Books

The required books are available from the UCI Bookstore, as well as through Amazon.com, bn.com, half.com and other retailers; they are also on reserve in Langson Library.

Ralph A. Austen. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Colin McEvedy. The Penguin Atlas of African History. Penguin Books, 1980.

Djibril Tamsir Niane. Sundiata : An Epic of Old Mali. Longman, 1965 (reprint, Longman  African Writers, 2000).

John Thornton. The Kongolese Saint Anthony : Dona Beatrix Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Articles, Book Chapters, and Excerpts

Susan Herlin Broadhead, “Slave Wives, Free Sisters: Bakongo Women and Slavery c. 1700-1850,” in Women and Slavery in Africa, ed. Claire Robertson and Martin Klein, 160-178. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Said Hamdun and Noel King, eds. Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1994.

Kairn Klieman, “The Pygmies Were Our Compass” Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003.

Peter Kolb, The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope. (orig. German edition, 1719)  New York & London: Johnson Reprint Commission, 1968, Vol I, p 84-90.

Paul Lane, “Breaking the Mould?: Exhibiting Khoisan in Southern African Museums.” Anthropology Today 12:5 (Oct. 1996): 3-10.

Karen E. Lange, “Eternal Djenne,” National Geographic 199:6 (June 2001), 100-117.

S.K. McIntosh and R. McIntosh, “Finding Jenne-Jeno: West Africa’s Oldest City,” National Geographic 162 (1982), 396-418.

Mary Rayner, “Wine and Slaves: The Failure of an Export Economy and the Ending of Slavery in the Cape Colony, South Africa, 1806-1835. Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1986, 174-189.

Robert Ross, Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, 105-16.

Paul Salopek, “Who Rules the Forest?” National Geographic 208:3 (September 2005), 74-99.

Anders Sparrman, A Voyage to The Cape of Good Hope…1772-1776. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1977, Vol. II, p. 130-134.

George McCall Theal, Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793, Vol. 20. London: Printed for the Government of the Cape Colony, 1897-1905.

H.B. Thom, ed., Journal of Jan van Riebeeck. Cape Town & Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema for the Van Riebeeck Society, 1954, Vol. 2:362-368.

Carl Peter Thunberg, Travels at the Cape of Good Hope, 1772-1775. (orig. English edition, 1793-95). Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1986, p 311-321, 290-294.

Patricia van der Spuy, “‘Making Himself Master’: Galant’s Rebellion Revisited,” South African Historical Journal 34 (1996), 1-28.

R.L. Watson, The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1990, 50-59.

Julia Wells, “Eva’s Men: Gender and Power in the Establishment of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-74,” Journal of African History 39 (1998), 417-437.