Bibliography: The Mali Empire 

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Mali and Music

Spanish map showing  Mansa Musa of Mali. 

Mali exhibit of 15th-20th century art,  Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Friday, Nov. 30, 2001. AP Photo.


Grand Mosque of Djenne, Mali 1976, ancient center of Islamic learning.  AP Photo


Caravans in 2000 travel the once lucrative and vital trans-Saharan salt road. AP Photo

Geography

Key Words: Niger

 Brook, Larry. "On the Banks of the Niger."  Daily life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu.  Minneapolis: Runestone Press,  Lerner, 1999 : 6-7.


 The Political Economy of Mali: Empire and Trade

Key Words: Mali | Salt | Gold | Empire | Government

Brook, Larry. "The Mali Empire."  Daily life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu.  Minneapolis: Runestone Press,  Lerner, 1999: 20-21.

Brook, Larry. "Salt and Gold."  Daily life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu.  Minneapolis: Runestone Press,  Lerner, 1999.

Chu, Daniel and Elliott Skinner.  " Mali: Empire of the Mandingoes." A Glorious Age in Africa: The Story of Three Great African Empires. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990: 50-78.

Clark, Leon.  "The Kingdom of Mali."  Through African Eyes: The Past, The Road to Independence.  New York and Washington: CITE Book (Center for International Training and Education), 1988. Vol. 1: 37-46.

Haskins, James and Kathleen Benson.  "Mali." African Beginnings.  New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1998:  24-25.

Koslow, Phillip.  Mali: Crossroad of Africa.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1995.

Loften, Barbara. "Worth Its Weight in Gold." Footsteps. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. October, 2001. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

MacDonald, Kevin C. " Mali Empire ", World Book Online Reference Centre,
http://www.worldbookonline.com/ar?/na/ar/co/ar340230.htm Accessed November 19, 2003.

"Mali." Peoples of Africa.  New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2000.  Vol. 6: 316-319.

Masoff, Joy.  Mali : Land of Gold and Glory. Waccabuc, NY: Five Ponds Press, 2002.

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

Middleton, John. "Sudanic Empires of Western Africa." Africa : an encyclopedia for students. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. Vol. 4: 72-74.

Page, Willie. "Mali Empire." African History and Culture : African Kingdoms (500-1500). New York: Facts on File, 2001.   Vol.  II: 146-147.

Thompson, Carol.  Empire of Mali.  New York:  Franklin Watts, 1998. 

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Historical Figures 

Key Words: Mansa Musa | Sumanguru | Sundiata | Sundjata |

Mansa Musa 

Baker, Charles (ed.). "Mansa Musa King of Mali."  Footsteps Magazine. September/October 1999: Vol. 1, No. 4.

Brook, Larry. " Mansa Musa."  Daily life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu.  Minneapolis: Runestone Press,  Lerner, 1999: 25.

Diouf, Sylviane Anne.  "Mansa Musa, Emperor of Mali."  Kings and Queens of West Africa.  New York:  Franklin Watts, A Division of Grolier Publishing, 2000. 13-25.

Hambleton, Vicki. " The Great Pilgrimage To Mecca." Footsteps. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. October, 2001. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

Hambleton, Vicki. "Mansa Musa, The Golden King. " Footsteps. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. October, 2001. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

Luchembe, Chipasha. "Visit to Cairo. (Mansa Musa). " Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. October, 2001. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

MacDonald, Kevin C., " Mansa Musa ", World Book Online Reference Centre,
http://www.worldbookonline.com/ar?/na/ar/co/ar342650.htm Accessed November 19, 2003.

Mann, Kenny. "The Golden Age of Mali: Mansa Musa: The Black Moses of Mali."  Ghana, Mali, Songhay: the Western Sudan.  Parsippany, NJ: Dillion Press, A Division of Simon and Schuster, 1996: 67-6.

Meltzer, Milton.  "Mansa Musa. " Ten Kings and the Worlds they Ruled.  New York: Orchard Books (Scholastic), 2002.

Middleton, John (ed.). "Mansa Musa." Africa : an encyclopedia for students. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. Vol. 3 :58-59.

Page, Willie. "Musa I, Mansa." African History and Culture : African Kingdoms (500-1500). New York: Facts on File, 2001.   Vol. II: 161-162.

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Sumanguru

Key Words: Sumangura | Mansa Musa | Mali

Page, Willie. "Sumanguru." African History and Culture : African Kingdoms (500-1500). New York: Facts on File, 2001.   Vol II .


Sundiata  

Key Words: Sundiata | Keita | Mali

Brockman, Norbert. "Sundiata Keita."An African biographical dictionary. Denver, Colo : ABC-CLIO, 1994: 340-341.

Chu, Daniel and Elliott Skinner. "The Hungering Lion."  A Glorious Age in Africa: The Story of Three Great African Empires. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990: 52-60.

Middleton, John (ed.). "Sundjata Keita." Africa : an encyclopedia for students. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. Vol: 4: 75-76.

Page, Willie. "Sundiata." African History and Culture : African Kingdoms (500-1500). New York: Facts on File, 2001.   Vol II: 203.

