AFRICAN ELEGANCE - by Ettagale Blauer with photographs by Jason Lauré and other photographers. Visit Jason Lauré website at http://www.agpix.com/africatrek

GHANA-enchantment of the world -Blauer & Lauré
this is a high school text book published by Children's Press, a division of Grolier Publishing

GOING INTO DARKNESS: Fantastic Coffins from Africa  - Thierry Secretan
about a workshop in Ghana that is also on the Aba Tour itinerary

A PIONEER POTTER - Micheal Cardew
famous English potter set up workshop in Ghana

MASTER WEAVER FROM GHANA - Ahiagble and Meyer 
a children's book - the weaver is a friend of Aba Tours and is also on the itinerary

ASAFO! AFRICAN FLAGS OF THE FANTE - P.Adler and N.Barnard 
(Fante are Ghanaian)

AFRICAN CANVAS: THE ART OF WEST AFRICAN WOMEN - Courtney-Clarke

AFRICAN MAJESTY: THE TEXTILE ART OF THE EWE & ASHANTI - Adler
about Ghanaian weaving - advisor for book (Baba Mohammed) works with Aba Tours

AFRICAN ARTS MAGAZINE - quarterly from Univ. of CA, Los Angeles
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/africanarts/

INTO INDIGO: African textile & dyeing techniques - Claire Polakoff

MYTHS and LEGENDS OF AFRICA - Margret Carey

FLASH OF THE SPIRIT - Robert Farris Thompson 
(anything by him is worth reading)

MIGRATIONS OF THE HEART - Marita Golden 
true story about her marriage to an African

THINGS FALL ABOUT - Chinua Achebe 
(read all of his books)

THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN - Ayi Kwei Armah

THE DARK CHILD - Camera Laye

THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER - Kofi Awoonor

THE INTERPRETERS - Wole Soyinka 
(famous Nigerian writer)

IN THE SHADOW OF THE SACRED GROVE - Carol Spindel

THE HEALING DRUM: African Wisdom Teachings - Yaya Diallo

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF KWAME NKRUMAH
he was the first president of Ghana - first part of the book is interesting look at growing up in Ghana - second half is less interesting unless you're into politics

NO SWEETNESS HERE - Amma Ata Aidoo 
(a famous contemporary Ghanaian author)

THE AFRICA THAT NEVER WAS - D. Hammond & A. Jablow

OUR GRANDMOTHERS' DRUMS - Mark Hudson

PARALLEL WORLDS - A. Gottlieb & P. Graham

NORTH OF SOUTH - S. Naipaul 
writes mostly about the culture of India, but makes you think about cultural differences

A WREATH FOR UDOMO -P. Abrahams

TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA - Mary Kingsley 
(written in 1893) but I think it's been reissued in a paperback - an eccentric English woman traveling in Africa when women didn't do that

AFRICA - People & Politics - Sanford J. Unger

THE LONELY AFRICAN - Colin Turnbull 
about the influence of Western culture on Africa

THE CHILDREN OF SEGU - Maryse Conde

NATIVE STRANGER - Eddy L. Harris 
Afro-American traveling in Africa

NOT OUT OF AFRICA: How Afrocentrism became an excuse to teach 
myth as history - Mary Lefkowitz

>>> BOOK PUBLISHERS <<<

RUSSEL FRIEDMAN BOOKS 
4651 Glenshire Place, Atlanta, GA 30338
phone: 770-399-6777 (sells books mostly on S.African wildlife)

OAN 
15 W.39th St. New York, NY10018-3806 
phone:212-840-8844
sells academic books and journals on African art/culture - interesting catalogue
http://www.oanbooks.com/

INTERCULTURAL PRESS 
Box 700 Yarmouth, Maine 04096 
phone:800-370-2665
books on intercultural communication and such

HAVE BOOK, WILL TRAVEL 
Box 576 Wilton, CT 06897 
phone:203-761-0604
sells general travel books - tell him you're interested in books about Africa & he'll send list

>>> ON THE INTERNET: <<<

http://www.amazon.com - look up books on Ghana

http://www.alibris.com - finds out of print books