Boston University African Studies Center 270 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (617) 353-3673 email: africa@bu.edu www.bu.edu/africa

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For Younger Children
Naidoo, Beverly: Journey to Jo’burg
Price, Leontyne: Aïda
Rappaport, Doreen: The New King
Stanley, Diane: Shaka

For Young Adults
Jansen, Hanna: Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Hansen Joyce: The Captive
Kurtz, Jane: The Storyteller’s Beads
Kurtz, Jane: Saba: Under the Hyena’s Foot
Lester, Julius: Time’s Memory
Lester, Julius and Pinkney, Jerry: The Old African
Naidoo, Beverly: Chain of Fire
Naidoo, Beverly: Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
Naidoo, Beverly: The Other Side of Truth
Ngugi wa Thiong’o in his short story collection Secret Live:s “The Return”
Vaught, Susan: Stormwitch
Wisniewski, David: Sundiata

For High School and Adults:
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun
Conde, Maryse: Segu
Conrad, David C. Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande Peoples
Dangarembga, Tsitsi: Nervous Conditions
Fugard, Athol: “Master Harold” and the Boys
Mahfouz, Naguib: Palace Walk
Maraire, J. Nozipo: Zenzele
Niane, D. T.:  Sundiata, An epic of old Mali
Ngugi wa Thiong’o—a series of 3 novels:
Weep Not, Child  (the best known of the 3)
The River Between
A Grain of Wheat
Ousmane, Sembene: God’s Bit of Wood
Oyono, Ferdinand: The Old Man and the Medal
Oyono, Ferdinand: Houseboy
Soyinka, Wole: Death and the King’s Horsemen

Barbara B. Brown, Ph.D.

For information about additional resources, please contact:

Barbara B. Brown, Outreach Director
Africa in the School and Community
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-7303 or 353-3673

NOTE: I endorse the 5 points (A-E) in this article. However, I would suggest modifying the first point (A): I believe it is appropriate to teach abouc Africa as an introduction to a unit. Given the enormous diversity of the continent, I recommend that classes focus on one country (or two if time permits). Countries with especially good teaching resources are Egypt, Kenya Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa

Barbara B. Brown, Outreach Director
Africa in the School and Community
Boston University