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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827968003321

Autore

Maiga Hassimi Oumarou

Titolo

Balancing written history with oral tradition : the legacy of the Songhoy people / / Hassimi Oumarou Maiga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-22703-9

1-282-28350-2

9786612283505

0-203-87205-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

African Studies

Disciplina

305.896/5

966

Soggetti

Songhai (African people) - History

Songhai Empire History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Photographs; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Long Journey from East Africa to West Africa; 2 The Empires of Ghana and Mali; 3 Gao: From Its Origins to the City of the Askyas; 4 Diverse Socio-cultural Aspects of the City of Gao; 5 From the Age of Kingdoms to the Age of Empires; 6 From the Empire Age to the Bureaucratic Age: The Askya Dynasty; 7 Invasions and European Domination; 8 Traditional Songhoy Society; 9 The Songhoy Oral Tradition: Riddles and Story Telling; 10 Songhoy Writing Traditions

11 Religion, Belief, and Spirituality12 The Legacy of the Songhoy People; 13 Selected African Contributions to the Development of the New World and France; 14 A Legacy of African Integration; 15 Towards Pan African Integration; Postface; Afterword; Appendices; Biographical Information; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that documents the oral and



literate traditions of the Songhoy people, Hassimi Oumarou Maiga offers a unique interpretation of indigenous Songhoy-African perspectives on African history, culture and education from antiquity to the present day and from continental Africa to the worldwide African Diaspora. In explaining the cosmology, philosophy, val