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An overview of Niger's geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this West African nation. A former French colony located in the Sahel region of Africa, Niger is one of the poorest--and hottest--countries on earth. This edition includes comprehensive text with strong curriculum ties, beautiful full-color photography throughout, and interesting, detailed sidebars. ... Read more

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I found the description too generalized, it does not give much more than the informations available on-line, in different web pages. However. the maps are useful. ... Read more

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The journal of the Lander brothers provides a narrative of one of the most important missions of exploration in the history of West Africa. The editor's introduction contains much new material on the Landers and their journey drawn from hitherto unpublished sources, while an epilogue describes Richard Lander's last expedition to the Niger in 1832-4 and his death at Fernando Po.
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Chapters: Azaouad, Arbre Du Ténéré, Arewa, Liptako, Gadoufaoua, Azawagh and Ayr Region. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Azaouad or Azawad/Azawagh is a name for parts of northern Mali, northern Niger, and part of southern Algeria, mainly made up of Sahelian and Saharan geography. It does not correspond to any single administrative region of Mali, Niger, or Algeria, but includes portions of the Kidal Region of Mali and the Tahoua Region and Agadez Region of Niger, and portions of southern Algeria. The Azawad has historically referred to the dry river valley, which once carried a Northern arm of the Niger River. The Azawad river ran some 1600 km in prehistoric times (drying finally after the Neolithic Subpluvial: 7th to 4th millennium BCE ), and created a basin of some 420000 km². Its valley, which geologists call the Iullemmeden Basin, forms in the western foothills of the Aïr Mountains curves through the Sahara Dessert of modern Niger and Mali, meeting the Niger near Gao. It is bordered to the east by the Adrar des Ifoghas massif of modern Mali and Algeria, to the south by the Niger river in the west and the Ader Douchi hills in the east, and depending upon interpretation, runs north to the southern foothills of the Hoggar massif. In Mali, the name Azawak is used for the area, while in Niger, Azawagh is often used. In Niger, Azawagh generally includes the towns of Abalagh (Abalak), In Tibaraden (Tchin-Tabaraden), Tiliya, In Gal, Tabalaq, a village where the sole lake of the region is located. Azawad Region is generally flat, its 80.000 square kilometers forming vast, arid plains broken by occasional ridges . The scarps separate a series of sandstone plateaus, the highest of which is reaching an elevation of 500 meters (1,640 ft), often rich in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10172453 ... Read more

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Chapters: In-Gall, Dogondoutchi, Zinder, N'guigmi, Bilma, Maradi, Niger, Assamakka, Diffa, Bouza Department, Fachi, Ourofan, Séguedine, Diffa Region, Keita Department, Aguie Department, Jikata, Niger, Birni N'gaouré, Dirkou, Dosso, Niger, Diori Hamani International Airport, Abalak, Ouallam Department, Loga Department, Madaoua, Taggafadi, Tchin-Tabaraden, Goûgaram, Imourarene, Mont Idoukal-N-Taghès, Tchintoulous, Oubandawaki Makiani, Birni-N'konni, Tillabéri Department, I-N-Azaoua, Inignaouei, Aguelal, Assarara, Sidaouet, Tarhmert, Teouat, Afassa, Elok, Matameye Department, Arlit Department, Agadez Region, Kel Ayr, Tahoua, Kollo Department, Mayahi Department, La Tapoa, Filingue Department, Namaro, Tahoua Department, Say Department, Dosso Department, Diffa Department, Maine-Soroa Department, Maradi Region, Banibangou, Tesker, Tchirozerine, Tchin-Tabaraden Department, Bkonni Department, Torodi, Abalak Department, Madoua Department, Tchirozerine Department, Madarounfa, Damagaram Takaya, Gothèye, Takanamat, Bangui, Niger, Kantche, Kelle, Niger, Bermo, Niger, Farey, Niger, Harikanassou, Simiri, Tanda, Niger, Youri, Niger, Birni Lalle, Gabi, Niger, Guidan Sori, Safo, Niger, Tama, Niger, Chadakori, Dogonkiria, Garagoumsa, Kao, Niger, Moa, Niger, Sae Saboua, Foulatari, Bankilare, Dioundiou, Djiratawa, Guidiguir, Illela Department, Tsernaoua, Bagaroua, Dakoussa, Garhanga, Guecheme, Karofane, Kirtachi, Korahane, Ollelewa, Ourafane, Tabotaki, Tchadoua, Toumour, Bambeye, Daouche, Doumega, Dungass, Fabidji, Falenko, Gaffati, Gazaoua, Hamdara, Illela, Niger, Kornaka, Koygolo, Mirriah Department, Sakoira, Sambera, Sokorbe, Tabalak, Tamaske, Tassara, Tebaram, Tirmini, Barmou, Bazaga, Bengou, Dargol, Deoule, Falmey, Gouchi, Kourni, Tillia, Yekoua, Boune, Droum, Gamou, Gouna, Kiota, Koona, Ourno, Sanam, Tamou, Wacha, Yelou, Wame, Magaria, Say, Niger, El Allassane Maireyrey, Dogondoutchi Department, N'gourti, Boboye Department, Gaya Department...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6947013 ... Read more

