Hands-on culture of West Africa /

By: O'Halloran, KateMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Portland, Me. : J. Weston Walch, c1997Description: vii, 73 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: 0825130875; 9780825130878Subject(s): Handicraft -- Africa, West | Multicultural education | Africa, West -- Social life and customs
Contents:
Money in West Africa: Cedi, Dalasi, Naira -- West Africa folktales -- Music of West Africa -- Drum -- Xylophone -- Bamboo flute -- Board zither -- Benin: appliqué art of Dahomey -- Burkina Faso: building a house -- Côte d'lvoire: Baule gold plating -- Ghana: Kente cloth -- Ghana: Akan coffins -- Ghana: Adinkra cloth -- Ghana and côte d'lvoire: Akan gold weights -- Mali: Griots and the story of Sundiata -- Nigeria: proverbs -- Nigeria: what's in a name? -- Nigeria: humor and politics -- Nigeria: Yoruba numbers -- Senegal: a conversation in Wolof -- Sierra Leone: the game of Haba Gaba -- Cooking of West Africa: Jollof rice and fufu -- Hot plantain crisps -- Yam fufu -- Jollof rice.
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Junior Nonfiction (JN) 		JN 916.66 .O363 1997 Checked out 09/05/2024 16215
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Money in West Africa: Cedi, Dalasi, Naira -- West Africa folktales -- Music of West Africa -- Drum -- Xylophone -- Bamboo flute -- Board zither -- Benin: appliqué art of Dahomey -- Burkina Faso: building a house -- Côte d'lvoire: Baule gold plating -- Ghana: Kente cloth -- Ghana: Akan coffins -- Ghana: Adinkra cloth -- Ghana and côte d'lvoire: Akan gold weights -- Mali: Griots and the story of Sundiata -- Nigeria: proverbs -- Nigeria: what's in a name? -- Nigeria: humor and politics -- Nigeria: Yoruba numbers -- Senegal: a conversation in Wolof -- Sierra Leone: the game of Haba Gaba -- Cooking of West Africa: Jollof rice and fufu -- Hot plantain crisps -- Yam fufu -- Jollof rice.