The Children of SeguViking, 1989 - 429 pages In the exciting sequel to Segu, Maryse Conde paints a richly complex portraitof the troubled African continent during the second half of the 19th century. |
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... walls would shoot out iron balls that left a trail of death in their wake . Every evening the Tukulors gathered up hundreds of bodies so horribly mangled that one couldn't tell the head from the limbs . Every morning they launched ...
... walls would shoot out iron balls that left a trail of death in their wake . Every evening the Tukulors gathered up hundreds of bodies so horribly mangled that one couldn't tell the head from the limbs . Every morning they launched ...
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... walls and sent out small detachments to join their allies , finishing up Fulani mischief with Bambara swords and battle - axes . At the end of each day , there were never less than twenty wounded in one camp or another . Muhammad ...
... walls and sent out small detachments to join their allies , finishing up Fulani mischief with Bambara swords and battle - axes . At the end of each day , there were never less than twenty wounded in one camp or another . Muhammad ...
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... walls of Segu like gaping wounds . Across the river they could see the gunboats and murderous machines that had taken only minutes to destroy the patient work of their ancestors . Children hefted the dense earthen blocks of rubble with ...
... walls of Segu like gaping wounds . Across the river they could see the gunboats and murderous machines that had taken only minutes to destroy the patient work of their ancestors . Children hefted the dense earthen blocks of rubble with ...
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