East and Central Africa

Africa after Modernism: Transitions in Literature, Media and Philosophy Janis Michael 280pp Routledge (UK).

African Alternatives ed Patrick Chabal , Ulf Engel and Leo de Haan 185pp Brill (Leiden).

Africa Bibliography 2006 ed T.A. Barringer 381pp Edinburgh Univ Press (UK).

Africa:A Guide to Reference Material John Mcllwaine 672pp Zell (UK) [first pub 1993].

African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson 774pp Blackwell Publishers (Malden, MA and Oxford).

African Literatures at the Millennium ed Arthur Drayton , Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka and Peter Ukpokodu 348pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures Tim Woods 336pp Manchester Univ Press (UK).

The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics: Oral and Written Culture in Africa and Beyond Karin Barber 286pp Cambridge Univ Press (UK).

Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa Andrew Apter 171pp Chicago Univ Press (Chicago).

The Colombia Guide to Central African Literature in English since 1945 Adrian Roscoe 328pp Columbia Univ Press (New York).

The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945 Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi 194pp Columbia Univ Press (New York).

Configuring the African World: Essays on Continental and Diasporic Literatures and Cultures Femi Ojo-Ade 299pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

Contemporary Africana Theory, Thought and Action: A Guide to Africana Studies ed Cleonora Hudson-Weems 466pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

On Africa: Scholars and African Studies ed Henning Melber 36pp Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden).

The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa Ruth Finnegan 258pp James Currey (UK).

Ordering the African Imagination: Essays on Culture and Literature Tanure Ojaide 184pp Malthouse Press (Lagos).

Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts ed Bill Ashcroft , Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin 292pp Routledge (UK) [ 2000; 2003].

Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing Vivian Yenika-Agbaw 160pp Routledge (UK).

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies ed John McLeod 252pp Routledge (UK).

Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast Kai Kreese 288pp Edinburgh Univ Press (Edinburgh).

Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya Shamsul Alam 249pp Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke).

Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis ed James Brennan and Andrew Burton 279pp Mkuki na Nyota Publishers (Dar es Salaam).

Mochama, Tony What If I Am a Literary Gangsta? 106pp Brown Bear Insignia ( Nairobi).

Chipasula, Frank Mkalawile On the Shoulders of the Mountain: A Selection of Poems 42mins EarthCDs (Makanda).

--- Whispers in the Wings: New and Selected Poems 97pp Mallory International (UK).

Mapanje, Jack Beasts of Nalunga 64pp Bloodaxe Books (UK).

Mbano, Zondiwe Beware Millipede 128pp Kachere Series (Zomba).

Phiri, Dudwa Desmond Let Us Fight for Africa:A Play Based on the John Chilembwe Rising of 1915 140pp Kachere Series (Zomba).

Kalu, Antonia ed The Rienner Anthology of African Literature 900pp Lynne Rienner (USA).

Lihamba, Amandina Women Writing Africa: The East Africa Region 478pp New York (Feminist Press).

Polewski, Patricia Kelly Zanzibar Kwa Heri 221pp Trafford (Victoria, Canada).

Wisner, Geoff ed A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books that Capture the Spirit of Africa 289pp Jacana Media (Johannesburg ).

Arruda, Suzanne Stalking Ivory: A Jade del Cameron Mystery 339pp New American Library ( New York).

Devenne, Francois Three Dreams on Mount Meru 207pp trans Lauren Yoder Toby ( New Milford).

Gachuhi, David Terrorists Hunter 214pp Daga Finder Enterprises (Murang'a).

Hamilton, Masha The Camel Bookmobile 308pp HarperCollins (New York).

Kamoche, Ken A Fragile Hope 121pp Salt Publishing (London).

Maillu, David Man from Machakos 149pp Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (Nairobi).

Naidoo, Beverly Burn my Heart 193pp Puffin (London).

Ndung'u, Muroki A Friend of the Court 348pp Focus Publications, (Nairobi) [1994 ; 2004].

Patterson, John Henry The Man-eaters of Tsavo 136pp Cosmo Classics (New York) [ 1986].

Santoro, Lara Mercy : A Novel 279pp Other Press (New York).

Shriver, Lionel Game Control 277pp Harper Perennial (New York) [1994 ].

Spires, Phillip Mission 428pp Libros International (Alicante, Spain).

Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi and Head, Bessie To Stir the Heart 109pp Feminist Press (New York).

Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi Wizard of the Crow 784pp Vintage (London) [2006 ].

Kabushenga, Solomon The Trouble Causer 192pp Fountain Publishers (Kampala).

Kyomuhendo, Goretti Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War Feminist Press 134pp ( New York).

Reed, Terri A Sheltering Heart 265pp Thorndike Press (Waterville).

Doherty, Berlie Abela : The Girl Who Saw Lions 255pp Andersen Press (UK).

