Authors:David C. Conrad, Sekou Camara, Laminigbe Bayo,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: african, west, music, culture, history, sources, mischievous, bards, upper, bala, niger, river, charismatic, people, somono
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9004121854
ISBN-13: 9789004121850

The Somono are an ethnic group specialized in fishing on the river Niger. Somono Bala is an epic story. This is a translation of this narritive from the Maninka language into English.

Author: Bayo Ojikutu
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Keywords: novel, burning, free
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400082897
ISBN-13: 9781400082896

Tommie Simms was supposed to be the community hope, the young man from the neighborhood who made good. He attended a state university, married a respectable woman, and landed a position at a white-collar insurance firm. Watching over Chicago from the thirty-third floor of his company’s downtown high rise, Tommie ignores the gnawing sense that he doesn’t belong on this path—and that in a blink of an eye, he could stray from its given destination. And then he does . . .Soon Tommie is laid off, and he begins to see himself as just another faceless entity on the city’s fringes. After each