"My Luck, a West African boy soldier who has lost his voice, leads us on a terrifying yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon"--Publisher description.
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"My Luck, a West African boy soldier who has lost his voice, leads us on a terrifying yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon"--Publisher description
"My Luck, a West African boy soldier who has lost his voice, leads us on a terrifying yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon"--Publisher description.
Presents a portrait of an early nineteenth-century missionary couple who worked to overturn slavery in Liberia, where conflicts between settlers and natives forced them to return to a war-stricken U.S. and make a tragic decision. "In early November 1834, an aristocratic young c…
Professor Pointer is the first person to offer an English translation of the Epic of Kambili, an African heroic myth. The book is careful to point out that this text deserves to be read by myth scholars and shows that the literary tradition of epic myth-telling extends to Africa…
"The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the…
A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
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"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali." "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occurr…
A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
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Type: Book
"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occur…
A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
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Type: Book
"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occur…
Negation of non-indicative mood in Hausa, Fulfulde, and Kanuri / Georg Ziegelmeyer -- The impact of clause types and focus control, aspect, modality, and referentiality on negation in Lamang and Hdi (Central Chadic) / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Quantification and polarity : negative a…
From the publisher. Since Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic -- the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British emp…
"Through agricultural and historical evidence, [the author establishes] the independent domestication of rice in West Africa and its vital significance there for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began."--