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THE EPIC OF SUMANGURU KANTE - The Epic of Sumanguru Kante. Narrated by Abdulaye Sako, edited by Stephen P. D. Bulman and Valentin F. Vydrine. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. 172. $80.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-90-04-34796-0); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 978-90-04-34933-9).

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The Epic of Sumanguru Kante. Narrated by Abdulaye Sako, edited by Stephen P. D. Bulman and Valentin F. Vydrine. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. 172. $80.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-90-04-34796-0); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 978-90-04-34933-9).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2019

DAVID C. CONRAD
DAVID C. CONRAD*
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State University of New York at Oswego, emeritus
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The Journal of African History , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 316 - 319
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2 Conrad, D., ‘Mooning armies and mothering heroes: female power in Mande epic tradition’, in Austen, R. (ed.), In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance (Bloomington, IN, 1999), 189–229Google Scholar.

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9 Conrad, ‘Mooning’, 198.

10 There are some minor errors and omissions. The editors' reference to Brett-Smith lacks citation (viii, xi); Sasuma Berete is identified as ‘Sunjata's mother’ (77n26); McIntosh citation should be 2000: 168 (89n58); Bühnen index entry should be 96n81 (165).