On this page, we have tried to answer the question "Which are the books I would recommend on a specific topic, be it an ethnic group, a region ...?. In some cases, these books are very well known; but often, they are a bit obscure for the non-specialist. Nearly always they are out of print, though. So, if you want to find and buy that book, we have inserted an hyperlink to the Abebook website. As far as I know, this is by far the most comprehensive source for finding old or rare books.

 

For the time being, this page covers only Africa. I have a separate page for Amazonian art. There is a voluntary bias towards the more recent and more easily available titles. We have not included books on prehistory, classical antiquity, islamic, colonial or airport art. Contemporary art will have its own separate section.

 

This selection is organized geographically from North to West to Central to East and to South Africa. A more comprehensive list is on the My Library page.

 

 

 

Africa

1. North Africa

 

1.1. Morocco

Becker, Cynthia Jeanne, Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity, Austin, TX:University of Texas Press, 2006

Boele, Vincent (ed.), Morocco: 5000 Years of Culture, Burlington, VT:Lund Humphries, 2005

GRAMMET, Ivo & Min DE MEERSMAN, Splendeurs du Maroc, Tervuren:Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, 1998

 

1.2. Algeria

, Broderie d'Alger: florilège de soie, Paris:Institut du Monde Arabe, 1992

NACIB, Y. & A. BENDEDDOUCHE, Musées d'Algérie II L'art populaire et contemporain, Alger:Ministère de la Culture et de l’Information, 1973

 

1.3. Tunisia

, Noces tissées, noces brodées: costumes et parures féminins de Tunisie, Paris:Musée National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1995

 

1.4. Lybia

 

1.5. Egypt

Ammoun, Denise, Crafts of Egypt, Cairo:The American University in Cairo Press, 1991

Parker, Ann and Avon Neal, Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimage, Washington, DC and London:Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995

 

1.6. Mauritania

, Mauritanie: Terre des Hommes, Bordeaux:Ville de Bordeaux, 1993

SARGOS, Catherine & Patrick, Arts et traditions d'Afrique, du profane au sacré (Includes a chapter on Mauritanian coffers), Paris:Hazan, 2010

 

 

2. West Africa

 

2.1 Senegal and Gambia

Bayo, Abdoulie, Traditional Crafts in the Gambia, Banjul:n.p., 1992

Mark, Peter, The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1992

 

2.2 Mali

 

2.2.1 Archeology

DEVISSE, Jean et al., Vallées du Niger, Paris:Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993

de GRUNNE, Bernard, Djenne-Jeno, 1000 ans de sculpture en terre cuite au Mali, Bruxelles:Mercator, 2014

 

2.2.2 Bamana

BRETT-SMITH, Sarah C., The Making of Bamana Sculpture.. Creativity and Gender, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1994

COLLEYN, Jean-Paul (dir.), Bamana. Un art et un savoir-vivre au Mali, NY, Zürich, Gent:Museum for African Art, Museum Rietberg, Snoeck-Decaju, 2002

HOMBERGER, Lorenz & Jean-Pierre COLLEYN, Ciwara. Chimères africaines, Paris:Musée du Quai Branly, 2006

ZAHAN, Dominique, Antilopes du soleil. Arts et rites agraires d'Afrique Noire, Vienne:Schendl, 1980

 

2.2.3 Dogon

SPINI, Tito & Sandro, Toguna Dogon. The African Dogon "House of Men, House of Words", New York:Rizzoli, 1977

LELOUP, Hélène, Dogon, Paris:Somogy, Musée du Quai Branly, 2011

 

2.3 BurkinaFaso

BOGNOLO, Daniela, Lobi, Milano:5 Continents, 2007

BOGNOLO, Daniela, Les Gan du Burkina Faso. Reconstitution de l'histoire et de la symbolique d'une royauté méconnue, Genève:Fondation culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller, 2010

KAMER, Henri A., Haute-Volta, Bruxelles:Studio 44, 1973

LE MOAL, Guy, Masques bobo. Vie, formes et couleurs, Paris:Biro, 2008

MEYER, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich:Museum Rietberg, 1981

ROY, Christopher, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Meudon:Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1987

ROY, Christopher D. & Thomas G.B. WHEELOCK, Land of the Flying Masks. Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection, Munich, New York:Prestel, 2007

