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Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
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Sundiata: an epic of old Mali
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Djibril Tamsir Niane
This is a revision of Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, a best seller for 30 years. Retold by griots, the guardians of African Culture, this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval African kingship. It is the epic tale, based on an actual figure, of Sundiata (Sunjata). Part ...
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Segu
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Maryse Conde
It is 1797 in the African kingdom of Bambara, and the forces from the East that will drastically alter African civilization--slavery and Islam--are beginning to make themselves felt. The four sons of the noble Traore family demonstrate the various responses to these new elements: one embraces Islam, another makes a fortune as a trader, the third ...
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Mali
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Ross Velton
Mali's capital, Timbuktu, became a twin town of Hay-on-Wye in February 2007; both are famous for their festivals, but that's where the family likeness ends. In Mali you may float past hippopotami whilst sailing down the River Niger, greet 300 herdsmen atop brilliant white camels, or stand on an escarpment looking out over the mystical cliff ...
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The Sirius Mystery
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Robert Temple
Is the existence of civilization on Earth a result of contact from inhabitants of a planet in the sysyem of the star Sirius prior to 3000 BC? There are tribal cultures in present-day Africa whos most sacred and secret traditions are based on this theory. Central to their cosmology is a body of knowledge concerning the system of the star Sirius ...
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I Lost My Tooth in Africa
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Penda Diakite, Baba Wague Diakite (Illustrator)
Inspired by her little sister when they returned to America from visiting their family in Mali, West Africa, Penda Diakit joins forces with her Coretta Scott King Honor-winning father for this story about a special treat brought to one little girl by the African tooth fairy. Full color.
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, Longman African Writers Series
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D T Naine, Djibril Tamsir Niane
Retold by generations of griots - the guardians of African culture - this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval African kingship. It is an epic - part history, part legend - and a great adventure story.
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
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The Hatseller and the Monkeys
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Baba Wague Diakite (Illustrator)
This is an African portrayal of the familiar story of the hat salesman whose inventory is purloined by monkeys. Author Baba Wague Diakite illustrates this adaptation with vibrant full-color ceramic-tile paintings of the scampering simians flaunting the colorful African hats. Small additional black-and-white drawings of monkeys tumble along each ...
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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa
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Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Patricia C McKissack
For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires ...
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The Magic Gourd
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Baba Wague Diakite (Illustrator)
This celebration of the rich culture of Mali tells a tale of the importance of generosity. When drought parches the land, Rabbit rescues Chameleon from a thorny bush. Chameleon repays him with a magical gourd that always stays filled with food and water. But soon a greedy king steals the gourd for himself. Illustrations.
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The Truth Twisters
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Josh McDowell, Bob Hostetler
Members of the Westcastle church youth group sign on for a mission trip to a remote Mali tribe. Sixteen-year-old Jessica finds that the brand of "truth" she has fashioned for herself cannot cope with the difficulties she encounters there, breakup with her boyfriend Shawn, theft of valuable heirloom jewelry, and terrifying nightmares. Duane and Liz ...
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Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs
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Walter E Van Beek (Text by), Stephenie Hollyman
The Dogon people of Mali in West Africa are noted for their colourful masked dances and ceremonies, a distinctive adobe architecture, and a tightly-knit social structure. They live in a remarkable area, making their homes along a 200-kilometer cliff face which runs like a wall across the land.
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Jungle ways
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William Seabrook
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The Unveiling of Timbuctoo
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Galbraith Welch
This is the remarkable story of Rene Caillie, a young Frenchman, who in 1828 became the first European to reach the unknown, sacred city of Timbuctoo and escape alive. His is one of the most extraordinary adventures ever undertaken. But his journey was so impossibly dangerous that for years his account was dismissed as a fabrication. In 1934-35 ...
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Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali
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Khephra Burns, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon capture the grandeur of Africa's ancient empires, lands and people in stunning paintings as the richly imagined tale of Mali's king comes to life.
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Ancient West African Kingdoms: Ghana, Mali, & Songhai
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Mary Quigley
Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
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The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings
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Yaya Diallo, Professor Mitchell Hall
In the personal story of internationally acclaimed drummer Yaya Diallo we see the power of music as a sacred, healing force in West African culture.
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Ghana, Mali, Songhay: The Western Sudan
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Kenny Mann
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Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves: The State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914
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Feeding Desire: Fatness and Beauty in the Sahara
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Rebecca Popenoe
While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten their sexuality and ripen them for marriage. From ...
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You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe
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Michelle Lamuniere
Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, two important and widely known commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerising photographs of members of their communities during the decades before and after the country's independence from France in 1960. This book presents a range of these portraits, as well as excerpts of recent interviews with the artists ...
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Heart of the Ngoni
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Harold Courlander, Ousmane Sako
The heroic legends decribed here, re-create the events and annals of the kingdom of Segu and of the Bambara tribe that formed a series of important city-states along the Niger River during the 17th century. The deeds of kings, the exploits of warriors, the sorcery of magicians, and battles against invaders are among the subjects addressed. The ...
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The Meanings of Timbuktu
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Shamil Jeppie (Editor), Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Editor)
Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu. u 15th-century Malian proverb. In a joint project between South Africa and Mali, a library to preserve more than 200 000 Arabic and West African manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries is currently ...
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