Luguya, Joseph The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot 918pp Original Books (Silver Spring).

Thomas, Maria African Visas: A Novella and Stories 242pp SOHO Press (USA).

--- Antonia saw the Oryx First 296pp SOHO Press (USA).

--- Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage and Other Stories 232pp SOHO Press (USA).

Hayes, Margaret Safarini : Many Journeys 267pp Trafford (Victoria, BC).

Baseley, Shirley Africa, Deep in My Heart 142pp Athena Press (Twickenham).

DeWitt, Curt Here I Am Lord, Don't Send Me! 156pp Review and Herald Publ. Association (Hagerstown, MD ).

Eggers, Dave What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng 475pp Hamish Hamilton (London).

FitzGerald, Desmond Many Parts: The Life and Travels of a Soldier, Engineer and Arbitrator in Africa and Beyond 288pp Radcliffe Press (London).

Ford, Helen Kersey and Esther Ford Andersen The Steps of a Good Man Are Ordered by the Lord , Psalm 37:23: A Biography of Jefferson W. Ford 1879-1949 208pp Allegheny Publications (Salem) [ 1976].

Gallmann, Kuki I Dreamed of Africa 315pp Penguin Books (London) [ 1991; 2000].

Hirsi, Ayaan Ali Infidel 353pp Free Press (New York).

Hofmann, Corinne Reunion in Barsaloi 224pp Bliss (London) [2006 ].

--- The White Maasai 307pp Trans. Peter Millar Amistad (New York) [2005 ].

--- Back from Africa 173pp Arcadia (London).

Kamiri, Martin A Biography of Kamiri wa Waitherero 58pp CUEA Publications ( Nairobi).

Kapur-Dromson, Neera From Jhelum Tana 433pp Penguin Books (New Delhi).

Lewis, Gregg Miracle at Tenwek: The Life of Dr. Ernie Steury 312pp Discovery House Publishers (Grand Rapids MI).

Maathai, Wangari Unbowed : A Memoir 314pp William Heinemann (London) [2006 ].

Maitland, Alexander Wilfred Thesiger : The Life of the Great Explorer 528pp Harper Perennial ( London) [2006].

Miles, Roston Taking Away the Distance: A Young Orphan's Journey and the AIDS Epidemic in Africa 242pp Carroll & Graf (New York).

Njuno, Phinehas Njeru Swimming Against the Culture of Corruption 152pp P.N. Njuno ( Nairobi).

Obama, Barack Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 442pp Crown Publishers (New York) [1995].

Thomas, Barbara Through the Outhouse Floor and Other Real Adventures of Missionary Life 241pp Universe ( New York).

Waihenya, Waithaka The Mediator: Gen. Lazaro Sumbeiywo and the Southern Sudan Peace Process 208pp East African Educational Publishers (Nairobi).

Wheeler, Sara Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton 304pp Vintage ( London) [2006].

Anguria, Omongole Apollo Milton Obote : What Others Say 225pp Fountain Publishers (Kampala) [2006 ].

Cozza, Peter Kunda : The Story of a Child Soldier 80pp Paulines Publications ( Nairobi).

Crowe, Seamus The Ugandan Letters of Seamus Crowe: September 2004- August 2006 192pp Athena Press ( London).

Faupel, John African Holocaust: The Story of the Uganda Martyrs 272pp Paulines Publications Africa (Nairobi).

Kiguli, Susan and Violet Barungi eds I Dare to Say 106pp Femrite Publications ( Kampala).

Sweikar, Michael Mzungu: A Notre Dame Student in Uganda 156pp Cold Tree Press ( Nashville, TN).

Weiss, S.C. The Girl and the War: The Story of a Child Soldier 143pp Brendow (Moers).

B owling, John Making the Climb: What a Novice Climber Learned about Life on Mount Kilimanjaro 191pp Beacon Hill Press (Kansas City).

Hirsch, Susan In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief and a Victim's Quest for Justice 296pp Princeton Univ Press (Princeton, NJ) [ 2006].

Kassum, Al Noor Africa's Winds of Change: Memoirs of an International Tanzanian 163pp I.B. Taurus ( London and New York).

McDonnell, Faith Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children 38pp Chosen ( Grand Rapids).

Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era 719pp New Africa Press ( Pretoria).

Othman, Haroub Sites of Memory: Julius Nyerere and the Liberation Struggle of Southern Africa 93pp Zanzibar International Film Festival (Zanzibar).

Roell, Eberhard Piercing the Night:A Life on the Edge in Post-Amin Uganda 344pp Trafford ( Victoria, BC).

Chirwa,Vera Mlangazuwa Fearless Fighter: An Autobiography 208pp Zed Books ( London and New York).

Lane, Stewart Peculiar Honours: A Missionary Adventure in Malawi 160pp Dudu Nsomba Publications (Glasgow).

