west africa

"The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic that began in equatorial Africa was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue . . . [This book provides an] account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, and an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses"--Dust jacket.

In this story from West Africa, Anansi uses his wits, his trickster skills, and the help of his friends to bring light to the world.

In this retelling of a West African tale, Ma Sheep Thunder and her impetuous son Ram Lightning are forced to leave their home on Earth because of the trouble Ram causes.

A survey of the historical regions and kingdoms of West Africa including biographies of Mansa Musa, Emperor of Mali (c. 1280-1337); Osei Tutu, King of Asante (c. 1660-1717); and Ndate Yalla Mbodj, Queen of Walo (c. 1810-1860.

Anansi the trickster spider steals Hyena's magic stick to get out of chores, but when the stick's magic will not stop, he gets more than he bargained for.

When Chinye is sent into the forest one night by her cruel stepmother, she encounters an old woman who tells her where to find a a magic gourd holding wealth and riches.

Michael Finkel recalls how, shortly after he was fired from New York Times Magazine, he found out that a suspected murderer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List had fled to Mexico and taken on his identity. After the man, Christian Longo, was taken into custody, Michael Finkel was the only reporter that he agreed to talk to. Finkel describes his attempts to uncover the truth about really happened to the family Longo was accused of killing.

The author left UC Berkeley in 1965 and became a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Among his adventures was an invasion of army ants, and students who ate unusual food for snacks.

Donso, a West African hunterman, learns the importance of living in harmony with nature and the necessity of placing humans among, not above, all other living things. Presented in Arabic.

Relates a tale from West Africa that describes how Anansi, a spider, came to have eight thin legs.