Women’s Songs in Post-crisis Côte d’Ivoire: “Ask Gbagbo . . .”

From the Series: Côte d'Ivoire Is Cooling Down? Reflections a Year after the Battle for Abidjan

Carol Spindel, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Carol Spindel's Women’s Songs in Post-crisis Côte d’Ivoire: “Ask Gbagbo…” comes to us from the Afropop Worldwide blog.

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Carol Spindel is the author of In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove, a moving memoir of her stay in the pseudonymous Senufo village of Kalikaha. The book vividly conveys the author's experience of daily rural life in northern Côte d’Ivoire.

Senufo women singers in Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire. Photo by Carol Spindel.

References

[1] Spindel, Carol. 2012. Women’s Songs in Post-crisis Côte d’Ivoire: “Ask Gbagbo…”Afropop Worldwide, January 18 (accessed November 5, 2011).