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The Bambara Kingdom of Segu: Mali
(African Studies series)
VHS
19 minutes
DT551.45 .B35 B351 1992
In this program we learn something of the past of the Bambara, and we can imagine more from the extraordinary architecture of their ancient villages. A large, flourishing culture, the Bambara lived by collecting enslaved Africans and reselling them to North Africa and the Western Hemisphere; when the slave trade was abolished in Europe, the economic decline of the Bambara followed. As new economic bases were created, a new Bambara civilization emerged, which has retained the artistic vigor of its forebears.
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