Author: Joseph A. Walker
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: niger, river
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 1973
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573614814
ISBN-13: 9780573614811

Author: Kathleen Hill
Publisher: Triquarterly
Keywords: niger, waters
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1999-05-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0810150891
ISBN-13: 9780810150898

An autobiographical novel chronicling a woman’s ties to her daughter and an unfamiliar culture.

Author: Mark Jenkins
Publisher: Modern Times
Keywords: niger, journey, timbuktu
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1594867658
ISBN-13: 9781594867651

Author: Jean-Marie Gibbal
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: niger, river, genii
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1994-02-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226290522
ISBN-13: 9780226290522

The river Niger, a source of life and danger for the people in impoverished eastern Mali, is also the origin of elaborate mythology. From his travels through Mali and down the Niger in a dugout canoe, Jean-Marie Gibbal has created a personal documentary of the cultures of the region. The result is at once an ethnography of cultures in crisis and a poetic evocation of the environment and people he encountered. Gibbal portrays the river as the dominant, cohesive force among people in the face of social and environmental strife. He focuses on the Ghimbala healing cult, which centers on the river,

Author: O. et C. Barriere
Publisher: Ird Inst.Rech.pour Devel.
Keywords: interieur, niger, mali, delta, dans, inventer, foncier, environnement, droit
Published: 2002-07-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2709914956
ISBN-13: 9782709914956

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.