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Title: Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah

Author: Anna Badkhen

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2015-08-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Memoir

Publisher's Summary:

In Walking with Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboysnomadic herders in Malis Sahel grasslandsas they embark on their annual migration across the savanna. Its a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly under threatfrom Islamic militants, climate change, and the ever-encroaching urbanization that lures away their young. The Fulani, though, are no strangers to uncertaintybrilliantly resourceful and resilient, theyve contended with famines, droughts, and wars for centuries.

Dubbed Anna Bâ by the nomads who embrace her as one of their own, Badkhen narrates the Fulanis journeys and her own with compassion and keen observation, transporting us from the Neolithic Sahara crisscrossed by rivers and abundant with wildlife to obelisk forests where the Fulanis Stone Age ancestors painted tributes to cattle. Together they cross the Sahelthe savanna belt that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlanticwith Fulani music they download to their cell phones and tales infused with the myths that ground their past, make sense of their identity, and safeguard their future.

Walking with Abel is a rare and extraordinary book. Anna Badkhen writes with so much precision and soul that practically every line delivers its own revelation. This intrepid writer has given us more than a window into an ancient, and possibly doomed, way of life; she digs down to the very core of what it means to be human.Ben Fountain, National Book Critics Circle Awardwinning author