Authors: David Lamb
Statistics provided by African governments are notoriously unreliable, and I have, whenever possible, used figures provided by the World Bank in Washington, D.C., the United Nations and various
Western embassies and research organizations. For general reference I used the
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, the
World Almanac & Book of Facts
(1981), and
Statesman’s Year Book
(1980). The best maps I found were printed by Michelin in Paris. There are also several useful periodicals, published annually in Europe, that provide statistical data and summaries of contemporary political and economic events. They are listed in the bibliography, which is by no means complete, representing as it does only a fraction of the publications I read before writing this book. But the list does, I think, provide an enlightened perspective on where Africa has been and where it is going.
Africa Problems and Prospects: A Bibliographic Survey
. U.S. Department of the Army (December 1977).
Africa South of the Sahara, 1979–80
, 9th ed. London, Europa Publications, 1979.
Allen, Philip M., and Segal, Aaron,
The Traveler’s Africa
. New York, Hopkinson and Blake, 1973.
Amnesty International Report 1980
. London, Amnesty International Publications, 1980.
Bender, Gerald J.,
Angola Under the Portuguese
. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1978.
Bohannan, Paul, and Curtin, Philip,
Africa & Africans
. Garden City, N.Y., Natural History Press, 1971.
Cabral, Amilcar,
Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1969.
Carter, Gwendolen M.,
Which Way Is South Africa Going?
Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1980.
Cervenka, Zdenek,
The Organization of Black Unity and Its Charter
. New York, Praeger, 1969.
Churchill, Winston,
My African Journey
. London, 1908.
________, Winston, A
Roving Commission
. New York, Scribner’s, 1944.
Cloete, Stuart,
The African Giant
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
Conrad, Joseph,
Heart of Darkness
. New York, Bantam Books, 1969. (First published in 1902.)
Davidson, Basil,
Africa: History of a Continent
London, Spring Books, 1966.
Death Penalty, The
. London, Amnesty International Publications, 1979.
Decalo, Samuel,
Coups and Army Rule in Africa
. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1976.
Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen],
Out of Africa
. New York, Putnam, 1937; Random House, Modern Library, 1952.
Dinesen, Isak,
Shadows on the Grass
. New York, Random House, 1961.
Douglas-Hamilton, Iain and Oria,
Among the Elephants
. New York, Viking, 1975.
Fage, J. D., A
History of Africa
. New York, Knopf, 1978.
Gunther, John,
Inside Africa
. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1953.
Harris, Joseph E.,
Africans and Their History
. New York, New American Library, 1972.
Haynes, George, E.,
Africa: Continent of the Future
. New York, The Association Press, 1950.
Hemingway, Ernest,
Green Hills of Africa
. New York, Scribner’s, 1935.
Henderson, Ian, with Goodhart, Philip,
Man Hunt in Kenya
. New York, Doubleday, 1958.
Huxley, Elspeth,
Four Guineas: A Journey Through West Africa
. London, Chatto
&
Windus, 1954.
Karimi, Joseph, and Ochieng, Philip,
The Kenyatta Succession
. Nairobi, Transafrica Books, 1980.
Kenyatta, Jomo,
Facing Mount Kenya
. London, Secker
&
Warburg, 1938; New York, Vintage, 1962.
________,
Harambee!
Nairobi, Oxford University Press, 1964.
Leakey, L. S. B.,
Mau Mau and Kikuyu
. London, Methuen, 1952.
________,
Animals of East Africa
. Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society, 1969.
Legum, Colin; Zartmen, William I.; Langdon, Steven; and Mytelka, Lynn K.,
Africa in the 1980s: A Continent in Crisis
. 1980s Project/ Council on Foreign Relations. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1979.
Livingstone, David, A
Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
. London, John Murray, 1875.
Magary, Alan, and Magary, Kerstin Fraser,
East Africa: A Travel Guide
. New York, Harper & Row, 1975.
Mamham, Patrick,
Fantastic Invasion: Africa in the Nineteen Eighties
. New York, Harcourt, 1980.
Mazuri, Ali A.,
Africa’s International Relations
. London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1977.
Mboya Tom,
Freedom and After
. Boston, Little, Brown, 1963.
Meeker, Oden,
Report on Africa
. New York, Scribner’s, 1954.
Military Balance, The
. 1978–79 and 1979–80 eds. London, The International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Miller, Charles,
The Lunatic Express
. New York, Macmillan, 1971.
________,
Battle for the Bundu
. New York, Macmillan, 1974.
Moorehead, Alan,
The Blue Nile
. New York, Harper & Row, 1962.
Murray-Brown, Jeremy,
Kenyatta
. New York, Dutton, 1973.
Naipaul, Shiva, North
of South
. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Naipaul, V. S., A
Bend in the River
. New York, Knopf, 1979.
New African Yearbook 1980
. London, IC Magazines.
New Africans, The: Reuters Guide to the Contemporary History of Emergent Africa and Its Leaders
. London, Paul Hamlyn, 1967.
Nkrumah, Kwame,
Consciencism
. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1970.
Nyerere, Julius,
Freedom and Development: A Selection from Writings and Speeches 1968–73
. New York, Oxford University Press, 1974.
Paton, Alan,
Cry, the Beloved Country
. New York, Scribner’s, 1948.
________,
Cry
,
Too Late the Phalarope
. New York, Scribner’s, 1953.
Rosenblum, Mort,
Coups & Earthquakes
. New York, Harper & Row, 1979.
Rotberg, Robert I.,
Suffer the Future: Policy Choices in Southern Africa
. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1980.
Ruark, Robert,
Something of Value
. New York, Doubleday, 1955.
________,
Uhuru
. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1962.
Snoxall, R. A., A
Concise English-Swahili Dictionary
. New York, Oxford University Press, 1958.
South Africa: Time Running Out
. The Report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1981.
Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States
. U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C., 1980.
Traveller’s Guide to Africa
1980, 3rd ed. London, IC Magazines, 1979.
Trollope, Anthony,
South Africa
. London, Chapman & Hall, 1879.
Waugh, Evelyn,
Waugh in Abyssinia
. London, Longmans Green, 1936.
Willett, Frank,
African Art
. New York, Praeger, 1971.
World Bank Annual Report
. 1980 ed. Washington, D.C., World Bank.
D
AVID
L
AMB
has spent eight years roaming Africa for the
Los Angeles Times
. Before that he was their Australian bureau chief and was a battlefront reporter in Vietnam for United Press International (it was Lamb who named Hamburger Hill). He has reported for the
Times
from more than a hundred countries and on all seven continents. He has been an Alicia Patterson Fellow and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and has been nominated six times for the Pulitzer Prize. He is at present on the
Times
’ national staff, based in Los Angeles. He is also the author of
The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage
.