Senegal Book List

Adams, Adrian and Jaabe So. A claim to land by the river: a household in Senegal, 1720-1994 (1996)

Atonson, Rick. To Timbuktu for a haircut: a journey through West Africa (2008) (in part)

Bâ, Mariama. Scarlet song (1985)

Bâ, Mariama. So long a letter (1981)

Babou, Cheikh Anta. Fighting the greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 (2007)

Barlow, Clive and Tim Wacher. A field guide to birds of the Gambia and Senegal (2005)

Bugul, Ken. The abandoned Baobab: the autobiography of a Senegalese woman (1982)

Busch, Annett and Max Annas, editors. Ousmane Sembéne: interviews (2008)

Clark, Andrew F. and Lucie Colvin Phillips. Historical dictionary of Senegal (1994)

Clément, Catheine and Julia Kristeva. The feminine and the sacred (2001)

Davidson, Basil. A history of West Africa, 1000-1800 (1977)

Diome, Fatou. The belly of the Atlantic (2008)

Diop, Birago. Tales of Amadou Koumba (1947)

Fuller, Hoyt W. Journey to Africa (1971)

Gorer, Geoffrey. African dances (1945)

Harney, Elizabeth. In Senghor’s shadow: art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 (2004)

Kane, Cheikh Hamidou. Amgibuous adventure (1972)

Ladd, Florence. Sarah’s psalm (1996) (in part)

Lowerre, Susan. Under the Neem tree (1991)

McKnight, Reginald. He sleeps: a novel (2001)

McNee, Lisa. Selfish gifts: Senegalese women’s autobiographical discourses (2000)

Murphy, David. Sembene: imagining alternatives in film and fiction (2000)

Overton, Cleve and Jude Andreasen. The doors of Senegal: Les portes du Senegal (2007)

Roberts, Allen F., et al., editors. A saint in the city: Sufi arts of urban Senegal (2003)

Schaffer, Matt. Djinns, stars, and warriors: Mandinka legends from Pakao, Senegal (2003)

Sembène, Ousmane. Black docker (1956)

Sembène, Ousmane. God’s bits of wood (1960)

Sembène, Ousmane. The last of the empire: a Senegalese novel (1981)

Sembène, Ousmane. The money-order: with, White genesis (1966)

Sembène, Ousmane. Tribal scars and other stories (1974)

Sembène, Ousmane. Xala (1973)

Senghor, Léopold. The collected poetry (1991)

Senghor, Léopold. The mission of the poet (1966)

Senghor, Léopold. S. Nocturnes (1961)

Senghor, Léopold. Of African socialism (1961)

Senghor, Léopold. Prose and poetry, selected by John Reed and Clive Wake (1965)

Senghor, Léopold. S. Selected poems (1976)

Sertima, Ivan Van, editor. Cheikh Anta Diop (1986)

Snipe, Tracy D. Arts and politics in Senegal, 1960-1996 (1998)

Stringer, Susan. The Senegalese novel by women: through their own eyes (1996)

Vaillant, Janet G. Black, French, and African: a life of Léopold Sédar Senghor (1990)

Webster, James Bertin. Revolutionary years: West Africa since 1800 (1981)