SCHWEEGER-HEFEL, Annemarie, Masken und Mythen. Sozialstrukturen der Nyonyosi und Sikomse in Obervolta, Wien:A. Schendl, 1980

SCHWEEGER-HEFEL, Annemarie & Wilhelm STAUDE, Die Kurumba von Lurum, Wien:Schendl, 1972

 

2.4 Niger

DEVISSE, Jean et al., Vallées du Niger, Paris:Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993

HUGOT, Henri & Maximilien BRUGGMANN, Sahara. Art rupestre, Yverdon:Editions de l'Amateur, 1999

 

2.5 Guinea

LAMP, Frederick, Art of the Baga. A Drama of Cultural Reinvention., New York & München:The Museum of African Art & Prestel-Verlag, 1996

 

2.6 Liberia

CAREY, Neil, Masks of the Koranko Poro. Form, Function and Comparison to the Toma, Amherst, MA:Ethnos Publications, 2007

CARINI, Vittorio, Le maschere dei Toma/Loma, Udine:Gaspari, 2009

GAISSEAU, Pierre-Dominique, Forêt sacrée. Magie et rites secrets des Toma, Paris:Albin Michel, 1953

Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk,Bortolot, Alexander, Visions from the Forest: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone , Minneapolis:Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2014

Harley, George W, Notes on the Poro in Liberia. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Vol. XIX No. 2., Cambridge, MA:Peabody Museum, 1941

Harley, George W, Masks as Agents of Social Control in Northeast Liberia. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Vol. XXXII No. 2., Cambridge, MA:Peabody Museum, 1950

 

2.7 SierraLeone

FAGG, W.P., Afro-Portuguese Ivories, London:Batchworth Press,

Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk,Bortolot, Alexander, Visions from the Forest: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone , Minneapolis:Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2014

PHILLIPS, Ruth B., Representing Woman. Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone, Los Angeles:UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 195

TAGLIAFERRI, Aldo & HAMMACHER, Arno, Die steinernen Ahnen, alte Steinplastik aus Sierra Leone & Guinea (original : Fabulous Ancestors), Graz:Akademische Druck-u. Verlaganstalt, 1974

 

2.8 Guinea Bissau

GALLOIS DUQUETTE, Danielle, Dynamique de l'art bidjogo (Guinée-Bissau). Contribution à une anthropologie de l'art des sociétés africaines., Liboa:Instituto de Investigaçoeo Cient¡fica Tropical, 1983

BERNATZIK, Hugo A., Äthiopen des Westens. Forschungsreisen in Portugiesisch-Guinea, Wien:Seidel & Sohn, 1933

 

2.9 Ivory Coast

AUBRY, Noëlle et al., Corps sculptés, corps parés, corps masqués. Chef d'oeuvre de Côte d'Ivoire, Paris:Association Française d'Action Artistique, 1989

BARBIER, Jean-Paul (éd.), Arts de la Côte d'Ivoire dans les collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève:Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1993

BLACKMUN VISONÀ, Monica, Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire, Farnham, Surrey:Ashgate, 2010

BOYER, Alain-Michel, Baule , Milano:5 Continents, 2008

FISCHER, Eberhard, Guro. Masks, Performances and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast, Munich, New York:Prestel, 2008

FISCHER, Eberhard & Hans HIMMELHEBER, The Arts of the Dan in West Africa, Zürich:Museum Rietberg, 1984

FISCHER, Eberhard & Lorenz HOMBERGER, Afrikanische Meister.Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich:Scheidegger & Spiess, 2014

GOLDWATER, Robert, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, New-York:Museum of Primitive Art, 1964

GAGLIARDI, Susan Elizabeth, Senufo Unbound. Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa, Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014

GOTTSCHALK, Burkhard & Patrick GIRARD, Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf:Gottschalk, 2002

NEYT, François, Trésors de la Côte d'Ivoire, Bruxelles:Fonds Mercator, 2014

SCANZI, Giovanni Franco, La statuaire Akan de Côte d'Ivoire. Akan Statuary of Côte d'Ivoire, :Tribaleglobale, 2010

VANDENHOUTE, P.J.L., Classification stylistique du masque Dan et Guéré de la Côte d'Ivoire occidentale, Leiden:E.J. Brill, 1948

VOGEL, Susan M., Baule. African Art, Western Eyes, New Haven and London:Yale University Press, 1997

