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 The Modern Day Making of Kiffa Beads in the Town of Kiffa
In December 2005, after a four-year absence, my return visit to the town of Kiffa, in the southern Sahara Desert of Mauritania, at long last yielded the opportunity to record the actual making of these fabled powder-glass beads.
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 Bamum Kingdom Art
By Janice Kaplin
Christraud Geary arrived at the National Museum of African Art in 1986, to research historical photography, as a senior postdoctoral fellow. She immediately went to work studying the extensive photography collection.
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 Contemporary Beadwork of the Ndebele of South Africa
by Bucklee Bell
The Ndebele are a cultural group living in northeastern South Africa in an area called the Transvaal or KwaNdebele, northeast of the capitol, Pretoria. They were originally part of the migration of Bantu cultural groups.
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 Ghana Powder Glass Beads
By Wanda Haber-Kucharsky
Beads from imported glass scrap continue to be made using two basic techniques: traditional winding and drawing, and using ground powder glass. Powder-glass bead making is almost unique to Africa.
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 The Story of Zulu Beads
In what is today South Africa, one of the largest tribal groupings is the Nguni, and amongst the best known of these is the Zulu nation. Although they produce many unique handcrafted items, the Zulu are best known for their intricate and often spectacular beadwork.
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 Beads of Africa
by Christine Clueff
The movement of these beads traces trade roads within Africa and those linking other continents such as Asia. The splendor of kingdoms and rival invasions brought their cultures and their beads.
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 Altering Glass Beads
By Peter Francis, Jr.
Beads are altered for many reasons. The first reason to come to mind is aesthetic. That is, people change beads because they look better that way. Sometimes it is done for practical purposes.
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 Kori Bead
by Kwesi Amanfrafo
Kori has been identified as the “blue money bead of the trans-Saharan trade” and the bead traded for its weight in gold in West Africa at the dawn of the Age of Exploration.
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 Yoruba Glass Beads
by Kwesi Amanfrafo
Contemporary glass bead making in West Africa is dominated by the Ghanaian powder glass industries. However, throughout the twentieth century and for centuries earlier.
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