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GOLDEN KINGDOMS OF WEST AFRICA
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Dancing Skeletons, Life and Death in West Africa
• Katherine Dettwyler
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1993 •
PAPER
• 172 PAGES
A vibrant account of life in Mali, which won the Margaret Mead Award in 1995. Dettwyler, a cultural anthropologist who lived and worked among the rural poor in Mali, is an unsentimental guide to the culture -- and field of ethnography. Not a simple report, Dettwyler considers her role in the lives of the malnourished children and families she encounters.
(WAF14, $19.95) |
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Forests of Gold, Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
• Ivor Wilks
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1996 •
PAPER
• 405 PAGES
Through this telling collection of essays, Wilks explores the Akan peoples of Ghana and examines the Asante kingdom in particular. With sections on history, culture and important individuals.
(WAF33, $25.00) |
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Lonely Planet West Africa
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 904 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to all West Africa, this is the book to carry for travels from Mauritania to Niger, with both a good overview of culture and history and the usual Lonely Planet attention to practical travel information. The bulk of the book is devoted to individual countries.
(WAF10, $33.99) |
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Onions are My Husband, Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
• Gracia Clark
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1994 •
PAPER
• 488 PAGES
A vivid ethnographic portrait of the women of the enormous open-air Kumasi Central Market in Ghana based on interviews and fieldwork by University of Indiana anthropologist Gracia Clark.
(WAF28, $42.50) |
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Rough Guide Music West African Gold
• Rough Guide World Music
MUSIC •
2006 •
AUDIO CD
Subtitled "The big beat of West Africa, Joyous Sounds from a Golden Era, this authoritative compilation showcases the music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, including bands such as Bembeya Jazz, the music of Salif Keita and Dexter Johnson & the International Band and Orchestra Baobab.
(WAF100, $14.95) |
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Wanderings in West Africa
• Richard Francis Burton
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 624 PAGES
Intrepid explorer, Islamacist and translator of the Kama Sutra, Burton's interests took him throughout Africa and the Arab world. This account, originally published in 1861, results from his three-year stint in the British Foreign office in Fernando Po, an island off the coast of West Africa. It's a valuable first-hand account of short trips around the West African coast and inland, rich in ethnographic and cultural detail. Two volumes, bound as one, this book also includes a detailed, black-and-white line map of West Africa.
(WAF12, $19.95) |
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West Africa Before the Colonial Era, A History to 1850
• Basil Davidson
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 257 PAGES
An accessible history of the rich empires and cultures of West Africa before 1850, including a chapter on Ancient Ghana. Davidson, a well known African historian, puts the stories of these cultures in a broader, general context. Includes maps, illustrations and a timeline.
(WAF07, $60.00) |
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