The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization
1712-1920
from Markus Wiener Pub
Listed under Mali
Geological
Exploration in Murzuq Basin
from Elsevier Health Sciences
Shell
Petroleum Development Company, the State and Underdevelopment of Nigeria's
Niger Delta: A Study in Environmental Degradation
from Africa World Press
Excavations
at Jenne-Jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana: The 1981 Season (Inland Niger
Delta, Mali, the 1981 Season)
from University of California Press
Missions
to Niger 1
from Cambridge University Press
The
Condition Elevation Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the
United States and Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
by Martin R. Delany
Paperback from Humanity Books
Book Published: December, 2003
Fusion
of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger
by Paul Stoller
Hardcover from University of Chicago Press
Book Published: June, 1989
Genii
of the River Niger
by Jean-Marie Gibbal, Beth G. Raps
Paperback from University of Chicago Press
Book Published: January, 1994 |
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Hausaland
Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger (The Wilder
House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)
by William F. S. Miles
Hardcover from Cornell Univ Pr
Book Published: May, 1994
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Negotiating
Development : African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger,
1920-1960
by Monica van Beusekom
Hardcover from Heinemann
Book Published: January, 2002
Nomads
of Niger
by Carol Beckwith (Photographer), Marion Van Offelen
If one picture is worth a thousand words, then the combination of text
and images in Nomads of Niger adds up to the equivalent of a whole encyclopedia.
The cover photograph alone tells you this will be a special journey; before
you even reach the title page you've already been treated to several stunning
portraits of a nomadic people known as the Wodaabe, "who number among the
last nomads of Africa, indeed among the last nomads on earth." The landscape
the Wodaabe inhabit is a harsh one: "In central Niger, between the great
Sahara Desert and the grasslands, lies an immense steppe, scattered with
scrawny bushes and skeletal trees. For nine months of the year hardly a
drop of rain falls. The days are torrid, the nights sometimes freezing
cold. And the harmattan, the hot wind out of the desert, blows up relentlessly,
filling the air with a sandy haze." Across this no-man's land the Wodaabe
herd their cattle, migrating north in the rainy season and south again
in the dry months and leaving no trace of their travels as they go.
Photographer Carol Beckwith spent 18 months traveling with one particular
band of Wodaabe, and her photographs concentrate on the family of a herdsman
named Mokao and his family. Nomads of Niger is more than just a coffee-table
book; it is also an informative and highly entertaining account of the
lives, customs, rituals, and taboos of the Wodaabe reminiscent of the best
of National Geographic magazine. Amazon.com
Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x 13.37 x 10.18
Publisher: Abradale Press; (September 1993)
ISBN: 0810981254
The
Peoples of the Middle Niger : The Island of Gold (Peoples of Africa)
by Roderick James McIntosh
Book Description: This book provides the first comprehensive
history of the peoples of the Middle Niger written by an English-speaking
scholar. "The Island of Gold" was the medieval Muslim and later European
name for a fabled source of gold and other tropical riches. Although the
floodplain of the Niger river lies far from the goldfields, the mosaic
of peoples along the Middle Niger created a wealth in grain, fish and livestock
that supported some of Africa's oldest cities, including Timbuktu. These
ancient cities of the region that came to be known as Western Sudan were
founded without outside stimulation and their inhabitants long resisted
the coercive, centralized state that characterized the origins of earliest
towns elsewhere. In this book, Roderick James McIntosh uses the latest
archeological and anthropological research to provide a bold overview of
the distant origins of life for the inhabitants of the Middle Niger, and
an explanation for their social evolution. He shows, for instance, the
difficulties the peoples faced in adapting to an unpredictable climate,
and how their particular social organization determined the unusual nature
of their responses to that change. Throughout the book oral traditions
are integrated into the story, providing vivid insights into the inhabitants'
complex culture and belief systems.
Hardcover: 376 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x
9.29 x 6.23
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers; (November 1998)
ISBN: 0631173617 |
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Still
Waters in Niger
by Kathleen Hill
A Novel
Travels
in the Interior Districts of Africa
by Mungo Park, Kate Ferguson Marsters, James Rennell
Paperback from Duke Univ Pr (Txt)
Book Published: October, 2000
Hebrewisms
of West Africa from Nile to Niger With the Jews
by Joseph J. Williams
In
Sorcery's Shadow : A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger
by Paul Stoller, Cheryl Olkes (Photographer)
Industrial
Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger,
1881-1963
by James A. Jones
Hardcover from Heinemann
Book Published: December, 2002
Into
the Niger Bend : Book One of the Barsac Mission
by Jules Verne
Where
Vultures Feast : Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
by Ike Okonta, Oronto Douglas, Ike Okanta
Bridge
over Niger : The True Story of the J. F. Kennedy Bridge
by Remo Capra Bloise, Pat Fahey
Prayer
Has Spoiled Everything : Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic
Town of Niger (Body, Commodity, Text)
by Adeline Marie Masquelier
A
Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912-1984 : The Potts-Johnsons of Port
Harcourt and Their Heirs (Rochester Studies in African History and
the Diaspora)
by Mac Dixon-Fyle
Trade
Winds on the Niger: The Saga of the Royal Niger Company 1830-1971
by Geoffrey L. Baker
Hardcover from I.B. Tauris
Book Published: February, 1997
Marriage
in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989 (Social
History of Africa Series)
by Barbara M. Cooper (Author)
The
Niger Household Energy Project : Promoting Rural Fuelwood Markets and Village
Management of Natural Woodlands (World Bank Technical Paper, No 362)
by Gerald Foley et al
The
Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging : Life Course and Personal Destiny
in Niger
Niger
(Cultures of the World, Set 20)
Journal
of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers Undertaken by MacGregor
Laird in 1854
National
Unity and Regionalism in Eight African States: Nigeria, Niger, the Congo,
Gabon, Central African Republic, Chad, Uganda [And] Ethiopia,
Ways
of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta
by Martha G. Anderson, Philip M. Peek
Paperback from Univ of California Museum of
Book Published: July, 2002
Niger-Congo Languages : A Classification and Description of Africa's
Largest Language Family
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Recreating Words, Reshaping Worlds : The Verbal Art of Women from
Niger, Mali, and Senegal
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Guide
to West Africa : the Niger and Gambia River route
Niger Country Review 1999/2000
by Debra Ewing et al
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Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves : The State and the Economy in the
Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914
by Richard L. Roberts
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