Ode to Ota Benga
by Lester Allyson Knibbs, Ph.D.
(formerly Hakeem Muhammad)
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"Ode to Ota Benga"
Leopold

Conrad Joseph.  “Geography and Some Explorers”  (Last Essays, by Joseph Conrad, with an introduction by Richard Curle) (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926)

Conrad, Joseph.  “Outpost of Progress” from
Two tales of the Congo (London: The Folio Society [c1952])

Conrad, Joseph. 
Heart of Darkness (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, c1996)

Emerson, Barbara. 
Leopold II of the Belgians, King of Colonialism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979)

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed.  MICROPAEDIA: s.w. "Congo Free State"

Hagerfors, Lennart. 
The Whales In Lake Tanganyika (New York: Grove Press, 1989), fictionalized account of Bula Mutadi (Stanley)

Hall, Richard. 
Stanley (London: St. James Place, 1974)

Hochschild, Adam.  King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
Presbyterian Missionaries versus King Leopold

Shaloff, Stanley.  Reform in Leopold’s Congo (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1970)

Sheppard, William Henry.  “An African’s Work for Africa” (
Missionary Review of the World XIX, 10/06, pp. 770-774)

Sheppard, William Henry.  “Light in Darkest Africa” (
Southern Workman, 4/05, pp. 218-227)

Sheppard, William Henry. 
Pioneers in Congo (Louisville:  Pentecostal Publishing Company, 1902)

Sheppard, William Henry. 
Presbyterian Pioneers in Congo (Richmond, Va.: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, [1917?])
Pygmies

Burrows, Guy.  The Land of the Pigmies (New York: Thomas &. Crowell & Company, [1898])

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi. 
African Pygmies (Orlando: Academic Press, 1986)

Clegg, Legrand H., II.  "The Mystery of the Arctic Twa: A Letter to the Editor" in
African Presence in Early Europe, Ivan Van Sertima (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1985)

Duffy, Kevin. 
Children of the Forest (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984)

Hallet, Jean-Pierre. 
Pygmy Kitabu (New York: Random House, 1973)

Putnam, Ann and Keller, Allan. 
Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure With The Pygmies (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1954)

Scientific American.  “Otta Bang”

Severin, Timothy. 
The Horizon Book of Vanishing Primitive Man (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1973)

Shoumatoff, Alex. 
In Southern Light: Trekking through Zaire and the Amazon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986)

Turnbull, Colin. 
The Forest People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962).  “loving, lucid, and informative,” singled out for “special praise”
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