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Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
By Badkhen, Anna
- ISBN
- 9781594632488 9780698142718
- Publisher
- Riverhead
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Reviewed on June 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Journalist and author Badkhen (The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village) recounts her experience with a multigenerational family of Fulani cattle herders during their annual transhumance migration to greener grazing across a stretch of the Sahel, a grassy region between the Sahara Desert and the Sudanian Savanna. Joining the Fulani in Mali, Badkhen presents vivid descriptions of day and nighttime sky, land and water, and the nomads' cattle an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
