Oral Tradition as History

Jan Vansina

Reference

James Currey Ltd.

Although written by a leading historian of Africa, Vansina's work on oral traditions ranges far beyond Africa, so has a wider relevance. Vansina explains not only how oral traditions have been used in the past but also how they should be used by historians in their research. North America: University of Wisconsin Press; Kenya: EAEP

Vansina, J.

History

History of Southern Africa

J. D. Omer-Cooper

Africa

Omer-Cooper, J.D.

Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape, 1890-1930

William Beinart

Colin Bundy

The authors of this highly original book set out to remove the persistent boundary between the authors and readers of ethnography on one hand and the subjects of ethnography on the other – those who observe and those who are observed.The authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of Western Kenya down near the Lake but still surprisingly vulnerable to drought. There are the stories of survival by a woman with her carpenter husband in Nairobi, there is the launching of a boat as bride into the Lake and there is the great Boro Christmas disco riot. The book finishes with an Afterword on the burial of the lawyer S. M. Otiono that divided its whole of Kenya.It is both written about and for the Luo. It brings together Luo ideas and debates about their own past and present with findings, arguments and questions produced about this “other people;” by outside scholars writing in their own disciplines. Among the Luo, what constitutes culture, what is correct behavior, what is history, are questions that are heavily fought over.This is one of those rare books that makes students and other interested individuals question their own cultural preconceptions and what are the genuine concerns of academic disciplines.

Siaya : The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape

Politics & Social Sciences

E.S.Atieno Cohe David William; Odhiambo

Anthropology

Eminent historian A. Adu Boahen gives an African perspective on colonialism. A. ADU BOAHEN was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Ghana (Legon), fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences North America: The Johns Hopkins University Press

African Perspectives on Colonialism

Literature & Fiction

Boahen, A.Adu

World Literature

A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 (Eastern African studies)

Bahru Zewde

Penetration and Protest in Tanzania: Impact of the World Economy on the Pare, 1860-1960 (Eastern African studies)

Business & Money

Isaria N. Kimambo

Economics

Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule (Eastern African studies)

Zanzibar stands at the centre of the Indian Ocean system's involvement in the history of Eastern Africa. The first part of the book shows the transition of Zanzibar from the commercial economy of the nineteenth century to the colonial economy of the twentieth century. In the second part the authors analyse social classes and their role in the period culminating in the insurrection of 1964. North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Historical Association of Tanzania

Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule (Eastern African Studies)

Sherif, Abdul & Ferguson, Ed

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