New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio
By: edited by Mac Dixon-Fyle, Gibril Cole.
Contributors: Dixon-Fyle, Mac, 1948-; Cole, Gibril Raschid, 1955-
Series: American university studies.; v. 204
Publisher: New York
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Peter Lang
Language: eng
Subjects: Creoles (Sierra Leone); Creoles (Sierra Leone) -- Sierra Leone -- Freetown.; Krio language.; Freetown (Sierra Leone) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Akintola Wyse : creator of the Krio myth / Christopher Fyfe; value: E-thinking the demographic make-up of Krio society / Gibril Cole; value: The Sierra Leone Carrier Corps and Krio responses to recruitment in World War I / Festus Cole; value: We have the cause of Africa at heart : West Indians and African-Americans in 19th century Freetown / Nemata Blyden; value: Rescuing the footnoted : immigrant Krio travails on the Niger, 1865-1926 / Mac Dixon-Fyle; value: Nuggets of Krio wisdom : structure, figurative language, and the construction of meaning in the Krio proverb / Sheikeh Kamarah; value: The Krio language : diglossic and political realities / Abdul Bangura; value: Aborigines and returnees : in search of linguistic and historical meaning in delineations of Sierra Leone's ethnicity and heritage / Joko Sengova; value: Re-lighting Sierra Leonean history : a comparative study of the re-interpretation of aspects of Sierra Leonean history by Syl Cheney-Coker and Yema Lucilda Hunter / Eustace Palmer; value: Creolization and Kriodom : (re) visioning the Sierra Leone experiment / Tom Spencer-Walters; value: Road to freedom : history and the creative imagination / Alex Johnson; value: Women's associations and female education in Sierra Leone / Filomena Steady; value: After partition / John Hargreaves; value: A bibliography of the Freetown/Krio experience / Joyce Dixon-Fyle.