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Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1995by Patrick Manning
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00A revised edition of Manning's 1988 Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985. Covering the French-speaking countries of west and central Africa, it focuses on the development of new African institutions and a new African culture, based on precolonial African heritage and the connections of Africa with French and Belgian colonial powers. more...
The Roots Of Violenceby M. J. Azevedo
Taylor & Francis 1998; US$ 46.38Azevedo explores how violence has permeated and become almost an intrinsic part of the fabric of the central-eastern Sudanic societies and how foreign interference over the centuries have exacerbated rather than suppressed the violence. more...
Bodywork - Dress as Cultural Toolby Janet Andrewes
BRILL 2004; US$ 85.00This book describes how style of dress influences the body?s demeanour and habit. In describing dress practices in three West African communities - Muslim, Animist and Christian ? it considers the role played by dress in the enculturation of the body. more...
Senegalby Janet Gritzner
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 30.00Provides a comprehensive overview of Senegal's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture. Abundant full colour illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery. Maps reflect current political boundaries. more...
Seize the Dance!by Michelle Kisliuk
Oxford University Press, USA 1998; US$ 74.25List of Musical Illustrations and Maps. Preface. Map of Region. Introduction: Yodeling for Alternatives: Some Background. 1. Bearings on PLace, Circumstance and Performance. 2. At Ndanga: "Life in an African Forest". 3. Seeking the Mother of Elamba. 4. Seizing the Dance; An Apprenticeship in Elanga's Camp. 5. "Taking" Mabo; Socioesthetic Detail. 6. Dingboku, Elamba, and the Politics of Gender. 7. The "Matter of God". 8. Continuations: Managing Missionaries and Modernity. Notes. Glossary. Appendix. Track Notes for CDs. References. Index more...
Balancing Written History with Oral Traditionby Hassimi Oumarou Maïga
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 111.00This book offers a unique interpretation of Africas legacy to the world and the worldwide African Diaspora through bringing to light the sociocultural contributions of the Songhoy people and the cosmopolitan empire they established in West Africa. more...
Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau)by Cornelia Giesing
BRILL 2007; US$ 105.00This volume presents a hitherto unpublished manuscript written in Arabic and Mandinka from the muslim village of Bijini in Guinea-Bissau, the "Ta:rikh Mandinka", a unique and structured compilation unfolding the pagan "empire" of Kaabu from it's mythical beginnings to it's downfall in the nineteenth-century. Two existing manuscript versions and several oral interpretations of the "Ta:rikh" are reproduced, transcribed, translated, compared and analysed considering philological, historical and social-anthropological issues (chaps. 1-3). The fourth chapter deals with the clerical community of Bijini as a place of knowledge-transfer in it's local setting and within regional networks. The focus of the book... more...
Historical Dictionary of Guineaby Thomas O'Toole; Janice E. Baker
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2005; US$ 84.99Thoroughly updated and extensively revised, this 4th edition provides a very solid and substantial guide to a better understanding of this richly endowed but poorly understood nation. Students and others seeking information about the country will find an introductory narrative accounting of Guinea's political and economic history, a chronology that spans the earliest known history of the area to the present day Republic of Guinea, 400 dictionary entries covering the personalities and events that made contemporary Guinea, and an extensive bibliography of current publications. more...
Historical Dictionary of Mauritaniaby Anthony Pazzanita
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2008; US$ 149.99The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mauritania_through its chronology, introductory essay, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects_provides an important reference on Mauritania. more...
Empires of Medieval West Africaby David C. Conrad
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Beginning about 1200 CE, the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires spread their sequential influence across the western horn of Africa. This title discusses the vital role salt and other natural resources played in the development of the empires, the rich and diverse cultures, and the influence of the Islamic Empire on every day life. more...









