Mali is currently the seventh largest country in Africa. It shares borders with Mauritania and Senegal in the west, Algeria in the north, Guinea and Ivory Coast in the south, and Burkina Faso and Niger in the east. After decades of dictatorship, in 1992, a new democratic constitution was adopted and today Mali is one of the most politically and socially stable countries in Africa. While Mali still has a long way to go with their economy―they are considered to be among the 10 poorest countries in the world―they continue to make progress and their increase in cereal and gold production are steps in the right direction. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mali, through its chronology, bibliography, introductory essay, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects, provides an important reference on this African country.

Historical Dictionary of Mali (Volume 107) (Historical Dictionaries of Africa, 107)

History

Imperato, Pascal James

Imperato, Gavin H.

Africa

Scarecrow Press

From the time of the first European contact with Africans on the West African coast that is now Sierra Leone and Liberia there had been reports of the presence of a women's initiation comprehensive survey and analytical review of the historical literature surrounding this society, supplemented by field observations made by one of the authors in the 1960s and 1970s. The text includes an important compendium of 47 field photographs ranging from the first ones taken by Thomas Joshua Alldridge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to some taken in 2011. These field photographs, covering as they do more than a century of visual documentation of the Sande Society's public activities, greatly enhance the text. BUNDU or Sande masks present a fascinating study for African art since they must all conform to certain basic norms and be immediately recognizable as masks for this women's society.

BUNDU: Sowei Headpieces of the Sande Society of West Africa

QCC Art Gallery / Kilima House

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