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Mali Bibliography and Internet Resources

Adler, Philip. World Civilizations. Minneapolis: West Publishing Company, 1996.

Anderson, Martha G. & Christine Mullen Kreamer. Wild Spirits Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness. ed. Enid Schildkrout. New York: The Center for African Art, 1989.

Brook, Larry. Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu. Minneapolis: Runestone Press, 1999

Burns, Khephra. Mansa Musa. New York: Gulliver Books/Harcourt, Inc., 2001

Davidson, Basil. African Civilization Revisited. Trenton: African World Press, 1991.

Ellis, William S. Africa’s Sahel: The Stricken Land. National Geographic Society, 1997.

Hamdun, Said & Noel King. Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. Foreward Ross E. Dunn. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1994.

Imperato, Pascal James. Dogon Cliff Dwellers: The Art of Mali’s Mountain People. New York: L. Kahan Gallery/African Arts, 1978.

Jackson, John. Introduction to African Civilizations. New Jersey: The Citadel Press, 1970.

Koslow, Philip. Centuries Of Greatness. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

Magnin, Andre. Seydou Keita. New York: Contemporary African Art Collection, 1997.

Mali. Faces: The Magazine About People. February 1997. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing Company.

Martin, Phyllis, and Patrick O'Meara. Africa. 3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

McEvedy, Colin. The Penguin Atlas of African History: New Edition. Hong Kong: Penguin Books, 1995.

McKissack, Patricia and Fredrick. The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1994.

McNaughton, Patrick. The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988.

O’Halloran, Kate. Hands-on Culture of West Africa. Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, 1997.

Roberts, Allen F. Animals in African Art: From the Familiar to the Marvelous. New York, Prestel, Munich: The Museum for African Art, 1995.

Robinson, Dindy. World Cultures Through Art Activities. Englewood, Colorado: Teacher Ideas Press, 1996.

Visona, Monica Blackmun. Robin Poyner, Herbert M. Cole, Michael D. Harris. A History of Art in Africa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.

Willett, Frank. African Art: An Introduction. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Woodward, Richard B. African Art: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1994.


Websites
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www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ml.html
The World Factbook 2000-Mali

www.maliembassy-usa.org/
The Embassy of the Republic of Mali, Washington D.C.

www.malinet.ml/
(in French)

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica
The BBC's Story of Africa

mali.pwnet.org
Mali web site from the Virginia Department of Education and Prince William County Public Schools

www.care.org/virtual_trip/mali/journal.html
A virtual field trip through Mali

usinfo.state.gov/regional/af/af.htm
US Dept of State international information programs current events/issues

carmensandiego.com/products/time/malic07/mali2.html
Carmen Sandiego’s Great Chase Through Time

www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/
Mali interactive, photo album and interviews

www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mali.html
Collapse, Why do Civilizations Fall? Mali and Songhai

campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Africa/Mali.html
Africa South of the Sahara Chronology

www2.wcoil.com/~mdecker/afrilink.htm
good list of links/lesson on Mali, created by art teacher

www.ontheline.org.uk/explore/journey/mali/malindex.htm
On the Line is a Millennium project that explores and celebrates the lives of people who live along the Greenwich Meridian Line (zero meridian).

www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/MALI.HTM
Civilizations in Africa, Mali

interknowledge.com/Mali/index.html
Geographia on line, Mali and other regions of Africa

archeo.unige.ch/inagina/index.gb.html or
Inagina, the last house of iron, film

kensingtontv.com/go/riverofsand/indextop.html
River of Sand documentary film

www.dogon-lobi.ch
On line photo album, Dogon, Niger

www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/7168/
Djeli ya Griots and musicians of Mali, French and English versions

www.mondeimage.com/bamako/
site in French

www.utah.edu/umfa/acontents.html
African Lesson Plans, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

www.artsmia.org/mythology/culturelist.html#top
Curriculum Materials on World Mythology, Minneapolis Institute of Art

www.harlemm.com/nokbeta/
The Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm, site under construction

www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html
Art and Life in Africa Online produced by University of Iowa (Good site!)

www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/syllabi/samplehtml.html
Class project on Sundiata under construction and Internet links www.eduplace.com/rdg/author/wisniewski/sundiata.html>
Author’s Bookshelf, Sundiata, Lion King of Mali by David Wisneiwski

projects.hprtec.org/~lessondb/lps/hm000068.html
The Legend of Sundiata Lesson Plan

www.worldbookonline.com/na/htm/zone/stm/1200/sun/sun02.htm
World Book Encyclopedia Online

www2.wcoil.com/~mdecker/histmali.htm
School project on Mali

www-sul.stanford.edu/
An annotated guide to internet resources on Mali for students, faculty, librarians, teachers, journalists, businesspeople, and others.


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