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Bonnie L. Hewlett. 2012. Listen, Here is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 258 pp.
"Listen, here is a story that I want to tell. This is the life of me, a woman who lives here in Nambele. This is the life of women and how the life for women here has been going for many, many years" (p. 227) - Blondine, an Ngandu woman
When you look in the news for the Central African Republic you encounter stories about rebels, terror, civil war, murder, and bloodshed. But what are the other aspects of life in the region that no news agency covers? A journey to the center of the African rainforest reveals what happens and has been happening for many years to the region's inhabitants. In Listen, Here is a Story, Bonnie L. Hewlett deals with the different aspects of women's lives of the Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers in this region of the Central African Republic, specifically, and reveals the social, political, cultural, and ideological dimensions in life of these people, generally. There are few studies...