Fortunes of Wangrin

Name: Fortunes of Wangrin
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ISBN: 9780253212269

ISBN-10: 025321226X

ISBN-13: 9780253212269

Edition: 2000

Authors: Amadou Hampatï¿½ Bï¿½, Amadou Hampatï¿½ Bï¿½, Amadou Hampatï¿½ Bï¿½, Amadou Hampaté Bâ

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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Amadou Hampatï¿½ BÂ was a distinguished Malian poet and scholar of African oral tradition and precolonial history.Aina Pavolini Taylor is an independent translator with wide experience of Africa, now living and working in Italy.F. Abiola Irele is a professor in the Department of Black Studies at Ohio State University.



Introduction



Foreword


Overture



The Birth



Diagaramba



First Confrontation



The Beginning of a Career



Where the Calamities of Some ...



The Storm Breaks



The Count's Messenger



The Trial



The Donkey Who Drank Honey



Romo's Son and Beautiful Pugubila



The Death of a Great Chief and What Came of It



The Ambush



The Calamitous Bird's Egg



A Cumbersome Turban



Where Each Gets His Due



The Dream of the Fulbe Shepherdess



Pretty Much in the Lion's Jaws



Where Wangrin Is Off Once Again to a Good Start



A Profitable Pledge



The Reconversion



An Elephant's Tale



A Disquieting Arrival



Pretty Doe of the Markets



Two Birds with One Stone



A Narrow Escape



... In Which Romo Keeps His Promise ... and Wangrin His



A Souvenir "Crafted by Wangrin"



First Warning: The Hausa Geomancer



Madame White-White



Second and Third Warnings: A Fatal Oversight and the Sacred Python



Madame "Good Offices"



An Irreparable Loss



Last Warning: The Dove with a Black Ring Circling Half Her Neck



Philosopher Tramp



The Three Bloods and Death



Adieu


Afterword


Notes