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Africa Literature, Mali : Timbuktu Documents
Timbuktu and the Timbuktu manuscripts always seems to raise a lot of interest, and over the last few years there has been immense concern about the protection of the fragile ancient documents kept in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w...
Africa Book Review : African Art and the Colonial Encounter, Inventing a Global Commodity
African Art and the Colonial Encounter : Inventing a Global Commodity by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir has been reviewed for H-AfrArts by Joseph Nevadomsky. About the Book Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi...
Africa Environment : Deforestation in Uganda
An article on IRIN NEWS about deforestation in Uganda got me thinking and I hope it will interest you too. I was shocked to find out that the country had lost about a third of its forests in the last... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we...
Africa Photography : Mali transport sheep pix
Things you see transported on bikes, motorbike, wheelbarrows, cars, buses and lorries constantly win the funny photo stakes in Mali. I never cease to be amazed at what people transport and how they... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs...
Africa, Mali : Warning about travel to Timbuktu
For those of you planning to go to Mali for the Festival in the Desert in January, please see the following important message posted by the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali on November 19, 2009,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for...
Africa Book Review : Saharan Rock Art: Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Iconography
About the Book Augustin F. C. Holl. Saharan Rock Art: Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Iconography. Lanham Altamira Press, 2004. Illustrations. 240 pp. $33.95 (paper), ISBN... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...

