Erdman, who now works for the Peace Corps in Washington, D.C., spent two years in Nambonkaha, a northern Ivory Coast...

An investigation of the unfortunate paradox that exists at the root of Gulf of Guinea politics. The government crisis that...

This epic seeks to explain the creation of the Malian empire of Timbuktu fame. Sundiata's legendary rise to power is...

A modern version of the popular Malawian folktale, 'The Orphan and the Slave.' The modern and tradtional version work alongside...

Selected as one of the six best non-fiction books of 1990 by the New York Times Book Review, this is...