West African Journal: A Travel Account is a narrative of the author's trip in twelve West African countries. In the first chapter the author describes her previous travels and preparations for this trip and introduces her husband. She begins the second chapter with a discussion of the benefits and hardships of independent travel and describes the hotels, restaurants, forms of transportation, and difficulties with language. The remainder of Chapter II is a close account of the first sixteen days of travel. The narrative continues chronologically in Chapters III through VIII. Each chapter pertains to a distinct stage of the trip. In Chapter IX, the author reviews her personal accomplishments during the journey, relates her and her husband's reactions on their return to the U.S., and concludes with some evocative descriptions of West Africa.

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded in support of the Black Art: Ancestral Legacy art exhibition shown at the Dallas Museum of Art from December 3rd, 1989 to February 25th, 1990. The exhibition focused on the African impulse on African American Art. The footage is a documentary-style video featuring narration, art historian, and artist commentary on the exhibition.