Book 1988

Heart of the Ngoni

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Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Language: English
Published: 1988

Legends
Folklore
Soninke (African people)
Tales
Bambara (African people)
History
Folklore, africa
Legends, africa

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.