Bibliograph

Riding the demon, on the road in West Africa, Peter Chilson

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Riding the demon, on the road in West Africa, Peter Chilson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index

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maps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Riding the demon

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bibliography

Oclc number

892432206

Responsibility statement

Peter Chilson

Sub title

on the road in West Africa

Summary

Without railroads or domestic airlines, Niger's roads are its lifelines. For a year, Peter Chilson travelled this desert country by automobile, detouring occasionally into Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, in order to tell the story of West African road culture. He criss-crossed the same roads again and again with bush taxi driver Issoufou Garba in order to learn one driver's story inside and out. He hitchhiked, riding in cotton trucks, and he also travelled with other bush taxi drivers, truckers, road engineers, an anthropologist, Niger's only licensed woman commercial driver and a customs officer

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