African words, African voices : critical practices in oral history

Author(s)

• White, Luise
• Miescher, Stephan
• Cohen, David William

Bibliographic Information

African words, African voices : critical practices in oral history

edited by Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen

（African systems of thought）

Indiana University Press, c2001

• : paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history. In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources are seen as a way to restore African expression to African history. African Words, African Voices evokes the richness and relevance of oral sources for understanding a complex past for readers at all levels. Contributors include E. J. Alagoa, David William Cohen, Laura Fair, Babacar Fall, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Isabel Hofmeyr, Abdullahi A. Ibrahim, Corinne A. Kratz, Stephan F. Miescher, Bethwell Allan Ogot, Megan Vaughan, Luise White, and Kwesi Yankah.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction: Voices, Words, and African History David William Cohen, Stephan F. Miescher, and Luise White Part 1. Giving Africa a History 1. The Construction of Luo Identity and History Bethwell Allan Ogot 2. Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony Megan Vaughan 3. John Bunyan, His Chair, and a Few Other Relics: Orality, Literacy, and the Limits of Area Studies Isabel Hofmeyr 4. The Dialogue Between Academic and Community History in Nigeria E. J. Alagoa 5. The Birth of the Interview: The Thin and the Fat of It Abdullahi A. Ibrahim Part 2. African Lives 6. Conversations and Lives Corinne A. Kratz 7. The Life Histories of Boakye Yiadom (Akasease Kofi of Abetifi, Kwawu): Exploring the Subjectivity and "Voices" of a Teacher-Catechist in Colonial Ghana Stephan F. Miescher 8. Lives, Histories, and Sites of Recollection Tamara Giles-Vernick 9. Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945-1996 Babacar Fall Part 3. African Imaginations 10. Nana Ampadu, the Sung-Tale Metaphor, and Protest Discourse in Contemporary Ghana Kwesi Yankah 11. Voice, Authority, and Memory: The Kiswahili Recordings of Siti binti Saadi Laura Fair 12. In a Nation of White Cars . . . One White Car, or "A White Car," Becomes a Truth David William Cohen 13. True Stories: Narrative, Event, History, and Blood in the Lake Victoria Basin Luise White Names of Conference Participants Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC07871442
• ISBN:
  • 0253214688
• LCCN: 2001001889
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington, Ind.
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 322 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 960
  • NDC9 : 201
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Oral tradition -- Africa
  • LCSH : Africa -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00361807