THE TIMBUKTU CHRONICLES, 1493-1599 Magic Users serves up necessary advice for

serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays

he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence--and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack--and into the safe arms of Howard University

The book will be on a must-read list for any student of African and Islam politics

ISBN-10 : 0375759530

Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith--published here in their entirety for the first time--Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory

THE TIMBUKTU CHRONICLES, 1493-1599 Magic Users serves up necessary advice for