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The Heart of the Ngoni : heroes of the African kingdom of Segu

Harold Courlander, Ousmane Sako · 1988

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This is the first English language collection of heroic narratives taken from the oral tradition of the Bambara, one of the most important tribes in Western Africa and the founders of the kingdom of Segu, a group of city-states that existed in the seventeenth century along the Upper Niger river.

Book details

Year
1988
Language
English
Publisher
Random House Value Publishing
Editions
1
Pages
178
ISBN
9780517546376

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