The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia (Sources and Studies in World History)

Drawing on written and oral testimony, Donald Wright locates a tiny place in Africa's smallest country within the history of the modern world. We see how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in Niumi, a little-known territory located on the north bank of the Gambia River in West Africa.