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Cette premiere edition critique d'un manuscrit ecrit en arabe et mandinka focalise l'importance des communautes mandinka et jakhanke dans la construction et la preservation de la memoire collective de l' "empire" paien du Kaabu en Senegambie. This is the very first scholarly publication of an arabographic manuscript in Mandinka language revealing also the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the pagan "empire" of Kaabu in the Senegambia.

"The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast," modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader.

Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.