The early history of Niumi: Settlement and foundation of a Mandinka state on the Gambia River (Papers in international studies : Africa series) [Unknown Binding]

Donald R Wright (Author)

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 116 pages
• Publisher: Ohio University, Center for International Studies (1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821403362
• ISBN-13: 978-0821403365
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,023,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Don Wright is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Emeritus, at SUNY-Cortland, where he taught African, African-American, and world history for 31 years. He was born in Richmond, Indiana, got degrees from DePauw and Indiana Universities, and moved to New York "because there was a job there." He spent a year (1974-75)collecting oral traditions in The Gambia and Senegal, and has visited Gambia regularly ever since. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, in 2003 and held the Mark Clark Distinguished Chair of History at The Citadel in 2005-06. He lives with his wife, Doris, in Homer, New York, where he eagerly plants trees, but less-eagerly rakes their leaves. He considers himself the only Cleveland Browns fan in the county.