Balancing written history with oral tradition : the legacy of the Songhoy people / / Hassimi Oumarou Maiga
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| Autore: |
Maiga Hassimi Oumarou
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| Titolo: |
Balancing written history with oral tradition : the legacy of the Songhoy people / / Hassimi Oumarou Maiga
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/5 |
| 966 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Songhai (African people) - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | Songhai Empire History |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Balancing written history with oral tradition |
| ISBN: | 1-135-22703-9 |
| 1-282-28350-2 | |
| 9786612283505 | |
| 0-203-87205-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827968003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
African studies (Routledge (Firm))