![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From Timbucktoo to the Middle Passage, from London to plantation Brazil, and then back to the capital city of Segu, it haunts them – and through them, the Bambara Empire itself. Beginning in 1797, and spanning the first half of the 19th century, it tells of the last days of the Bambara Empire (that spanned present-day Mali), and of a West African society disintegrating under the twin forces of Islam and colonialism.įrom the time that Tiekoro, the eldest son of Dousika and Nya Traore, announces his conversion to the new religion of Islam, a curse hangs over the Traore family, intent on claiming each one of their sons. Or, to put it more accurately, it is a story of many first contacts. And now the whites’ ambition knew no bounds. They had brought with them things never before heard of here, and people had fought over them, nation against nation, brother against brother. The whites had come, cadged a little land to build their forts, and then because of them nothing was ever the same again. ![]()
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