Region: Niger

Materials from Niger

The Shadow Speaker

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Niger, West Africa, 2070: After fifteen-year old Ejii witnesses her father’s beheading, her world shatters. In an era of mind-blowing technology and seductive magic, Ejii embarks on a mystical journey to track down her father’s killer. With a newfound friend by her side, Ejii comes face to face with an earth turned inside out–and with [...]

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One Night: A Story from the Desert

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Muhamad, a young Tuareg boy, sets out to prove himself by caring for his father’s goats alone overnight in the desert and finds his night enlived by a pregnant goat about to give birth, in a poetic look at the lives of the Tuareg people of the Sudan.

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