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Books
Non-Fiction
Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
By Katherine A. Dettwyler
Recommended by GAIA Vaccine Foundation
From Amazon: One of the most widely used ethnographies published in the last twenty years, this Margaret Mead Award winner has been used as required reading at more than 600 colleges and universities.
This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates not-soon-forgotten messages involving the sobering aspects of fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic stories that relate the author’s experiences
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
By Kris Holloway
Recommended by GAIA Vaccine Foundation
From Amazon: What is it like to live and work in a remote corner of the world and befriend a courageous midwife who breaks traditional roles? Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and Kris Holloway, the young Peace Corps volunteer who became her closest confidante.
Films
Recommended by GAIA Vaccine Foundation
From Amazon: The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America’s cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become widespread, dance and secular music are prohibited, musical instruments are destroyed, and musicians are forced to flee their homeland.
Recommended by GAIA Vaccine Foundation
From Amazon: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives – which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith – abruptly disturbed.
Music
Recommended by GAIA Vaccine Foundation
Habib Koite has performed at two benefit concerts for GAIA Vaccine Foundation.
Available on Amazon streaming, CD and vinyl
Recommended by GAIA Vaccine Foundation
Habib Koite has performed at two benefit concerts for GAIA Vaccine Foundation.
Available on Amazon streaming, CD and vinyl