Entretiens avec Bala Kanté : : Une chronique du Manding du XXème siècle / / Jan Jansen, Diarra Mountaga.

• Superior document: African Sources for African History ; 8
• VerfasserIn: Jansen, Jan,; Mountaga, Diarra,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mountaga, Diarra,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: African Sources for African History ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book is a bilingual (Maninkakan [ Malinké] - French) presentation of narratives by an old blacksmith, Bala Kanté. The narratives are strikingly coherent in the sense that they use use indigenous models for historic causation to recount of the changes Mali has gone through in the 20th century....