

An edition of The Heart of the Ngoni : heroes of the African kingdom of Segu (1982)
heroes of the African kingdom of Segu
By Harold Courlander,Ousmane Sako
Publish Date
1994
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Language
eng
Pages
178
Description:
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.