African words, African voices
Subtitle: critical practices in oral history
By: edited by Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen.
Contributors: White, Luise.; Miescher, Stephan.; Cohen, David William.
Series: African systems of thought
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Oral tradition -- Africa.; Africa -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART 1. GIVING AFRICA A HISTORY; title: 1. The Construction of Luo Identity and History; title: BethwellA. Ogot / 31; title: 2. Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony; title: Megan Vaughan / 53; title: 3. John Bunyan, His Chair, and a Few Other Relics: Orality, Literacy, and; title: the Limits of Area Studies Isabel Hofmeyr / 78; title: 4. The Dialogue between Academic and Community History; title: in Nigeria E. J. Alagoa / 91; title: 5. The Birth of the Interview: The Thin and the Fat of It; title: Abdullahi A. Ibrahim / 103; title: PART 2. AFRICAN LIVES; title: 6. Conversations and Lives Corinne A. Kratz / 127; title: 7. The Life Histories of Boakye Yiadom (Akasease Kofi of Abetifi,; title: Kwawu): Exploring the Subjectivity and "Voices" of a Teacher-; title: Catechist in Colonial Ghana Stephan F. Miescher / 162; title: 8. Lives, Histories, and Sites of Recollection; title: Tamara Giles-Vernick / 194; title: 9. Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders,; title: Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945-1996; title: Babacar Fall / 214; title: PART 3. AFRICAN IMAGINATIONS; title: 10. Nana Ampadu, the Sung-Tale Metaphor, and Protest Discourse in; title: Contemporary Ghana Kwesi Yankah / 227; title: 11. Voice, Authority, and Memory: The Kiswahili Recordings of; title: Siti binti Saadi Laura Fair / 246; title: 12. In a Nation of White Cars One White Car, or "A White Car,"; title: Becomes a Truth David William Cohen / 264; title: 13. True Stories: Narrative, Event, History, and Blood in the; title: Lake Victoria Basin Luise White / 281; title: Participants in the "Words and Voices" Conference at Bellagio /; title: Participants in the "Words and Voices" Follow-up Conference; title: at Ann Arbor / 306; title: Contributors / 307; title: Index / 311.