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Travel Books &
Maps
History & Politics
People & Culture
Other Books &
Novels
Travel Books &
Maps
Niger Bradt Travel Guide
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UL
by Jolijn Geels
A travel guide
dedicated to Niger. Providing coverage of Niamey, Zinder, Maradi, Massif de
L'Air and Tenere desert, it features the ethnic groups, the Hausa, the Peul and
the Tuareg and vocabulary and phrases. It covers Niger culture and religion,
Islam and animism, and social and ecological issues.
The Rough Guide to West Africa 5 - 2008- (Paperback)
Author Richard Trillo
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
covering the 15 visitable
countries from Mauritania to Cameroon in fifty percent more detail than its
only competitor. Each chapter of the Rough Guide includes thoroughly researched
hotel and restaurant listings, sections on everything from food and language to
media and sport, and thoughtful background on the environment, culture,
history, politics and music
West Africa
(Maps Worldwide)
Paperback, - Lonely Planet
Publications - Country/Regional Guides
This guide covers travel in Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea
Bissau Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and
Togo. Features an expanded 32-page section on the region's culture and
birdlife. Listings of places to stay and eat are included for all budgets and
there is comprehensive coverage of contemporary and traditional music. Language
sections and a glossary are also included.
Niger - Sheet map (Maps Worldwide)
Full colour - Institut Geographique
National (IGN) - Countries and Cities of the World
Riding the Demon : On the Road in West Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Peter Chilson
I desperatly
needed some inspiration and Chilson and his book gave it to me. He weaves an
interesting story through Niger meeting just the right mixture of people
(intellectual, working class types and others) and describes the country to a
penetrating affect. (A reader from california , July 28, 1999)
History & Politics
Country Review, Niger 1999/2000 (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
up-to-date source for political and economic information
Excavations at Jenne-Jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana :
The 1981 Season (Inland Niger Delta, Mali, the 1981 Season)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Susan Keech McIntosh (Editor)
Historical Dictionary of
Niger (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Samuel Decalo
People & Culture
Nomads of Niger (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Carol Beckwith (Photographer),
Marion Van Offelen, Marion Van Offelen (Designer)
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.
Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a
Hausa Society in Niger (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
Barbara M. Cooper
This work
explores how both men and women adapted, negotiated and contested their rights
and duties in marriage during a period of socio-political upheaval in
20th-century Niger, a period which saw the advent and demise of colonial rule,
the abolition of slavery and the rise of Islam.
The Cinematic Griot : The Ethnography of Jean Rouch
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Paul Stoller
A brief
account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and
intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in
the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a
peripatetic bard who "recites" the story of a people through provocative
imagery.
Fusion of the Worlds : An Ethnography
of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Paul Stoller
"Compelling,
insightful, rich in ethnographic detail, and worthy of becoming a classic in
the scholarship on Africa." (Aidan Southall, African Studies Review)
In Sorcery's Shadow : A Memoir of Apprenticeship
Among the Songhay of Niger (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Paul Stoller, Cheryl Olkes
(Photographer)
Paul Stoller gives a edge-of-the-seat account of his
fieldwork amoung the Songhay of Niger. Very readable, detailed, and often
humerous. It raises many questions about the nature of anthropological
fieldwork. (A reader from New Brunswick, New Jersey , October 8, 1997
)
The Peoples of the Middle Niger : The Island
of Gold (Peoples of Africa) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Roderick James McIntosh
This is the first comprehensive history of the peoples of the Middle Niger
written by an English-speaking scholar.
The
Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging : Life Course and Personal Destiny in
Niger
(amazon.com) - USA
by Susan J. Rasmussen
In this
unique ethnographical study of the people of the Kel Ewey confederation of
Tuareg, Rasmussen explores concepts of age and aging in an African culture. A
seminomadic community in northern Niger, the Tuareg understand aging in a way
that is distinctly nonlinear - a dimension of life they measure outside of a
chronological time frame.
Tribes of the Niger
Delta (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Percy Amaury Talbot
Other Books & Novels
Still Waters in Niger (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Kathleen Hill
The
narrator's profound, unflashy observations about motherhood, the necessities
and extravagances of survival, the effect of travel and dislocation and the
peculiar beauty of the drought-struck land are the work of a brilliant
essayist." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Great Boys : An African Childhood (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide
in which he recalls his humble but happy childhood days during the 1950s and
60s in his homeland in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. The childhood memoirs
portrays the traditional African setting of pre-colonial times and ponders over
the social transformations, mostly negative, which have since taken place in
the country as a result of "modernization"
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