Phipson, Shirley Nyasaland and Our Lifetime Memories 227pp self-pub (Glasgow).

Stephens, Richard and Suzi Stephens Swimming Upstream 286pp Cornerstone Communications (Indianapolis, IN).

Wainaina, Binyavanga Kwani? 4448pp Kwani Trust (Nairobi).

`Debating the Language of African Literature: Ethiopian Contributions' Roger Kurtz Journal of African Cultural Studies 19(2) pp187-205.

Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film eds Ada Azodo and Maureen Eke 332pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa Kimani Njogu and Herve Maupeu 420pp Kiki na Nyota Publishers (Dar es Salaam).

Swahili beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language and Identity Alamin Mazrui 206pp Ohio Univ Press (Athens).

Theatre, Performance and New Media in Africa eds Susan Arndt , Eckhard Breitinger and Marek von Brisinski 222pp Bayreuth African Studies Series (Bayreuth).

Women's Spaces, Women'sVisions: Politics, Poetics and Resistance in African Women's Drama Katiwa Mule 322pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

Words and Worlds: African Writing, Theatre and Society eds Susan Arndt and Katrin Berndt 402pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

`Biography of a Trade Unionist and the Resurrection of the "Indian Question" in Twenty-First Century Kenya' Tom Odhiambo Social Dynamics 33(2) pp86-104.

`Contested Identities in Matatu Art' Mbugua wa-Mungai Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp20-22 [see Journals, Special Issues].

` Cosmopolitan Nativism and the (Re)Invention of Tradition in the Music of Nairobi City Ensemble' Joyce Nyairo and James Ogude Bayreuth African Studies Series (82) pp95-132.

` Ethnic Identity in Kenya: The Search for Ethnic Nationhood in a Cyber Age ' Tom Odhiambo Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp15-19 [see Journals, Special Issues].

`"Is Marwa!" It's Ours: Popular Music and Identity Politics in Kenyan Youth Culture' Mbugua wa-Mungai pp47-59 Art, Culture and Society (1) [see Journals, Special Issues].

` Joseph Kamaru: Contending Narrations of Kenya's Politics through Music' Maina Mutonya pp27-46 Art, Culture and Society (1) [see Journals, Special Issues].

`Juvenile Delinquency and Violence in the Fiction of Three Kenyan Writers' Tom Odhiambo Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 44(2) pp134-49.

` Kenyan Youth and the Entropic Destruction of a Hopeful Social Order' Bantu Mwaura pp63-74 Art, Culture and Society (1) [see Journals, Special Issues].

` Life Seen: Touch and Vision in the Making of Sex in Western Kenya' Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Prince Journal of Eastern African Studies 1(1) pp123-49.

`Mahewa: Negotiating Youth Identity through Rap Music in Kenya' Peter Wafula Wekesa Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp33-37 [see Journals, Special Issues].

` Mchongoano Verbal Duels: Risky Discourse and Sociocultural Commentary' Peter Githinji pp89-110 Art, Culture and Society (1) [see Journals, Special Issues].

`Merchant-Kings and Everymen: Narratives of the South Asian Diaspora of East Africa' Stephanie Jones Journal of Eastern African Studies 1(1) pp16-33.

`Music, Identity and Swahili Networks of Knowledge' Mwenda Ntarangwi pp7-26 Art, Culture and Society (1) [see Journals, Special Issues].

`Mwongozo - The Study Guide to Swahili Literary Works: Its Role as a Component in Education in Kenya' Sam Khamis Research in African Literatures 38(4) pp217-26.

` The Nature of Decline: Distinguishing Myth from Reality in the Case of the Luo of Kenya' Lesa Morrison Journal of Modern African Studies 45(1) pp117-42.

` Partnering for Social Change: Exploring Relationships between Musicians and Organizations in Nairobi, Kenya' K.N Van Buren Ethnomusicology Forum 16(2) pp303-26.

``Politics, Popular Culture and Livelihood Strategies among Young Men in a Nairobi Slum' Bodil Folke Frederiksen pp73-94 in African Alternatives [See General Criticism, Regional].

`(Re)Configuring the City: The Mapping of Places and People in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Song Texts' Joyce Nyairo in Cities in Contemporary Africa ed Martin Murray and Garth Myers Palgrave (New York) pp71-94.

` Sexual Anxieties and Rampant Masculinities in Postcolonial Kenyan Literature ' Tom Odhiambo Social Identities 13(5) pp651-63.

` The Truth Be Told: Stereoscopic Photographs, Interviews and Oral Tradition from Mount Kenya' Godfrey Muriuki and Neal Sobania Journal of Eastern African Studies 1(1) pp1-15.

` Tusker Project Fame: Ethnic States, Popular Flows' Mbugua wa Mungai Journal of Eastern African Studies 1(2) pp338-58.

