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"How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches in our lives? How do we stitch cultural differences, join disparate worlds, to create something both beautiful and useful? [The author] subtly addresses these universal questions through vivid stories of her life-changing experience living and working in the fabled city of Ségou, Mali, in West Africa. At the request of a talented group of Malian seamstresses, [she] taught them the craft of American patchwork quilting and spearheaded an economic-development effort called the Patchwork Project. She has now created a many-layered patchwork quilt of a book that brings that time and place--and all its colorful characters--to life on the page. Threaded throughout is the fictional narrative of Jeneba, a slave-quilter in the antebellum American South who had been kidnapped from the Kingdom of Ségou as a child, as well as the real voices of Malian women who took part in the Patchwork Project."--
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Social life and customs, Women, Quilting, Quiltmakers, Slave narratives, Fiction, Patchwork Project (Ségou, Mali)People
Bonnie Lee BlackPlaces
Ségou (Mali), Mali, Ségou, United StatesShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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How to make an African quilt: the story of the Patchwork Project of Ségou, Mali
2013, Nighthawk Press
in English
0615773397 9780615773391
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The author served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon before working in Mali.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-257).
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