African Sources for African History
Editorial Board: Dmitri van den Bersselaar (University of Liverpool), Michel Doortmont (University of Groningen), Jan Jansen (University of Leiden)
Editorial Board
Editorial Board:
Dmitri van den Bersselaar (University of Liverpool), Michel Doortmont (University of Groningen), Jan Jansen (University of Leiden)
Advisory Board:
Ralph A. Austen (University of Chicago USA ), Wim van Binsbergen (African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands), Karin Barber (Center of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK), Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany), John H. Hanson (University of Indiana, USA), David Henige (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA), Eisei Kurimoto (Osaka University, Japan), Claude-Hélène Perrot (Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Dmitri van den Bersselaar (University of Liverpool), Michel Doortmont (University of Groningen), Jan Jansen (University of Leiden)
Advisory Board:
Ralph A. Austen (University of Chicago USA ), Wim van Binsbergen (African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands), Karin Barber (Center of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK), Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany), John H. Hanson (University of Indiana, USA), David Henige (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA), Eisei Kurimoto (Osaka University, Japan), Claude-Hélène Perrot (Sorbonne, Paris, France)
€79.00$110.00
This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas's pioneering work, "The Life-Story of Me, Segilola", first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos newspaper in 1929-30, but now acclaimed as the first Yoruba novel.
€97.00$126.00
This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma communities in northwestern Tanzania.
€73.00$95.00
Based on the Gikuyu-language pamphlet literature of the 1940s, the family history of the writer Henry Muoria, and a daughter's memory, this book illuminates the political challenges faced by Kenya's first nationalists and the domestic sacrifices that politics demanded
€81.00$105.00
Cette première édition critique d'un manuscrit écrit en arabe et mandinka focalise l'importance des communautés mandinka et jakhanké dans la construction et la préservation de la mémoire collective de l' "empire" païen du Kaabu en Sénégambie. ...
€64.00$83.00
This book is a bilingual (Maninkakan [ Malinké] - French) presentation of narratives by an old blacksmith, Bala Kanté. The narratives are strikingly coherent in the sense that they use indigenous models for historic causation to recount of the changes Mali has gone through in the 20th century.
€81.00$105.00
The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text ...
€185.00$240.00
This source publication provides a comprehensive picture of the administration of Islamic justice and the social and economic life of Brava, a coastal town in Southern Somalia, during a transitional period from de facto internal autonomy to Italian colonial rule.
€47.00$61.00
This sourcebook contains some of the finest Mandinka oral traditions ever published, emphasizing history and witchcraft. Along with some Arabic texts in translation, these texts reveal Mandinka to be a significant West African literature and worthy contributor to the broader Mande legacy.
€47.00$61.00
This book is based on an articulate oral rendition of the history of the Haayre by Aamadu Baa Digi, a griot at the court of Dalla. It was made at the request of two anthropologists, Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk, with permission of the then ruling leader. This fascinating part of history of ...
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