An Ka Bamanankan Kalan: Introductory Bambara
Charles Bird, John Hutchison, Mamadou KantéThere 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 the accompanying texts on Agriculture and Poultry were designed to respond to that need. These Bambara lessons were prepared in late 1972 and early 1973. 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 the descriptive linguistic realm 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.