West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused reg

" This volume consists of nine studies, each describing the world outlook of an African people as expressed in their myths of creation, traditions of origin, an

Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel i

In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settin