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A gift from childhood : memories of an African boyhood / Baba Wagu�e Diakit�e.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, Ont. ; Berkeley, CA : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010.Description: 134 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0888999313
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 966.23 22
Summary: A memoir in which Baba Diakite recalls the time he spent as a child with his grandparents in a tiny Malian village where he learned to catch a catfish with his bare hands, listened to his grandmother's stories, and soaked in other life lessons until it was decided he was educated enough to attend school in the city where his talents as an artist and storyteller were nurtured.
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A memoir in which Baba Diakite recalls the time he spent as a child with his grandparents in a tiny Malian village where he learned to catch a catfish with his bare hands, listened to his grandmother's stories, and soaked in other life lessons until it was decided he was educated enough to attend school in the city where his talents as an artist and storyteller were nurtured.

7.0.

5-8 Follett Library Resources.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.5 4.0 136861.

Text mainly in English with some Bambara.