Author: Tunde Adeleke
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: west, africa, peoples, african, heritage, library, songhay
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1996-09
List price: $29.25
ISBN-10: 0823919862
ISBN-13: 9780823919864

Authors:Patricia McKissack, Frederick McKissack,
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: life, medieval, africa, songhay, mali, kingdoms, ghana, royal
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1995-10-15
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0805042598
ISBN-13: 9780805042597

For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

Author: John O. Hunwick
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: contemporary, documents, sudan, rikh, songhay, empire, timbuktu
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 9004128220
ISBN-13: 9789004128224

The principal text translated in this volume is the "Ta’rikh Al’sudan" of the 17th century Timbuktu scholar ’Abd al-Rahman al-Sa’di. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ’Ali (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling institution in the Middle Niger region. The year 1613 also marked the effective end of Songhay resistance. The other contempor

Author: Jeffrey Heath
Publisher: Llh
Keywords: grammar, mouton, library, timbuktu, songhay, koyra, chiini
Number of Pages: 453
Published: 1998-12
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 3110162857
ISBN-13: 9783110162851

This is the first grammar in English of a language of the Songhay family of West Africa. The emphasis is on grammatical categories and morphosyntax. Topics of special interest are focalization and relativization, logophoric pronouns, conjunction, and serial verbs. The factual presentation is straightforward, without theory-specific formalisms. Koyra Chiini and its offshoot Djenné Chiini (described in an appendix) are of historical interest as possible semi-creolized versions of mainstream Songhay languages.