LEADER 03392nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910827968003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-22703-9 010 $a1-282-28350-2 010 $a9786612283505 010 $a0-203-87205-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000783981 035 $a(EBL)446877 035 $a(OCoLC)444704959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000335012 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11266969 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335012 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10271614 035 $a(PQKB)10667596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC446877 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL446877 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10330946 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL228350 035 $a(OCoLC)1287180188 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB156158 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000783981 100 $a20080328d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBalancing written history with oral tradition $ethe legacy of the Songhoy people /$fHassimi Oumarou Maiga 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cRoutledge$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 225 1 $aAfrican Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-64603-0 311 $a0-415-96351-6 320 $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 $aBy balancing written history with the African oral tradition, this book conceptualizes the integrations among diverse peoples of Africa and specifically among the Songhoy people. Drawing from a number of academic disciplines and original research that documents the oral and literate traditions of the Songhoy people, Hassimi Oumarou Maiga offers a unique interpretation of indigenous Songhoy-African perspectives on African history, culture and education from antiquity to the present day and from continental Africa to the worldwide African Diaspora. In explaining the cosmology, philosophy, val 410 0$aAfrican studies (Routledge (Firm)) 606 $aSonghai (African people)$xHistory 607 $aSonghai Empire$xHistory 615 0$aSonghai (African people)$xHistory. 676 $a305.896/5 676 $a966 700 $aMaiga$b Hassimi Oumarou$01673798 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827968003321 996 $aBalancing written history with oral tradition$94038142 997 $aUNINA