The Younger Brother in Mande


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Our New Husbands Are Here


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In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté, enabling it to endure the predations of the transatlantic slave trade and become a major trading center in the nineteenth century. But French colonization introduced a radical new method of statecraft to the region, one that separated the household from the state and depoliticized women’s domestic roles. This book will be of interest to scholars of politics, gender, the household, slavery, and Islam in African history.




Rape Of Africa


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This narrative will offer valuable insights into the spiritual practices and cultural backgrounds of Sumanguru's family, allies, and adversaries. The plot revolves around humanity, religion, power, and love. Following the demise of their father Sumanguru, his wife Mansarico abandoned her 16-year-old daughter named Africa and her 10-year-old son Kwame in the wilderness, without anyone to care for them. His uncle Sundiata kept on intimidating her to marry Ishara Bin Sanon, it was her father’s wish to marry Swahili, but a few months later, their uncle over the sea, more powerful than Ishara Bin Sanon; Prince Leopold suggested a meeting with Prince Bismarck, demanding their interest in marrying Africa. During the family meeting seven of them showed their interest so that they could marry Africa and take over her father’s resources and Kingship as her only brother was still young. Still, young Kwame was not allowed to make any contribution during the meeting, his uncles forced him to remain silent. Africa rejected all of them and after much persuasion and sugar-quoted vibes, it all ended fruitless. Plan Z was to rape her, one midnight seven of her uncles from over the sea arranged to rape her, seventeen years old Africa was raped and impregnated during the process and gave birth to septuplets. The other relatives were voice-less and Kwame still being young, promised to fight them. Kwame is thirty years old, and a powerful warrior and advocate. Kwame wants to fight against his uncles and make them to pay for all that they did to his elder sister and the resources of their wealthy Father had left for them. Will Kwame get full revenge for what they did to him and his sister? Will Swahili marry Africa, after being raped by other men and giving birth to seven children? Will Africa kill all those septuplets, so that she will forget the memories of what her uncles did to her, or should she continue the love relationship with her seven heartless Uncles, who have zero interest in marrying her?




Geoffrey de Mandeville


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Predicative Possession


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This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession. It examines their interdependence with other typologies, and explores varieties of related grammaticalization processes.




The London Journal


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The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery


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The monastery of Walden was founded c.1136 by Geoffrey de Mandeville, a prominent baron in the civil war of Stephen's reign. Its site just outside the town of Saffron Walden in Essex is now occupied by the great Jacobean mansion known as Audley End House. The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery, written by a Walden monk soon after 1203, is here printed in its entirety for the first time. This lively narrative relates the history of the Mandeville earls of Essex and the inheritance of their lands and title by King John's justiciar, Geoffrey fitz Peter. The monk-author describes the development of the priory at Walden and its elevation to the status of a Benedictine abbey in 1190, and in the final section of the work he traces the consequent conflict with Geoffrey fitz Peter, concluding the story with the death of Abbot Reginald in 1200 or 1203. The interest of The Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery extends far beyond the local: the editors' introduction and notes establish its position as a valuable historical source.




The Epic of Sumanguru Kante


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The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako’s oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru’s life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.