Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2020: Africa's Wildlife

A field guide to the wildlife of Southern Africa, describing over 2,000 plants and animals, with clear illustrations in full color. Features range maps for most groups.

Thapar illustrates his diary with 200 color photographs that document his experience tracking wildlife in Ol ari Nyiro, a 98,000 acre wildlife preserve in northern Kenya.

Official journal of the Southern African Wildlife Management Association. Archive of volumes available through the Franklin Catalog or through this url

Connor combines ethnography and political history to shows the unique alignment of farmers, landowners, and conservationists in the Sundays River Valley.

Explores elements of African culture and ideas, indigenous and modern, and how they have evolved through the ages to shape modern Africa.

Ubuntu is a word from the Nguni language that has the meaning of behaving well towards others or acting in ways that benefit the community. It is associated with both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In Stuit's book, she examines this concept of Ubuntu and its present relevance in both South African and Western contexts through an analysis of its political and ethical ramifications.
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Reader brings to light Africa's geology and evolution, the array of its landforms and environments, the diversity of its peoples and their ways of life, the legacies of slavery and colonialism as well as recent political successes and failures.

Meredity narrates the history of African nations emerging from colonialism. He focuses on key personalities, eventsx and themes of the independence era.

A moving account of Mandela's life from his childhood to his inauguration as the president of South Africa in May 1994.

In his classic novel,Achebe tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a strong man of an Ibo village in Nigeria.

Habilia presents a diverse collection of short stories from across the African continent. Habila brings together younger, newer writers, who appear alongside some of their older, more established peers providing a picture of a continent in transition.

A romantic comedy of sorts in which the changing face of post-apartheid South Africa is revealed.

This book illuminates West, Southern, and Central African cuisine to offer an understanding of how the African peoples grow, cook, and eat food and how they celebrate occasions and ceremonies with foods.

McCann describes how the ingredients, the practices, and the varied tastes of African cuisine represent gendered knowledge practiced and evolving in households across the human and ecological landscape.

Treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

Delafosse explores the origins of the varieties of artistic expressions from the African continent.

Through his photography, Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926) molded the European's image of African wildlife. He documented the fascinating animal and plant world with almost scientific accuracy. This volume offers a comprehensive portrait of Kuhnert's unusual life

In this history of 5000 years of African art, Garlake portrays the continents artistic diversity.

This work describes Daphne and David Sheldrick's campaign to end poaching and to conserve Kenya's wildlife. It also highlights their unique approach to working with wildlife and especially their work raising orphans so that they can be returned to the wild.

Nick Steele is a central figure in the booming business of private wildlife conservationin South Africa. Through diary entries and other documentation, Wels provides a detailed portrait of this sometimes controversial figure.

The African wild dog is one of the world's most endangered large carnivores. This comprehensive study concentrates on why wild dogs fare poorly in protected areas that maintain otherwise healthy populations of other top carnivores.

Achebe and Robertson explore the ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present.

This book introduces many women who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures.

This book brings together new household and enterprise data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to inform policy makers and practitioners on ways to expand women entrepreneurs' economic opportunities.