The Griots Tale

Author : Ron Ramdin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425184063
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Griot's Tale written by Ron Ramdin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Griot's Tale will move those who read it; an absorbing, rare literary work in which words "say more than it speaks and means more than it utters."

Author : Thomas Albert Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253334589
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griots and Griottes written by Thomas Albert Hale and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.

Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396878
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the western Sahel, a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the diverse cultural achievements and traditions of the region, spanning more than 1,300 years from the pre Islamic period through the nineteenth century. It features some of the earliest extant art from sub Saharan Africa as well as such iconic works as sculptures by the Dogon and Bamana peoples of Mali. Essays by leading international scholars discuss the art, architecture, archaeology, literature, philosophy, religion, and history of the Sahel, exploring the unique cultural landscape in which these ancient communities flourished. Richly illustrated and brilliantly argued, Sahel brings to life the enduring forms of expression created by the peoples who lived in this diverse crossroads of the world.

Author : Milton J. Davis
Publisher : Mvmedia, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780980084283
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griots written by Milton J. Davis and published by Mvmedia, LLC. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of African based fantasy tales, known as the sword and soul genre.

Author : Djibril Tamsir Niane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sundiata written by Djibril Tamsir Niane and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of Sogolon, the hunchback princess, and Maghan, known as "the handsome", Sundiata grew up to fulfill the prophesies of the soothsayers that he would unite the twelve kingdoms of Mali into one of the most powerful empires ever known in Africa, which at its peak stretched right across the savanna belt from the shores of the Atlantic to the dusty walls of Timbuktu. Retold by generations of griots, the guardians of African culture, this oral tradition has been handed down from the thirteenth century and captures all the mystery and majesty of medieval African kingship. It is an epic tale, part history and part legend.

Author : Betty K. Staley
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945803270
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hear the Voice of the Griot! written by Betty K. Staley and published by Rudolf Steiner College Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0385474547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Author : Fa-Digi Sisòkò
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207135
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic of Son-Jara written by Fa-Digi Sisòkò and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a major addition to the literature on oral traditions." —Journal of Religion in Africa This 750-year-old epic celebrates the exploits of the legendary founder of the Empire of Old Mali. It constitutes a virtual social, political, and cultural charter and embodies deep-rooted aspects of Mande cosmology. The fully annotated translation is accompanied by an introduction that provides a historical and contextual framework for understanding the recitation of this African epic.

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664474X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.

Author : Janice Curtis Greene
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449090788
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thema and the Wonderful Black Gourd written by Janice Curtis Greene and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thema and the Wonderful Black Gourd is a delightful coming of age story set in Ghana. As Thema struggles with growing up away from her parents she is helped by a beautiful reflection in the river. Grow with Thema and you may discover the lesson hidden in the Wonderful Black Gourd.