Mali
Author: Joy Masoff
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780972715607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Mali, as seen through the eyes of a griot, a teller of stories and singer of history.
Author: Joy Masoff
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780972715607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Mali, as seen through the eyes of a griot, a teller of stories and singer of history.
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Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 1935955195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mali Under the Night Sky, a 2011 Skipping Stones honor book, is the true story of Laotian American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. Before the war began, Mali lived an idyllic life in a community where she felt safe and was much loved. But the coming war caused her family to flee to another country and a life that was less than ideal. What did she carry with her? She carried her memories. And they in turn carried her across the world, sharing where she is from and all that she loves with the people she meets. Terry Hong of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program’s BOOK DRAGON, giving context to Youme’s remarkable book, said, “Today, December 7, marks the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, ‘a date which will live in infamy,’… Seven decades later, infamy lives on, stealing childhoods, families, homes, lives. Now as another year comes to a close, we pray for peace … again and again … again and again … [Mali Under the Night Sky] is another hopeful, urgent prayer.” And the Midwest Book Review calls it “a soul-stirring picturebook about the difficulties faced by wartime refugees, and deserves the highest recommendation.” Youme Landowne is an energetic and joyful painter, book artist, and activist who thrives in the context of public art. Youme has lived in and learned from the United States, Kenya, Japan, Laos, Haiti, and Cuba. In all of these places, she has worked with communities and individuals to make art that honors personal and cultural wisdom, creating community murals, illustrating tiny books, and teaching poetry in schools.
Author: Ross Velton
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781841620770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A second edition of the first English-language travel guide to Mali, full of practical information and cultural background for the independent traveler.
Author: Lisa Zamosky
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Published: 2007-01-05
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 0743904397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents an overview of Mansa Musa's life, discussing how Musa helped his empire grow in size and culture by encouraging the arts, literature, and architecture.
Author: Pascal James Imperato
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2008-04-25
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 0810864029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mali is currently the seventh largest country in Africa. It shares borders with Mauritania and Senegal in the west, Algeria in the north, Guinea and Ivory Coast in the south, and Burkina Faso and Niger in the east. After decades of dictatorship, in 1992, a new democratic constitution was adopted and today Mali is one of the most politically and socially stable countries in Africa. While Mali still has a long way to go with their economy_they are considered to be among the 10 poorest countries in the world_they continue to make progress and their increase in cereal and gold production are steps in the right direction. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mali, through its chronology, bibliography, introductory essay, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects, provides an important reference on this African country.
Author: R. James Bingen
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mali, a country rich with history and culture, but one of the poorest in the world, emerged in the 1990s as one of Africa's most vibrant democracies. Strengthened by bold political and economic reforms at home, Mali has emerged as a leader in African peace keeping efforts. How has such a transition taken place? How have these changes built on Mali's rich heritage? These are the questions that the contributors to this volume have addressed. During the past twenty-five years, the scholarly research and applied development work of Michigan State University faculty and students in Mali represents the most significant combined, long-term, and continuing contribution of any group of university faculty in the United States or Europe to the study of Malian society, economy, and politics. The applied nature of much of this work has resulted in a significant number of working papers, reports, and conference presentations. This volume represents a coherent and connected set of essays from one American university with a widely known and highly respected role in African development. While the essays identify and review Mali's unique historical and contemporary path to democracy and development, they also contribute to the advancement of theoretical knowledge about African development.
Author: Patricia McKissack
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1250113512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Djibril Tamsir Niane
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Khephra Burns
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780152003753
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Author: Kris Holloway
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2006-07-20
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1478609028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a remote corner of West Africa, Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope every day in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of the authors decade-long friendship with Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a tale of Moniques unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death. In the course of this deeply personal narrative, as readers immerse in village life and learn firsthand the rhythms of Moniques world, they come to know her as a friend, as a mother, and as an inspired woman who struggled to find her place in a male-dominated world.