 

2.10 Ghana

BRAVMANN, René A., Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1980 [1974]

GARRARD, Timothy F., Or d'Afrique, Bijoux et parures du Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali et Sénégal de la Collection du Musée Barbier-Mueller, Paris:Hazan, 1990

COLE, Herbert M. and Doran H. ROSS, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles:Museum of Cultural History / University of California, 1977

NIANGORAN-BOUAH, G., L'univers akan des poids à peser l'or, Abidjan:Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines -MLB,

 

2.11 Togo

AMROUCHE, Pierre & Amadou THIAM, Art Moba du Togo, Paris, Lomé:Galerie Amrouche, Galerie Yassine, 1991

PARODI di PASSANO, Giovanna (a cura di), Évhé-Ouatchi. Un'estetica del disordine, Milano:Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 2004

Zwernemann, Jürgen, Leo Frobenius (Begr.) Beatrix Heintze (Hg.) , Studien zur Kultur der Moba ( Nord-Togo), Köln:Rüdiger Köppe, 1998

 

2.12 Benin

BEAUJEAN-BALTZER, Gaëllle, Artistes d'Abomey, Paris:Musée du Quai Branly, 2012

FREYER, Bryna, Asen. Iron Altars from Ouidah, Republic of Benin, Washington, DC:National Museum of African Art, 1993

HÜBNER, Irene et al., Geest en Kracht. Vodun uit West-Afrika, Berg en Dal:Afrika Museum, 1996

 

2.13 Nigeria

MARTIN, Jean-Hubert et al., Arts du Nigéria. Collection du Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris:Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997

 

2.13.1 Archeology

de GRUNNE, Bernard, Naissance de l'art en Afrique noire. La statuaire Nok au Nigéria, Paris, Luxembourg:Adam Biro, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, 1998

DREWAL, Henry John & Enid SCHILDKROUT, Kingdom of Ife. Sculptures from West Africa, London:British Museum Publications, 2009

SHAW, Thurstan, Igbo-Ukwu. An Account of Archeological Discoveries in Eastern Nigeria, Evanston:Northwestern University Press, 1970

 

2.13.2 Benin

PLANKENSTEINER, Barbara (ed), Benin, Kings and Rituals. Court Arts from Nigeria., Wien:Museum für Völkerkunde, 2007

 

2.13.3 Yoruba

DOBBELMANN, Th. A.H.M., Der Ogboni-Geheimbund. Bronzen aus Südwest-Nigeria., Berg en Dal:Afrika Museum, 1976

DREWAL, John & John PEMBERTON III, Yoruba. Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York:The Center for African Art, 1989

LAWAL, Babatunde, Yoruba, Milano:5 Continents, 2012

 

2.13.4 Delta area

ALLISON, Philip, Cross River Monoliths, Lagos:Department of Antiquities, 1968

ANDERSON, Martha G. & Philip M. PEEK (eds), Ways of the Rivers. Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta, Los Angeles:UCLA, 2002

BARLEY, Nigel, Foreheads of the Dead. An Anthropological View of Kalabari Ancestral Screens, Washington:National Museum of African Art, 1988

BOSTON, John S., Ikenga figures among the north-west Igbo and the Igala, London:Ethnographica, 1977

COLE, Herbert M., Igbo, Milano:5 Continents, 2013

COLE, Herbert M. & Chike C. ANIANKOR, Igbo Arts. Community and Cosmos, Los Angeles:UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1984

HORTON, Robin, Kalabari Sculpture, Nigeria:Department of Antiquities, 1965

NEYT, François, L'art eket. Collection Azar, s.l.:, 1979

NICKLIN, Keith, Ekpu. The Oron Ancestor Figures of South Eastern Nigeria, London, Coimbra:The Horniman Museum. Museu Antropólogico da Universidade de Coimbra, 1999

SCHÄDLER, Karl-Ferdinand, Ekoi, München:Panterra-Verlag, 1984

SOLDAN, Hans-Joerg, Zur Frage des Kulturgutes der Eket, Berlin:Baessler Archiv Band XXXIV, 1986

 

2.13.5 North

BERNS, Marla C., Richard FARDON & Sidney Littlefield KASFIR, Central Nigeria Unmasked : Arts of the Benue River Valley, Los Angeles:Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011

HEATHCOTE, David, The Arts of the Hausa, London:World of Islam Festival, 1976

 

