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A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an African Boyhood
Baba Wagué is only four years old when he is sent to the tiny Malian village of Kassaro to be raised by his paternal grandparents, according to the family tradition. He is most unhappy about this at first, but under his grandmother’s patient and wise tutelage he comes to love his close-knit village community. He learns how to catch a catfish with his bare hands, flees from...more
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published
February 23rd 2010
by Groundwood Books
(first published 2010)
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Wonderful memoir.
Simple, interesting story of a unique childhood.
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