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Niger. Geography of Niger, History of Niger, Politics of Niger, Regions of Niger, Departments of Niger, Communes of Niger, Foreign relations of Niger, Military of Niger, Transport in Niger, Economy of Niger, Agriculture in Niger, Mining industry of Niger, Demographics of Niger, Culture of Niger, Religion in Niger, Islam in Niger, Outline of Niger, Media of Niger, Music of Niger, Cinema of Niger, Niamey, List of cities in Niger ... Read more

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The river Niger, a source of life and danger for the people in impoverished eastern Mali, is also the origin of elaborate mythology.From his travels through Mali and down the Niger in a dugout canoe, Jean-Marie Gibbal has created a personal documentary of the cultures of the region.The result is at once an ethnography of cultures in crisis and a poetic evocation of the environment and people he encountered.

Gibbal portrays the river as the dominant, cohesive force among people in the face of social and environmental strife. He focuses on the Ghimbala healing cult, which centers on the river, and how the cult structures social relations in the region.Gibbal vividly recreations the Ghimbala rites, nocturnal ceremonies of spirit possession and seance which animate the water spirits, or genii, that inhabit the river.The genii, he finds, provide the strength of social identity in a world where famine and competing versions of Islam threaten to overpower traditional culture.

In its original French publication, The Genii of the River Niger was honored with an Alexandra David-Neel literary prize in 1989.Its powerful lyricism, combined with fascinating ethnographic depth, will delight general readers and specialists alike and will stir debates among specialists in African studies, the anthropology of religion, and literature. ... Read more

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There is an underground constellation of spirit possession centers that stretches around the globe.Here we find people in trance, dreams moving to the first rank of importance, and known spirits, gods, and ghosts taking possession of living humans, speaking from their mouths.I'm not asking you to believe in all this.It happens in such places, right before your eyes.You will make of it what you will.That's how we understand "reality" every time, isn't it ?You can read about such things among the Mehinaku of the Amazon rainforest, in the candomble centers of urban Brazil, see it happen at the temple of Balaji in Rajasthan, India, or as I have, at many sites in Goa, or at Kataragama in Sri Lanka.The vision experiences of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, Vailankanni, Guadalupe, Medjugorje, and Fatima are closely related.These are but a few of the myriad places where it occurs.Local spirits seize control of the mind of participants, they go into a trance and speak with another voice.Such persons may also indulge in violent physical movement.Music may accompany such events or not.Jean-Marie Gibbal recorded in great detail the atmosphere and mythology of such a spirit possession cult in a remote region of Mali, along the waterways of the inland Niger River delta.While the detail may be overwhelming for a reader not concerned to learn such things, the writing is extremely poetic, the text free of the indigestible jargon of so many French (and other modern) anthropologists.

As Gibbal's description proceeds, we realize the economic distress of the area in the 1980s: dessication was eating up the land, the water was slowly disappearing, people forced to migrate or die.On top of the ecological/economic pressure, fundamentalist Islam was on the rise, after centuries of another, more mystic Islam that tolerated far more variation in patterns of worship and belief.The strict interpretation of Islam labelled the Ghimbala cult, the cult of the water genii, "a work of the devil".Yet the gaw, or healer-priests, persisted.Gibbal traces some history of the cult, describes the ceremonies, tries to understand the different levels of gaw and how they train their successors, and the connection of musicans to gaw.In this aspect, it was pleasingly astonishing to come across the familiar name of Ali Farka Toure, the great Malian musician, who paid homage to the genii and the river cult.You meet him far from the covers of CDs sold in urban music stores or on the net.

