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200 10$aBalancing written history with oral tradition$b[electronic resource] $ethe legacy of the Songhoy people /$fHassimi Oumarou Mai?ga
210   $aNew York $cRoutledge$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (231 p.)
225 1 $aAfrican Studies
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aBook 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
327   $a11 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
330   $aBy 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
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