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Subject(s)

• Wangrin—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

Taylor, Aina Pavolini [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Abiola Irele
• 1. The Birth
• 2. Diagaramba
• 3. First Confrontation
• 4. The Beginning of a Career
• 5. Where the Calamities of Some ...
• 6. The Storm Breaks
• 7. The Count's Messenger
• 8. The Trial
• 9. The Donkey Who Drank Honey
• 10. Romo's Son and Beautiful Pugubila
• 11. The Death of a Great Chief and What Came of It
• 12. The Ambush
• 13. The Calamitous Bird's Egg
• 14. A Cumbersome Turban
• 15. Where Each Gets His Due
• 16. The Dream of the Fulbe Shepherdess
• 17. Pretty Much in the Lion's Jaws
• 18. Where Wangrin Is Off Once Again to a Good Start
• 19. A Profitable Pledge
• 20. The Reconversion
• 21. An Elephant's Tale
• 22. A Disquieting Arrival
• 23. Pretty Doe of the Markets
• 24. Two Birds with One Stone
• 25. A Narrow Escape
• 26. ... In Which Romo Keeps His Promise ... and Wangrin His
• 27. A Souvenir "Crafted by Wangrin"
• 28. First Warning: The Hausa Geomancer --
• 29. Madame White-White
• 30. Second and Third Warnings: A Fatal Oversight and the Sacred Python
• 31. Madame "Good Offices"
• 32. An Irreparable Loss
• 33. Last Warning: The Dove with a Black Ring Circling Half Her Neck
• 34. Philosopher Tramp
• 35. The Three Bloods and Death
• 36. Adieu.

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ISBN

• 0253334292 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 025321226X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

98017131

OCLC

38924382

RCP

C - S

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