African words, African voices : critical practices in oral history /
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | African systems of thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Voices, words, and African history / David William Cohen, Stephan F. Miescher, and Luise White
- The construction of Luo identity and history / Bethwell A. Ogot
- Reported speech and other kinds of testimony / Megan Vaughan
- John Bunyan, his chair, and a few other relics : orality, literacy, and the limits of area studies / Isabel Hofmeyr
- The dialogue between academic and community history in Nigeria / E.J. Alagoa
- The birth of the interview : the thin and the fat of it / Abdullahi A. Ibrahim
- Conversations and lives / Corinne A. Kratz
- 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
- Lives, histories, and sites of recollection / Tamara Giles-Vernick
- Senegalese women in politics : a portrait of two female leaders, Arame Diène and Thioumbé Samb, 1945-1996 / Babacar Fall
- Nana Ampadu, the sung-tale metaphor, and protest discourse in contemporary Ghana / Kwesi Yankah
- Voice, authority, and memory : the Kiswahili recordings of Siti binti Saadi / Laura Fair
- In a nation of white cars...one white car, or "a white car," becomes a truth / David William Cohen
- True stories : narrative, event, history, and blood in the Lake Victoria basin / Luise White.