Beginning Bambara-An Ka Bamanankan Kalan
Subtitle: Introductory Bambara
Publisher: Indiana University Linguistics Club
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Description: The material which follows was developed by the Government of the United States of America, represented by the Office of International Operations, ACTION, under contract No. PC-180-N. 20 Mr. John Priestley Hutchinson.

There has been a long felt need in Peace Corps training programs in Mali for a complete set of Bambara teaching materials. This basic text and accompanying text on Agriculture and Poultry were designed to respond to that need. These Bamabara lessons were prepared in late 1972 and 1973 under non-personal services contract No. PC-180-No. 20 between the authors and Peace Corps Mali. The ensemble is designed to provide a large quantity of teaching materials in a well organized fashion, which can be easily adapted to the Bambara needs of any given program in Mali.

We have tried to avoid any theoretical prejudice in either the applied or descriptive linguistic realms in hopes that the results may be useful to anyone supervising their use. We have, therefore, tried to include a full spectrum of language lesson devices, many of which have been used successfully by the Peace Corps in recent years. Thus, various distinct elements of this text have been printed separately so the master text will lend itself to adaptation, selection, and rejection.

The original edition of this text was produced for the Peace Corps by John Hutchinson and Mamadou Kante. It was reproduced in a small quantity of (100 copies) in two volumes of ten lessons each by African Studies Center, Indiana University.

The Third Edition includes some notifications and corrections in the text, although in principle it remains much the same as the second edition.

We thank the editors of the Linguistics Club for their efforts in making this Third Edition. C.S.B, M.K. July 1977