2.14 Cameroon

BRAIN, Robert and Adam POLLOCK, Bangwa Funerary Sculpture, Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 1971

GEARY, Christraud M. , Bamun, Milano:5 Continents, 2011

HARTER, Pierre, Arts anciens du Cameroun, Arnouville:Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1986

HOMBERGER, Lorenz (ed.), Cameroon. Art and Kings, Zürich:Museum Rietberg, 2008

NORTHERN, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington DC:Smithsonian Institution, 1984

NOTUE, Jean-Paul, Batcham. Sculptures du Cameroun, Marseille:Musées de Marseille, 1993

NOTUE, Jean-Paul & Bianca TRIACA, Babungo. Treasures of the Sculptor Kings in Cameroon : Memory, Arts and Techniques. Catalogue of the Babungo Museum, Milano:5 Continents, 2006

NOTUE, Jean-Paul & Bianca TRIACA, Baham. Arts, mémoire et pouvoir dans le Royaume de Baham, Milano:5 Continents, 2006

NOTUE, Jean-Paul & Bianca TRIACA, Bandjoun. Trésors royaux au Cameroun, Milano:5 Continents, 2006

NOTUE, Jean-Paul & Bianca TRIACA, Mankom. Arts, Heritage and Culture from the Mankom Kingdom, Milano:5 Continents, 2006

PERROIS, Louis (prés.), Les rois sculpteurs. Art et pouvoir dans le Grassland camerounais. Legs Pierre Harter, Paris:Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1993

TARDITS, Claude, L'histoire singulière de l'art bamoun, Paris:Maisonneuve & Larose, 2004

ZEITLYN, David, Sua in Somié: Aspects of Mambila Traditional Religion, Sankt Augustin:Academia Verlag, 1994

 

 

3. Central Africa

 

3.1 Chad

LEBEUF, Jean-Paul et Annie, Les arts des Sao. Cameroun, Tchad, Nigeria, Paris:Chêne, 1977

PERONI, Pierluigi, Putchu Guinadji. Cavelieri contro la follia., Savona:Tribaleglobale, 2011

 

3.2 Central African Republic

GROOTAERS, Jan-Lodewijk (dir), Ubangi. Art et cultures au coeur de l'Afrique, Bruxelles:Fonds Mercator, 2007

 

3.3 Gabon

CHAFFIN, Alain & Françoise, L'art Kota. Les figures de reliquaire, Meudon:Alain & Françoise Chaffin, 2011

GOLLNHOFER, Otto, Pierre SALLEE & Roger SILLANS, Art et Artisanat Tsogho, Paris:ORSTOM, 1975

LAGAMMA, Alisa (ed), Eternal Ancestors. The Art of the Central African Reliquary, New-York:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007

PERROIS, Louis, Arts du Gabon. Les Arts Plastiques du Bassin de l'Ogooué, Arnouville:Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1978

PERROIS, Louis, Art ancestral du Gabon, :Nathan, 1985

PERROIS, Louis, Kota, Milano:5 Continents, 2012

PERROIS, Louis & Charlotte GRAND-DUFAY, Punu, Milano:5 Continents, 2008

 

3.4 Equatorial Guinea

PERROIS, Louis & Marta DELAGE, The Art of Equatorial Guinea The Fang Tribes, NY:Rizzoli, 1990

 

3.5 Congo

DUPONCHEEL, C., Masterpieces of the People's Republic of the Congo., NY:The African-American Institute, 1980

DUPRE, Marie-Claude et Etienne FEAU, Batéké. Peintres et sculpteurs d'Afrique centrale, Paris:Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1998

LEHUARD, Raoul & Alain LECOMTE, Statuaire Babembe Sculpture, Milano:5 Continents, 2010

 

3.6 Democratic Republic of Congo

FELIX, Marc L., 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture. The Handbook, Brussels:Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987

FELIX, Marc Leo (ed), White Gold, Black Hands. Ivory Sculpture in Congo. Volume 1, Qiquhar, Heilungkiang, PRC:Gemini Sun, 2010

HERREMAN, Frank & Constantijn PETRIDIS (ed.), Het gelaat van de geesten. Maskers uit het Zaïrebekken, Gent:Snoeck-Decaju & Zoon, 1993

