African Culture Project
	Selected Resources NCDS Library Reference REF/291.1/MER Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend. New York: Facts on File, 2007. Print. REF/909/HIS/v.9 History of the Ancient and Medieval World. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2009. Print. REF/910/ENC/v.17 Encyclopedia of World Geography. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002. Print. REF/960/MUR Murray, Jocelyn. Africa. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.Print. REF/9960/ENC Lye, Keith. Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations. Facts on File: New York, 2002. Print. REF/960/PEO Peoples of Africa. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2001. Print. REF/960.03/AFR Middleton, John. Africa: an encyclopedia for students. New York: Charles Scribner, 2002. Print. Nonfiction Resources Cultures of the World Series: African Countries 960/AND Anda, Michael O. Yoruba. New York: Rosen, 1996. Print. 966.2/ARM Armentrout, David and Patricia. Ghana, Mali, Songhay: Timelines of Ancient Civilizations. Florida: Rourke, 2004. Print. 966.83/BIC Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. Benin Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom. New Haven CT: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008. Print 966/CON Conrad, David C. Empires of Medieval West Africa. New York: Chelsea House, 2010. Print. 398.2/COU Courlander, Harold. The Cow-Tail Switch and other West African Stories. New York: Holt, 1974. Print. 398.2/FEA Ragan, Kathleen. Fearless girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters. New York: Norton, 1998. Print. 391.4/FIN Finley, Carol. The Art of African Masks. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1999. Print. 200.94/FRI Friedenthal, Lora and Dorothy Kavanaugh. Religions of Africa. Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2007. Print. 731.75096/HAH Hahner, Iris. African Masks: The Barbier-Mueller Collection. Munich: Prestel, 2010. Print. 398.2/HAM Hamilton, Virginia. Her Stories:African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, True Tales. New York: Scholastic, 1995. Print. 966.701/KOS Koslow, Philip. Asante: the Gold Coast. New York: Chelsea House, 1996. Print. 966.2/KOS Koslow, Philip. Songhay: the Empire Builders. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. Print. 299/LUG Lugira, Aloysius. African Religion World Religions. New York: Facts on File, 1999. Print. 299.61/SCH Schomp, Virginia. Myths of the World: the Ancient Africans. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2009. Print. 960/MUR Murray, Dr. Jocelyn. Cultural Atlas for Young People: Africa. New York: Chelsea House, 2007. Print. 960/OBA Obadina, Tunde. The Making of Modern Africa. Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2007. Print. 305.8/OBA Obadina, Elizabeth. Ethnic Groups in Africa. Philadelphia, Mason Crest, 2007. Print. 398.2/OFF Offodile, Buchi. The Orphan Girl and other stories: west African Folk Tales. New York: Interlink, 2001. Print.  Internet Resources Databases Oxford Art (for images) Britannica Online Grolier Online World Book Online Visual Geography World Geography World History: the Modern Era World History in Context Gale Virtual Reference Library  Websites Websites on Africa Africa on PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/index.html Story of Africa http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/ University of Iowa  http://www.gateway-africa.com   Websites on Tribes Every Culture.com http://www.everyculture.com/wc/index.html Yoruba art and culture http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/yoruba.html Igbo people http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/nigeria/origins.htm Art and Life in Africa http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html The Africa Guide- Overview of African Tribes http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/index.htm Renaissance of the Edo People http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/edopeople.htm Websites Art History Resources Timeline of Art History- Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=3 Art History Resources on the web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHafrica.html Websites on Types of African Art and its Uses Africa Culture Center http://www.africanculturalcenter.org/5_4culture.html British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/cultures/africa/africa_arts_and_cultures.aspx National Museum of African Art http://africa.si.edu/collections/view/objects/asimages/2936?t:state:flow=a67227ec-c023-492b-902c-c2a683f1a900 American Museum of Natural History- Masquerades http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/sokari/masq.html Information about the diviner’s bowl http://www.tribalartforum.org/essay_00001/essay.html Information about the shango staff http://www.ohiou.edu/~afrart/GalleryPageQ.html Information about the gelede http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/VirtualExhibitions/african/gelede_context.html Note: Some of these websites are fairly advanced. Skim them for the information you need.  If you find other websites, please ok them with your teacher before taking information from them.