What fascinating accounts! Thanks for “discovering” them for all of us who’ve never heard of these intrepid individuals. I know the primary sources existed long ago, if we’d cared to pursue them, but works like yours really are a discovery for casual readers like me. Thanks again
You’ve outdone yourself this time, a great article. Thanks for the opportunity to see the full picture after having read so many books about European visitors and explorers to Africa.
I have recently discovered your work and it is definitely a great thing. I wish it could be translated in French so that it could be read by West Africans.
I am a French who has been living for 7 years in West Africa (Northern Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo mainly). I worked there as a technician in organic farming for local associations and surely not for NGO's. I married a Fulani woman from Northern Mali and have two children (I adopted the first daughter of the mother whose father is Bambara but she kept her blacksmith family name (Doumbia) because it would be so ridiculous to name her after my French family name. This is a legal procedure in Mali which France doesn't recognise ), one was born in the Gao area and the other one close to Timbuktu.
When the children will grow older, I will direct them to your work, for sure.
What do you think of Chancelor William's work? One friend in Bamako offered me his only copy and another guy in Bamako found it so interesting that he never gave it back to me...
Respect
Lionel alias Haila Bero (the big cat or Lion) in Kororoboro/Songhaï language...
We left Africa with great sorrow because of the war...
What fascinating accounts! Thanks for “discovering” them for all of us who’ve never heard of these intrepid individuals. I know the primary sources existed long ago, if we’d cared to pursue them, but works like yours really are a discovery for casual readers like me. Thanks again
You’ve outdone yourself this time, a great article. Thanks for the opportunity to see the full picture after having read so many books about European visitors and explorers to Africa.
Great article. Thanks for this...
Read this last week and shared the article with my family and friends. Brilliant work, Issac!
Mr Samuel,
I have recently discovered your work and it is definitely a great thing. I wish it could be translated in French so that it could be read by West Africans.
I am a French who has been living for 7 years in West Africa (Northern Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo mainly). I worked there as a technician in organic farming for local associations and surely not for NGO's. I married a Fulani woman from Northern Mali and have two children (I adopted the first daughter of the mother whose father is Bambara but she kept her blacksmith family name (Doumbia) because it would be so ridiculous to name her after my French family name. This is a legal procedure in Mali which France doesn't recognise ), one was born in the Gao area and the other one close to Timbuktu.
When the children will grow older, I will direct them to your work, for sure.
What do you think of Chancelor William's work? One friend in Bamako offered me his only copy and another guy in Bamako found it so interesting that he never gave it back to me...
Respect
Lionel alias Haila Bero (the big cat or Lion) in Kororoboro/Songhaï language...
We left Africa with great sorrow because of the war...