NEYT, François, Fleuve Congo. Arts d'Afrique Centrale. Correspondances et mutations de formes, Bruxelles, Paris:Fonds Merctor, Musée du Quai Branly, 2010

 

3.6.1 West

BOURGEOIS, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Meudon:Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1984

DEIMEL, Claus & Christine SEIGE (hrsg.), Minkisi. Skulpturen vom unteren Kongo, Berlin:Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012

FELIX, Marc Leo (ed), Kongo Kingdom Art, Hong Kong:Ethnic Art & Culture, 2003

LAGAMMA, Alisa (ed), Kongo. Power and Majesty, New-York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015

NEYT, François, The Art of the Holo, München:Fred Jahns, 1984

THOMPSON, Robert Farris & Joseph CORNET, The Four Moments of the Sun. Kongo Art in Two Worlds., Washington:National Gallery of Art, 1981

VAN DAMME, Annemieke, Spectacular Display. The Art of the Nkanu Initiation Rituals, Washington:Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2001

VOLPER, Julien (ed.), Masques géants du Congo. Patrimoine ethnographique des Jésuites de Belgique, Tervuren:Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 2015

 

3.6.1 Center

BINKLEY, David A. & Patricia DARISH, Kuba, Milano:5 Continents, 2009

CORNET, Joseph, Art Royal Kuba, Milano:Sipiel, 1982

MEURANT, Georges, Dessin Shoowa. Textiles africains du Royaume kuba, Bruxelles:Crédit Communal de Belgique, 1986

STROTHER Z.S., Inventing Masks. Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende., Chicago, London:The University of Chicago Press, 1998

STROTHER Z.S., Pende, Milano:5 Continents, 2008

VOLPER, Julien, Si vis pacem, para artem, La création plastique chez les Salampasu, s.l. [Bruxelles]:Tribal Arts , 2014

 

3.6.1 North

GROOTAERS, Jan-Lodewijk (dir), Ubangi. Art et cultures au coeur de l'Afrique, Bruxelles:Fonds Mercator, 2007

SCHILDKROUT, Enid & Curtis A. KEIM, African Reflections : Art fom Northeastern Zaire, NY:American Museum for Natural History, 1990

 

3.6.1 East

BIEBUYCK, Daniel, Lega Culture. Art, Initiation and Moral Philosophy among a Central African People, Berkeley:University of California Press, 1973

BIEBUYCK, Daniel P., Lega. Ethique et beauté au coeur de l'Afrique, Bruxelles & Gent:KBC Bancassurance Holding & Snoeck-Decaju & Zoon, 2002

CAMERON, Elisabeth L., Art of the Lega, Los Angeles, CA:UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2001

MEURANT, Georges, Mbuti Design Painting, :,

 

3.6.1 South

NEYT, François osb, La grande statuaire hemba du Zaïre, Louvain-la-Neuve:Institut Supérieur d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art (U.C.L.), 1977

NEYT, François osb, Luba. Aux sources du Zaïre., Paris:Musée Dapper, 1993

NOOTER ROBERTS, Mary & Allen F. ROBERTS, Memory. Luba Art and the Making of History, New York:The Museum of African Art, 1996

NOOTER ROBERTS, Mary & Allen F. ROBERTS, Luba, Milano:5 continents, 2007

PETRIDIS, Constantijn, Art et Pouvoir dans la savane d'Afrique Centrale, Bruxelles, Cleveland:Fonds Mercator, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008

ROBERTS, Allen F. & Evan M. MAURER, Tabwa. The Rising of a New Moon : a Century of Tabwa Art, Ann Arbor, MI:The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1986

VOLPER, Julien, Autour des Songye, :Gourcuff Gradenigo, Fine Art Studio Publishing, 2012

 

3.7 Angola

BASTIN, Marie-Louise, La sculpture tshokwe, Meudon:Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982

JORDAN, Manuel (ed), Chokwe ! Art and Initiation among Chokwe and Related People, Munich, London, NY:Prestel, 1998

BASTIN, Marie-Louise, Sculpture angolaise, mémorial de cultures, Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Milano & Lisboa:Electa & Lisboa 94, 1994

 

 

4. East Africa

 

4.1 Sudan

FISHER, Angela & Carol BECKWITH, Dinka. Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan, NY:Rizzoli, 2008

KRONENBERG, Waltraud und Andreas KRONENBERG, Die Bongo, Wiesbaden:Franz Steiner, 1981

