Book jacket of Richard Dooling's White Man's Grave

Praise For White Man’s Grave

1994 National Book Award Finalist

New York Times Notable Book of 1994

Review Excerpts

“A bravura display of satire . . . Dooling evokes the humane checks and balances of a deep world: the logic, you might say, of its magic.”– Richard Eder, L.A. Times.

“The book is absolutely astonishing; I am a Richard Dooling fan for life.”–Phillip M. Margolin, author of Gone, But Not Forgotten and After Dark.

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I spent seven months in Sierra Leone in the early 1980s and thoroughly researched everything I’d heard about over there. Unfortunately the books I used are found only in libraries.

White Man’s Grave Background Books:
  • The Mende Of Sierra Leone, By Kenneth Little;
  • Mende Religion, By Anthony Gittins;
  • The Springs Of Mende Conduct and Belief, By Harris Sawyerr.