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

""In revising and updating this work, Donald Wright has done the seemingly impossible: he has significantly improved what I have long considered the best teaching book on Africa. Extensively researched, analytic, and inter-disciplinary in approach, the book is equally suited for first-year World or African History surveys, upper level West African classes, and graduate courses on the Atlantic. Extensive interviews done in 2003 give a poignant immediacy to the book, and the photographs and maps match the text well, promoting further understanding among readers who are unfamiliar with the area."

Focusing on Niumi, a small settlement at the mouth of a river in the Gambia, this book provides an insight into the effects of globalization on this small African country, and places these events into deep historical context.