` Voices from the Margins. Centring the Periphery through Communication: The Case of TFD in Kenya' Christopher Odhiambo Bayreuth African Studies Series (82) pp69-78.

`Whites in Africa: Kenya's Colonists in the Films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White Mischief' Nigel Penn Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen ed Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn pp167-84 James Currey (Oxford), Ohio Univ Press (Athens) and Double Storey (Cape Town) [2006].

` "Women's Pages" in Kenya's Newspapers: Implications for the Country's Development ' Nancy Gakahu and Lynette Lusike Gender and Development 15(3) pp425-34.

`FEMRITE and the Woman Writer's Position in Uganda: Personal Reflections' Susan Kiguli in Words and Worlds [See General Criticism, Regional].

`To be an African Woman Writer: Joys and Challenges' Goretti Kyomuhendo in Words and Worlds [See General Criticism, Regional].

years of ZIFF Fatma Alloo 119pp Gallery Productions and Zanzibar International Film Festival (Zanzibar).

` The Changing Face of Tanzanian Theatre: The Impact of Market Economy on Tanzanian Rural Theatre' Frowin Paul Nyoni Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp46-50 [see Journals, Special Issues].

Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present Jan Bender Shetler 378pp Ohio Univ Press (Athens).

` Mimi ni Msanii, Kioo Cha Jamii: Urban Youth Culture in Tanzania as seen through Bongo Fleva and Hip-hop' Maria Suriano Swahili Forum (14) pp207-23.

`Msitu Mpya, Komba Wapya: Change of Political Landscapes and the Swahili Novel' Khamis A.M Said in Words and Worlds [See General Criticism, Regional].

Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage Laura Edmondson 175pp Indiana Univ Press (Bloomington).

`Theatre for Development in Combat against HIV/AIDS among Secondary School Girls in Tanzania' Frowin Paul Nyoni in Words and Worlds [See General Criticism, Regional].

Aids Artists and Authors: Popular Responses to the Epidemic: 1985-2006 Steve Chimombo 226pp WASI Publications ( Zomba).

`Dance Band Music and the Bible in Post-1994 Malawi' Mufunanji Magalasi Bayreuth African Studies Series (82) pp145-60.

Mazrui, Alamin `Reflections on Intellectual Life and Knowing as a Problem in Alamin Mazrui's Shadows of the Moon' Ken W. Walibora Art, Culture and Society (1) pp217-244 [see Journals: Special Issues].

Sibi-Okumu, John `Tracking the Psyche of the Nation: A Psychoanalytic Reading of John Sibi-Okumu's Role Play' Fred Mbogo Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp64-7 [see Journals: Special Issues].

Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi African Literature as Political Philosophy M.S. Okolo 166pp Zed Books ( New York and London).

---` Behind Bars: Ngugi, Women and the Rite/Right of Passage' Garnette Oluoch-Olunya Art, Culture and Society (1) pp75-88 [see Journals, Special Issues].

---` Gender, Unreliable Narration and the Untranslated Preface in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross' Evan Mwangi Research in African Literatures 38(4) pp28-46.

--- Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An Anthology of Recent Criticism Mala Pandurang 232pp Pencraft International (New Delhi).

--- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Drama and the Kamiriithu Popular Theatre Experiment Josphat G. Ndigirigi 308pp Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ).

---` The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong'os Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross' Chijioke Uwasomba Journal of Pan African Studies 1(6) pp94-108.

Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi and wa Mirii, Ngugi `A Drama of Songs: The Ironic and Satiric Implications in Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii's I Will Marry When I Want' Bayreuth African Studies Series (82) pp79-94.

Zweig, Stefanie `Memories of Africa: Stefanie Zweig's Autobiographical Works' Karin U. Schestokat AUMLA: Journal of Australasian Universities Modern Language Association pp51-65.

P'Bitek, Okot `Is Lawino Dead? A Discourse on East African Aesthetics' Odoch Pido Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp38-43 [see Journals, Special Issues].

---` Lawino is Alive and Well: A True-Life Epilogue' Donna Pido Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2) pp44-46 [see Journals, Special Issues].

Mapanje,Jack Orality and Subversion in Jack Mapanje's Of Chameleons and Gods Reuben M. Chirambo International Fiction Review 34 pp79-92.

---` Subverting Banda's Dictatorship in Malawi: Orality as Counter-Discourse in Jack Mapanje's Of Chameleons and Gods' Reuben M. Chirambo Ariel 38 (2/3) pp139-58.

Art, Culture and Society (1): special issue Cultural Production and Social Change in Kenya: Building Bridges ed Kimani Njogu and Garnette Oluoch-Olunya 260pp.

Jahazi: Journal of Culture, Arts and Performance 1(2): special issue Articulating Identities ed Bantu Mwaura 74pp.