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  • Evil in Africa

    Encounters with the Everyday

    Edited by William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek ...
    William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singing with the Dogon Prophet

    by Walter E.A. van Beek, Oumarou S. Ongoiba, Atimè D. Saye ...
    In the Dogon funeral proceedings, a major song cycle called baja ni is performed in a session of at least seven hours. The texts of the chants are attributed to a legendary figure called Abir?, who as a blind singer in the nineteenth century roamed the heartland of the Dogon. The baja ni songs have escaped scholarly attention thus far. Singing with the Dogon Prophet by Walter E.A. van Beek, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

    Tales That Come, Tales That Go

    by Walter E.A. van Beek ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

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    The epic horrors of psychopathic mastermind Eddie Lee Sexton from the New York Times bestselling author who “knows how to dramatize true crime” (Elmore Leonard).For years, Eddie Lee Sexton ruled his large family like Charles Manson. The depraved patriarch dominated his ragged brood of twelve children mentally, physically, and sexually, and enforced every cruelty imaginable, from vicious beatings ... Read more

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  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

    A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

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