder Bay Press, 1997.
Clévenot, Dominique. Splendors of Islam: Architecture, Decoration, and Design. New
York: Vendome Press, 2000.
Diouf, Sylviane. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New
York: New York University Press, 1998.
Fox, Christine. Asante Brass Casting: Lost-wax casting of gold-weights, ritual vessels
and sculptures, with handmade equipment. Cambridge: African Studies Centre,
1988.
Garrard, Timothy F. Akan Weights and the Gold Trade. London and New York:
Longman Group Limited, 1980.
Gillow, John. African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent. London:
Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Graffenried, Charlotte. Akan Goldweights in the Berne Historical Museum. Bern,
Germany: Benteli Verlag, 1990.
Hale, Thomas A. Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music. Bloomington,
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Herreman, Frank. African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection. Belgium:
Snoeck, Ducaju & Zoon, 1997.
Gillow, John. African Textiles. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003.
Jefferson, Louise E. The Decorative Arts of Africa. New York: Viking Press, 1973.
Keen, Benjamin. A History of Latin America. 7th Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company,
2003.
Kleiner, F. S., D.M. Mamiya and R.G. Tansey. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. 11th ed.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.
Lunde, Paul. Islam. London: D.K. Publishers, 2002.
Meurant, Georges. Shoowa MotievenBrussel. Brussels: C. Van de Neste,
Gemeentekrediet, 1986.
Meurant, Georges and Robert Farris Thompson. Mbuti Design. Stuttgart: Staib and
Mayer, 1995.
Morris, James. Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 2004.
Naylor, Rachel. Ghan. Oxfam, GB, 2000.
Necipoglu, Gülru. Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: the Topkapi Palace in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Niane, D.T. Sundiata, An Epic of Old Mali. Longman Group Limited, Essex, England,
1965, p. 2, 41, 52. (Oral documents told by Griot Mamadou Kouyate)
Nitecki, Andre. Equal Measure for Kings and Commoners: Gold Weights of the Akan
from the Collections of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada. Calgary,
Canada: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1982.
Paredes, Américo. A Texas-Mexican Cancionero. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1976.
Parry, Linda. William Morris Textiles. New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
Prussin, Labelle. Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1986.
Rattray, R.S. Ashanti Proverbs. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1916.
Rovine, Victoria L. Bogolan: Shaping Culture Trough Cloth in Contemporary Mali.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2001.
Spring, Christopher. African Textiles: The Treasury of Decorative Art. Dubai: The
Oriental Press, 1997.
Trowell, Margaret. African Design. New York: Praeger, Inc., Publishers, 1960.

WEBSITES

African Masks

Architecture

Art (General)

Currency

Griot and Folk Tale

Ibn Battuta (Primary Source)

Japanese Connection

Mali (General)

Medieval Africa (General)

Mudcloth/Textiles

Music, Dance, and Drums

Photographs

Raisin in the Sun Connection

Teaching Resources (General)

GENERAL RESOURCES FROM ED DECARBO

Art and Aesthetics

Armstrong, R.P.  1971. The Affecting Presence.
Araeen, R., et.al., eds. 2002.  Third Test Reader on Art, Culture and Theory.
Calvino, Italo.  1974.  Invisible Cities.
Connelly, R.  1995.  The Sleep of Reason:  Primitivism in European Art and Aesthetics.
Fernie, E. 1995.  Art History and Its Methods (Oguibe,O. Heart of Darkness, pp 314-322)
Oguibe and Enwezor. 1999. Reading the Contemporary African Art Theory/Marketplace.
Phillips, T. 1996. Africa: Art of the Continent (Appiah. Why Africa? Why Art? pp 5-8)
Visona, M., et.al. 1996. The History of Art in Africa.
Vogel, S. 1986.  African Aesthestics (Introduction, pp xi-xvii)
_____.  1997. Baule:   African Art Western Eyes.

Time

Connah, G. 2001. African Civilizations: Precolonial States and Cities in Tropical Africa.
Garlake, P. 2002. Early Art and Architecture in Africa.
Insoll, T. 2004. Archaeology, Ritual, Religion.
Roberts and Roberts. 1996.  Luba Art and the Making of History.
Stahl, B., ed.  2005.  African Archaeology.

Ethnography

Arnold, M.J. 1995. Playing with Time:  Art and Performance in Central Mali.
Coleen, J.P. 2001.  Bamana:  Art of Existence in Mali.
Diata, S. 1997. Bamana Empire by the Niger 1712-1920.
McNaughton, P. 1988. Mande Blacksmiths.