Research Catalog

Title

Oral tradition and oral history in Africa and the Diaspora : theory and practice / edited by E.J. Alagoa.

Publication

[Nigeria] : Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, Lagos for Nigerian Association for Oral History and Tradition, c1990.

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Additional Authors

Alagoa, Ebiegberi Joe

Description

xx, 335 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Oral history
• History > Research > Africa
• African diaspora

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-326) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• African oral traditions and oral history from within and without / E.J Alagoa (7 p.). -- Oral traditions in Uganda and Nigeria / Ade Adefuye (7 p.). -- Traditions of migration in equatorial Africa and historical reconstruction / Jan Vansina (9 p.). -- Collecting oral sources for the history of Mozambique : / Teresa Maria Santos Oliveira (7 p.). -- The problem of quantification in oral tradition / Justus B Mugaju (10 p.). -- On values and oral tradition : / G.N Uzoigwe (9 p.). -- Interpreting oral traditions as an historical source and the use of models : / M.R Doortmont (13 p.). -- Uses of Afro-American oral history / Garrusibm Akferdteen (5 p.). -- The Black experience in Central America / Thomas M Leonard (13 p.).
• Oral tradition and the writing of history / S.P. M'bra Ekanza (8 p.). -- Tape-recording, transcribing, translating, publishing and presenting oral tradition / S.O.O Amali (4 p.). -- Transcription in Nigerian languages / Kay Williamson (8 p.). -- The collection of village oral traditions in Senegal / C Becker (8 p.). -- Oriki Orile as sources of historical data / S.O Babayemi (9 p.). -- Ifa literary corpus as a source-book of Yoruba history : / Titi Euba (10 p.). -- Class formation and the transformtaion of oral traditions : / R.M Shain (13 p.). -- Traditions of origin of the Idoma-Yala people / E.O Erim (8 p.). -- Language shift and oral tradition : / Adaye Orugbani (6 p.). -- Stereotypes in oral tradition / N.C Ejituwu (9 p.).
• Oral traditions and chronology : / Bawuru M Barkindo (13 p.). -- The Luo of Western Kenya, 1500-1800 / Atieno Odhiambo (12 p.). -- Oral tradition and Etsako political history before the Nipe Invasion of 1860 / Hakeem B Harunah (6 p.). -- Oral tradition and Nigerian art / Dele Jegede (9 p.). -- African oral traditions and the research sources (1828-1986) / Tunde Okanlawon (13 p.). -- Oral traditions in African literature in French / Stella M.A Johnson (8 p.). -- Oral tradition in Nigerian literature in translation : / J.O] Abioye (6 p.). -- African oral traditions, truth, and the creative imagination / F.B.C Akporobaro (10 p.). -- A preliminary study of the anthropological implications of central Ijo traditions of Origin / A Defefaka (7 p.). -- Oral historiography and the history of technology in Nigeria : / Gloria Thomas- Emeagwali (9 p.). -- Elite oral history at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs : / A. Olugboyega Banjo (5 p.). -- NTA's (Nigerian Television Authority) policies and practices for recording, processing and preserving materials of historical value / Cordelia Eke (5 p.). -- The place of oral history in the centre fo Black and African Arts and Civilization / A.C Onwumah (4 p.). -- The role of Nigerian National Archives in the collection of oral tradition and oral history / F.O Babalola (4 p.).

ISBN

9783004339 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^97112604^

OCLC

• 36858097
• SCSB-12318440

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library