Nearly native, barely civilized
Subtitle: Henri Gaden's journey through colonial French West Africa (1894-1939)
By: by Roy Dilley
Series: African history -- volume 3; African history (Brill Academic Publishers) -- v. 3.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9789004250963; 9789004265288
Subjects: Colonial administrators; Biography; Linguists; Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A funeral: Thursday, 14th December 1939; title: Gironde, Paris and beyond; title: Agent of commerce, African novice: from Bordeaux to Bandiagara, 1894-1896; title: Interlude: furlough in France I; title: On the trail of the Black Napoleon, 1897-1899; title: Interlude: furlough in France II; title: The mallam and the qadis: a posting to Zinder, 1900-1903; title: Interlude: furlough in France III; title: Cherchez la femme: Tchekna, Chad, 1904-1907; title: Interlude: furlough in France IV; title: Confidential relations: Boutilimit, Mauritania, 1908-1911; title: Interlude: furlough in France V; title: Paperwork and bullets: the years of scholarship and war, 1912-18; title: Governor, savant, adopted son: St Louis, 1919-1927; title: The monk of St Louis, 1927-1939.