Research Catalog

Title

African historiography : essays in honour of Jacob Ade Ajayi / edited by Toyin Falola.

Publication

Harlow ; Ikeja, Nigeria : Longman, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Falola, Toyin.
• Ajayi, J. F. Ade.

Description

ix, 244 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Ajayi, J. F. Ade
• Africa > Historiography

Note

• "Appendix: Curriculum vitae of Jacob Ajayi"--P. 228-234.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Jacob Ajayi, historian / Robert Smith -- Oral tradition and oral history in Africa / E.J. Alagoa -- The oral traditionist as critic and intellectual producer / P.F. de Moraes Farias -- Colonial historiography / A.E. Afigbo -- The roots of Yoruba historiography / Michel R. Doortmont -- Between Crowther and Ajayi / J.D.Y. Peel -- Ade Ajayi on Samuel Johnson / Toyin Falola -- The historiography of the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa / Robin Law -- The traditional Muslim intellectual in Hausaland / Murray Last -- Trends in the study of education in Africa / Michael Omolewa -- Studies on missions in Africa / Felix K. Ekechi -- African church historiography / Ogbu U. Kalu -- New approaches to the history of mission Christianity / Terence Ranger -- The Ibadan school of historiography and its critics / Paul E. Lovejoy -- "Africanist" historiography and its critics / Ralph A. Austen -- African studies in the 1980s / Bogumil Jewsiewicki.

Call Number

JFE 94-10434

ISBN

• 0582079357 (U.K.)
• 9781397489 (Nigeria)

OCLC

• 29636159
• NYPG94-B31681

Title

African historiography : essays in honour of Jacob Ade Ajayi / edited by Toyin Falola.

Imprint

Harlow ; Ikeja, Nigeria : Longman, 1993.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Falola, Toyin.

Ajayi, J. F. Ade.

Research Call Number

JFE 94-10434

Sc E 95-441