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The annotated African American folktales / edited with a foreword, introduction, and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar

Foreword : The politics of "Negro folklore" / by Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction : Recovering a cultural tradition / by Maria Tatar -- AFRICAN TALES. Making sense of the world with Anansi : ...
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Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / Graham Connah

Reviewed by David W. Phillipson in Journal of African archaeology (Frankfurt am Main) 3 (1) 2005, page 171 (GN861.J68 AFA). Reviewed by Kenneth G. Kelly in African studied review (New Brunswick, NJ) ...
The Economist

Our Africa editor chooses five books, and one album, as an introduction to the great continent

Speak of Africa as a single entity, and many of its inhabitants will say testily that it is no such thing. Rightly so: lazy outsiders often lump together the 1.2bn people who live in Africa’s vast ...