Start with high-confidence african art history books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
BLK ART
Zaria Ware
The African Imagination
F. Abiola Irele
African Art and the Colonial Encounter
Stith Thompson, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Culture and Customs of Senegal
Eric S. Ross Ph.D.
When We See US
Koyo Kouoh
African Textiles
John Gillow
The Brutish Museums
Dan Hicks
Postcolonial Modernism
Chika Okeke-Agulu
The Ghana Reader
Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell
Dust of the Zulu
Louise Meintjes, TJ Lemon
Loot
Barnaby Phillips
The Art of Conversion
Cécile Fromont
African Artists
Phaidon Editors, Joseph L. Underwood
Zulu Beer Vessels
Frank Jolles
