Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation, 2nd Edition

1. Jean and John Comaroff. 1991. “Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination

2. Cheikh Anta Diop. 1974. “The Meaning of Our Work,”

3. Kwame Anthony Appiah. 1993. “Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism

4. V.Y. Mudimbe. 1988. “Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness,”

II. From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization

5. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Nuer: Time and Space

6. Southall, Aidan W. The Illusion of Tribe

7. Vail, Leroy. Ethnicity in Southern African History

III. Economics as a Cultural System

8. Douglas, M. Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong

9. Coquery-Vidrovitch, C. Research on an African  Mode of Production

10. Hutchinson, S. The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, cf. Smith

IV. Hunter-Gatherers in Africa

11. Turnbull, C. M. The Lesson of the Pygmies

12. Grinker, R.R. Houses in the Rainforest

13. Wilmsen, E. Land Filled with Flies

14. Solway, J. S. and R. B. Lee. Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?

V. Witchcraft, Science and Rationality

15. Livingstone, D. Conversations on Rain-making

16. Evans-Pritchard, E.E. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events

17. Winch, P. Understanding a Primitive Society

18. Austen, Ralph A. 1993. “The Moral Economy of Witchcraft.”

VI. Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion

19. Griaule, M. Conversations with Ogotommeli

20. Houtondji, P. J. African Philosophy, Myth and Reality

21. Kopytoff, I. ancestors as Elders in Africa, cf. Lubkemann, West

VII. Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage

22. Simon Ottenberg. 1972. “Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo,”

23. Olu Oguibe. 1999. “Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art,”

24. Kelly M. Askew.  As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics and Social Change in Costal East Africa

25. Bayo Hosley. “In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity.”

VIII.Sex and Gender Studies in Africa

26. Boserup, E. The Economics of Polygamy

27. Van Allen, J. “Sitting on a Man”

28. LeClerc, S. Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic

IX. Europe in Africa: Colonization

29. Lugard, F.D. The Dual Mandate

30.Rodney, W. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

31. Ranger, T. The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa

32. Ngugi, W. T. Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary

X. Nations and Nationalism

33.Senghor, L. S. Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century

34. Fanon, F. On National Culture

35. Berman, B. Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau  

36. Steiner, C.B. The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Cote d’Ivoire

XI. Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement

37. Gluckman, Max. Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa

38. Richards, P. "Fighting for the Rainforest"

39. Taylor, C. Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994

40. Lubkemann, S. Where to be an Ancestor

XII. Development, Governance and Globalization

41. Ferguson, J. “Expectations of Modernity”

42. Uvin, P. Development Aid and Structural Violence: The case of Rwanda

43. Daniel J. Smith. “Culture of Corruption”

44. J.Francois-Bayart. “The Politics of the Belly.”

45. West, H. “ ‘Govern Yourselves’, Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique”

46. Shandy, D. “Nuer-American Passages”