SELIGMAN, C.G. & Brenda Z., Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan, London:Routledge, 1932

 

4.2 Ethiopia

HELDMAN, Marilyn et al., African Zion. The sacred art of Ethiopia, New Haven, NY:Yale University Press, 1993

VAN DER STAPPEN, Xavier (ed), Æthiopia. Peuples d'Ethiopie, Histoire, Populations, Croyances, Art & Artisanat, :Cultures & Comunication, 1996

 

4.3 Erythrea

 

4.4 Somalia

 

4.5 Kenya

ADAMSON, Joy, The Peoples of Kenya, NY & London:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967

WOLFE, Ernie, An Introduction to the Arts of Kenya, Washington:Museum of African Art, 1979

WOLFE, Ernie III, Vigango. Commemorative Sculpture of the Mijikenda of Kenya, Williamstown, MA:Williams College Museum of Art, 1986

 

4.6 Uganda

LUGIRA, A.Muzzanganda, Ganda Art. A Study of the Ganda Mentality with Respect to Possibilities of Acculturation in Christian Art, Kampala:Osasa, 1970

TROWELL, Margaret and K.P. WACHSMANN, Tribal Crafts of Uganda., London:Oxford University Press, 1953

 

4.7 Rwanda and Burundi

KANIMBA MISAGO, Célestin & Thierry MESAS, Regards sur le Rwanda. Collections du Musée National , Paris:Maisonneuve & Larose, 2003

 

4.8 Tanzania

JAHN, Jens (her.), Tanzania. Meisterwerke afrikanischer Skulptur. Sanaa za mabingwa wa kiafrika., München:Fred Jahn, 1994

VAN WYK, Gary (ed), Shangaa. Art of Tanzania, New York:Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, 2013

 

 

5. South Africa

KUBIK, Gerhard, Makisi Nyau Mapiko. Maskentradition in bantu-sprachigen Afrika., München:Trickster, 1993

 

5.1 Zambia

FELIX, Marc Leo & Manuel JORDÁN, Makishi lya Zambia. Mask Characters of the Upper Zambezi Peoples. Masken-Charaktere der Völker am Oberen Sambesi, München:Fred Jahn, 1998

HOLÝ, Ladislav, Zambian traditional Art, Lusaka:Zambia Information Office, 1971

JORDÁN, Manuel, Makishi. Masks Characters of Zambia, Los Angeles:Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2006

 

5.2 Zimbabwe

DEWEY, William J., Els De Palmenaer, Geerts G; Bourgois, Zimbabwe. Témoins de Pierre. Passé et Présent, Tervuren:MRAC, 1997

 

5.3 Malawi

BIRCH de AGUILAR, Laurel, Inscribing the Mask. Interpretation of Nyau Masks and Ritual Performance among the Chewa of Central Malawi, Sankt Augustin:Anthropos, 1996

 

5.4 Mozambique

MARCHAL, Henri (ed), Art Makondé. Tradition et modernité, Paris:Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, 1989

 

5.5 Botswana

 

5.6 Namibia

 

5.7 South-Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

JOUBERT, Hélène & Manuel VALENTIN, Ubuntu. Arts et cultures d'Afrique du Sud, Paris:Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 2002

KENNEDY, Carolee, The Art and Material Culture of the Zulu-Speaking Peoples, Los Angeles:UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1978

KLOPPER, Sandra & Karel NEL, Arts de l'Afrique du sud-Est de la collection Conru, Milano:5 continents, 2002

MAGGS, Tim (ed), Major Rock Paintings of Southern Africa, facsimile reproductions by R. Townley Johnson, Amsterdam:Meulenhoff, 1979

SCHALKWYK, Len van & al., Zulu Treasures of Kings and Commoners. A celebration of the material culture of the Zulu people., Ulundi, Durban:KwaZulu Cultural Museum, Local History Museums, 1996

 

 

6. Madagascar

FAUBLEE, J., L'ethnographie de Madagascar, Paris:Les Editions de France et d'Outre-Mer, 1946

GOEDEFROIT, Sophie & Jacques LOMBARD, Andolo. L'art funéraire sakalava à Madagascar, Paris:Biro / IRD, 2007

GOY, Bertrand, Arts anciens de Madagascar, Milano: 5 Continents, 2015