Examines the history, language, lifestyle, social structure, culture, and religion of the major ethnic groups of West Africa, and includes a chronology, a pictorial history of the region, a glossary, and a language tree.
A hunter asks his friends to help him win the hand of a beautiful girl who seeks a husband who is special, but whose father has set a near-impossible task to ensure that she will marry a strong man.
An illustrated retelling of a traditional West African tale in which a small tortoise succeeds in outwitting a boastful leopard when all the other animals have failed. Presented in English and Bengali.
While Mungo Park is embarked on the first of his two expeditions to chart the course of the Niger River, scoundrel Ned Rise is on his own outlandish career in London. He eventually becomes Park's Sancho Panza.
The author tells the true story of Christian Michael Longo, his arrest for murdering his family, and how he fled to Mexico and assumed Michael Finkel's identity; and relates his own firing from the New York Times magazine.
When the daughter of the river goddess Yemoya goes to the Land of Shining Day to marry a handsome earth chief, her longing for the cool darkness of her former home causes Night to be brought to the world.
Three men set out on a difficult journey to find the secrets of the mystical country of Kaidara. Explanatory sidebars reveal the animist beliefs of the Peuls, or Fula, of West Africa.
Presents a comprehensive history of the early medieval civilizations in West Africa beginning around 1200 AD and including the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires, and describes their culture, religious practices, people, and way of life.