"Sundiata Keita, Emperor. " UXL. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. date. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

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Cultural Life in Mali 

Architecture 

Key Words: Mali | Djenne | Jenne-Jeno | Cities | Timbuktu | Tombouctou

Gray, Martin.  "Djenne, Mali."  Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray. 1982-2003. http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/djenne.html Accessed December 7, 2003.

Haskins, James and Kathleen Benson.  "Jenne-Jeno." African Beginnings.  Lothrop, Lee & & Shepard Books.  New York: 1998:  16-17.

Chu, Daniel and Elliott Skinner. "Cities in Mali."  A Glorious Age in Africa: The Story of Three Great African Empires. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990:74-77.

McIntosh, Susan Keech and Roderick J. McIntosh.  "Jenne-jeno, an ancient African city." Rice Archaeology. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/brochure/ Accessed December 14, 2003.

Middleton, John (ed.). "Timbuktu." Africa : an encyclopedia for students. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. Vol. 4:90.

Page, Willie. "Jenne-Jeno." African History and Culture : African Kingdoms (500-1500). Facts on File, 2001 Vol. II: 111-112.

Page, Willie. "Timbuktu." African History and Culture : African Kingdoms (500-1500). Facts on File, 2001 Vol. II: 211.

"Tombouctou."  Peoples of Africa.  New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2000.  Vol. 6: 319.

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Art

Key Words: Mali | Sudanic

"Archer Figure." http://www.nmafa.si.edu/educ/mali/works.htm Museum of Africa Art.  Accessed November 19, 2003.

"Art of Mali from the Collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts." Virginia Museum Homepage  http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/mali_vmfa_collect.html Accessed November 19, 2003.

"Equestrian Figure." http://www.nmafa.si.edu/educ/mali/works.htm Museum of African Art. Accessed November 19, 2003.

"Mali Empire and Djenne Figures. " Museum of African Art. http://www.nmafa.si.edu/educ/mali/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

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Literature

Key Words: Mali | Sudanic | Timbuktu| Griot | Oral literature | Epic | Sunjata | Sindiata

"Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu." Library of Congress Exhibition.  July 25, 2003.  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali/ Accessed December 7, 2003.  

Clark, Leon.  "Griots: The Oral Tradition."  Through African Eyes: The Past, The Road to Independence.  New York and Washington: CITE Book (Center for International Training and Education, 1988. Vol 1: 47-53.

Hambleton, Vicki. "The Birth of Mali." Footsteps, Sept 1999 v1 i4 p4. Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. Sept 1999.  http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/ Accessed November 19, 2003.

James, H. P. "The Sundiata Epic: History or Folktale." Footsteps Sept 1999 v1 i4 p30 . Reproduced in Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. Sept 1999. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC/  Accessed November 19, 2003.

Mann, Kenny. "Mali - The Mandinka Empire: Sundiata: The Hungering Lion."  Ghana, Mali, Songhay: the Western Sudan.  Parsippany, NJ: Dillion Press, A Division of Simon and Schuster, 1996: 58-66.

Niane, D.T.Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Addison-Wesley Pub Co., 1995.

Niane, D.T. "Sundiata: The Words of the Griot Mamoudou Kouyate. African American Literature: Voices in a Tradition.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.: Chicago, 1992 : 120 -25.

"Sunjata" (History Through Literature Series). University of Berkeley, (ORIAS). http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/hero/sunjata/index.html Accessed November 19, 2003.

Wisniewski, David.  Sundiata: Lion King of Mali.  Boston: Clarion/Houghton Mifflin, 1992.  

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Religion

Key Words: Mali | Sudanic | Islam | Dogon | Religion

Brook, Larry. "The Arrival of Islam."  Daily life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu.  Minneapolis: Runestone Press,  Lerner, 1999.

Gray, Martin.  "Djenne, Mali."  Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray. 1982-2003. http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/djenne.html Accessed December 7, 2003.

Gray, Martin.  "Sacred Sites of the Dogon, Mali." Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray. 1982-2003.   http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/dogon.html Accessed December 7, 2003.

Mann, Kenny. "Islam- New Influences in West Africa."  Ghana, Mali, Songhay: the Western Sudan.  Parsippany, NJ: Dillion Press, A Division of Simon and Schuster, 1996: 52-57.

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Social Life

Key Words: Mali | Sudanic | Culture | Social life | Timbuktu

Brook, Larry. "Growing Up in Mali."   Daily life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu.  Minneapolis: Runestone Press,  Lerner, 1999: 22-23.


Resources for Teachers

"Art of Ancient Mali." Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/mali_geo_hist.html Accessed November 19, 2003. 

Austen, Ralph.  In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature and Performance.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999.

Belcher, Stephen. Epic Traditions of Africa.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999.

O'Halloran, Kate.  "Mali: Griots and the Story of Sundiata."  Hands-on Culture of West Africa.   Portland:  J. Weston Walch, 1997: 43- 44.

Palumbo, Joe. Mansa Musa : African King of Gold : A Unit of Study for Grades 7-9.  Los Angeles: University of California, National Center for History in the Schools, 1991.

"Sundiata's Mali's Lion King (Lesson Plan). " The Kennedy Center Arts Edge. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/events/theater/empire.html Accessed November 19, 2003. 

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