26.
4. For details of the content of this book and how it compares with
other children's biographies of Nkrumah, see my article "Who is
Kwame Nkrumah?" Newsletter of the Southern Association of Africanists
3, 3(1975) 25-28.
5. There are book-length biographies written for British children that
are not available in the U.S. such as David Killingray, Samori Toure: Warrior King (Amersham: Hutton, 1973), as well as ones
written for African children in the series mentioned in the third
footnote.
6. Cohen does mention "wizards, witch doctors and witch finders" whose
independent power Chaka tried to reduce. However, this is more in
the context of calling attention to unusual influences among the Zulu
political organization. Both Cohen and Keating used what were "standard"
sources on the Zulu, such as E. A. Ritter, before the recent trend in
African historiography to utilize oral traditions and view political
history from an African perspective.
7. A more detailed and African-oriented book on this topic written for
British children is David Killingray, A Plague of Europeans (Hamondsworth: Penguin, 1973).
8. This book was originally written for British children and published
in London by Hart Davis in the Young Historian series. Many books
on Africa published in the U.S. are reissues of British books.
9. For an evaluation of the coverage of Africa in children's encyclopedias
see my "Entries on Africa in Reference Books for Children." Newsletter
of the Southern Association of Africanists 3.2 (1975) 3-9.
10. See Dorothy Hammond and Alta Jablow, The Africa That Never Was (New
York: Twayne, 1970) for extensive documentation of this point.