September 27, 2006
Africa: International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier
International Migration has become a hot issue, especially among Africans in the wake of the problems West Africans have been having in the Canary Islands and Spain. A new book… Read more »
August 30, 2006
Africa: Women and Collective Action in Africa
Women and Collective Action in Africa Read more »
August 24, 2006
Ghana: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania
Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania Read more »
July 28, 2006
Southern Africa: Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors
Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors Read more »
April 06, 2005
Africa: African Authors to Speak at New York Literature Festival
The first-ever New York Festival of International Literature features writers from more than 45 countries, including African authors Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,… Read more »
November 10, 2004
Nigeria: Novel Explores Religion and Silence
Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chapel Hill:Algonquin, 2003. 320 pp. $16.77 cloth, $10.40 paper. 165123875 Read more »
Africa: Reporter Counters `Wrong-Headed' Notions About Conflict and Corruption
Howard French began writing about Africa in the early 1980s as a freelance journalist and professor based in Ivory Coast. After six years in West Africa, he took a permanent… Read more »
October 13, 2004
Nigeria: Author Explores Faith and Country in Acclaimed New Novel
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, has received much critical acclaim, having been short listed for the Orange Prize and long listed for the… Read more »
August 16, 2004
South Africa: Bittersweet Travels - A Journalist Comes to Terms with a Troubled Continent
Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey, by Lynne Duke. Doubleday, ©2003. $24.00 hardcover. Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday Read more »
April 23, 2004
Africa: Africa's Lost Decades - A Reporter's Lament
1 A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa Howard W. French April 23, 2004 Alfred A. Knopf Read more »
February 28, 2002
Africa: Panel Selects the Continent's 'Best Books'
After days of debate at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra, Ghana, a 17-person jury has selected the best 100 books from Africa written in the 20th century. They considered more than… Read more »
September 07, 2001
Africa: Africa's 100 Best Books
Approximately 1,700 nominations for 100 of Africa's best books of the 20th century have been received, according to a jury formed last month at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair… Read more »
February 02, 2001
Africa: Black History Month: Book Illustrates Links Between US Movements And Africa
Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Beacon Press Order from Amazon.com Read more »
Africa: Africa Helped Shape Our Consciousness
Toward the end of the 1960s, many of us who had been involved in the southern civil rights movement were looking for ideas. New ideas seemed scarce in America just at the moment we… Read more »