Mali

Parisaren Malik åker till Bamako för att vara med när hans farbror ställer upp i det maliska presidentvalet. Det blir ett glatt återseende med kusinerna Sara och Rokia. Plötsligt försvinner hans nyfunna vän Dominique spårlöst. I skuggen av valet gör…

Resor är som personer: ingen är den andra lik. Allt planerande, all försäkran om beskydd är liksom klokhet och forceringar fruktlösa. Efter år av ansträngningar upptäcker vi att det inte är vi som gör en färd: det är färden som gör oss. - John Stein…

The aim of this book is to focus on the aesthetic qualities of the masterpieces of "Bamana" (or Bambara) religious art in Mali and to resituate them in their social, aesthetic and cultural context. The emphasis will be on pieces used in rites of pas…

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading…

African Soccer Stars and Legends pays tribute to the African players who have used their talents on the football field to uplift, enrich and inspire their communities. Here is all you need to know about who's who in soccer today, from an upcoming su…

This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Perinbam argues th…

This analytical edition makes available a unique corpus of primary-source material, and demonstrates its wide implications for African and Arabic studies. Through Arabic transciptions, English translations, line-drawing reconstructions, and plate il…

The Dogon people of Mali in West Africa are noted for their colourful masked dances and ceremonies, a distinctive adobe architecture, and a tightly-knit social structure. They live in a remarkable area, making their homes along a 200-kilometer cliff…

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 documen…

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 documen…

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. Fr…

Originally published in 1983, this book deals with the precolonial history of the Islamic West African city of Timbuktu. The book traces the fortunes of this fabled city from its origins in the twelfth century, and more especially from around 1400 o…