What makes this book a 5 star one for me, however, is not the wealth of detail supplied about the river genii and the ceremonies conducted with their participation.Nor is it even the poetic nature of the text.I admired this book because of the honesty and thought of the author.He puts himself in the picture to a great extent.He does not hide beside some curtain of "objectivity".He admits that he too was influenced by the spirits he studied, thereby---I felt---admitting his common humanity with the people he studied, not trying to laugh off their beliefs with a superior European shrug of the shoulders.Above all, I liked his comparison of anthropologists to artists.The painter allows himself to be penetrated by the surrounding world, then tries to interpret that relationship for others.A true anthropologist does the same.A work of anthropology, like a work of art, is not a piece of reality---it is an attempt to interpret reality.You cannot express a dream or Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in words.Nor can you do the same for a culture or even a small part of a culture.So much is lost in translation from one world to another, from one language to another.Gibbal argues this point wonderfully well.This is a rare book.
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Title: The Conquest of the Niger by Land and Sea: From the Early Explorers and Pioneer Steamships to Elder Dempster and Company.(Brief Article)
Author: Geoffrey Dempsey
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v163Issue: n3Page: p313(2)

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J. Murray in 1829 in 211 pages; Subjects: Niger River; Africa; Fiction / Classics; History / Africa / General; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / General; Travel / Africa / General; ... Read more

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First published in 1855, this is an account of a British government-financed expedition to further European commercial interests in West Africa. It details the surveying of sites for future missions which has a profound effect on the history of Southern Nigeria. ... Read more

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Course Note 41 represents a unique documentation of the wide variety of structural styles in the offshore Niger Delta region. Twenty-five seismic profiles are presented for their structural and sequential stratigraphic interpretation. Each is accompanied by instructions and discussion and keyed to a line drawing of a regional profile. These materials, together with background information and a reprint of a key article, not only provide a realistic context for geologic education but they are also highly relevant to global deepwater exploration.

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Niger," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Niger in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Niger when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Niger, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Niger," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Niger in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Niger when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Niger, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on August 29, 2001. The length of the article is 847 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Un planeta llamado Níger.(breves notas sobre gobierno, geografía, cultura)(TT: A planet called Niger.)(TA: brief notes on government, geography, culture)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Jorge V. Jaime
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 29, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48Issue: 2515Page: 44

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Why has sustained attention on developing Niger Delta by successive Nigerian governments failed to translate into sustainable development for he oil-rich region? Why has the Niger Delta region become 'almost a permanent theatre of conflict', in spite of various efforts at resolving the conflict by the Nigerian state and increased spending on Corporate Social Responsibility by oil transnationals? These and more are the questions that engaged the attention of the contributors to this book. In nine chapters, eight contributors with a multi-disciplnary background and robust scholarly interest in the Niger Delta critically review the extant strategies for development intervention and conflict resolution in the troubled region. Though the contributors address a variety of themes, they are in fact, making one argument, namely, that the extant development intervention and conflict resolution strategies in the Niger Delta are cosmetic and hardly go deep enough to address the issues at the root of the crisis of development and endemic conflict in the region. As placebos, and not medicine, the adopted strategies create the false impression that something is being done about the Niger Delta, whereas in actual sense, what is on offer is grossly inadequate to provide a solution to the twin problems of lack of development and conflict. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Niger Delta Vigilante (NDV) is an armed militia group in Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The NDV is led by Ateke Tom. The group is composed primarily by ethnic Ijaws from in and around Port Harcourt and their main goal is controlling the area's vast oil resources. In late 2003 the NDV precipitated a conflict with their rival Ijaw ethnic militia, the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF). The two groups spent most of 2004 in an escalating conflict which was ended when the Nigerian government and military eventually intervened on the side of the NDV in summer of 2004. The government's support of the NDV would eventually precipitate the Nigerian oil crisis, beginning in October 2004. ... Read more

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Le Niger, officiellement la République du Niger, est unpays d'Afrique de l'Ouest steppique, situé entre l'Algérie,le Bénin, le Burkina Faso, le Tchad, la Libye, le Mali etle Nigeria. La capitale est Niamey. Les habitants sont desNigériens (ceux du Nigeriasont des Nigérians). Le paysest multiethnique et constitue une terre de contact entrel'Afrique noire et l'Afrique du Nord. Les plus importantesressources naturelles du Niger sont l'or, le fer, lecharbon, l'uranium et le pétrole. Certains animaux, commeles éléphants, les lions et les girafes, sont en danger dedisparition en raison de la destruction de la forêt et dubraconnage. Le dernier troupeau de girafes en liberté detoute l'Afrique de l'Ouest évolue dans les environs duvillage de Kouré, à 60 km de la capitale Niamey. D'autrepart, une réserve portant le nom de "Parc du W" (à causedes sinuosités du fleuve Niger à cet endroit) se trouve surle territoire de trois pays : le Niger, le Bénin et leBurkina Faso. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Railway stations in Niger. Currently there are no railways in Niger, but some railways are proposed. Niger, officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, over 80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey. ... Read more