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Jean-Marie Gibbal

Genii of the River Niger

Translated by Beth G. Raps
With a Foreword by Paul Stoller
232 pages, 12 halftones, 1 table  6 x 9  © 1994

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9780226290515   Published February 1994

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226290522   Published February 1994

Foreword by Paul Stoller
Translator's Note
Glossary
Preparations
1. On the River Niger
2. The Emperor and the Magician
3. Between Above and Below
4. Children of the River
5. Live Devils
6. Separate in Order to Heal
7. The Genii Club
8. The Solitude of the Gaw
9. From Experience to Fiction
Thoughts from the Between
Postscript
Appendix 1 - The Meaning of Sheikou Hamadou and Wanda Samba
Appendix 2 - Moussa's Great Deeds
Appendix 3 - The Heinous Crime of Komaïga and Djini Maïrama
Appendix 4 - Table of the Principal Plants Used in the Ghimbala
Appendix 5 - A Kanji
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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