An edition of African words, African voices
(2001)
African words, African voices
critical practices in oral history
by Luise White and Stephan Miescher
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African Words, African Voices considers African history as an art incorporating the experience and testimony of ordinary Africans. It is a provoative volume that evokes the richness and relevance of oral sources for understanding a complex past.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART 1. GIVING AFRICA A HISTORY
1. The Construction of Luo Identity and History
BethwellA. Ogot / 31
2. Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony
Megan Vaughan / 53
3. John Bunyan, His Chair, and a Few Other Relics: Orality, Literacy, and
the Limits of Area Studies Isabel Hofmeyr / 78
4. The Dialogue between Academic and Community History
in Nigeria E. J. Alagoa / 91
5. The Birth of the Interview: The Thin and the Fat of It
Abdullahi A. Ibrahim / 103
PART 2. AFRICAN LIVES
6. Conversations and Lives Corinne A. Kratz / 127
7. The Life Histories of Boakye Yiadom (Akasease Kofi of Abetifi,
Kwawu): Exploring the Subjectivity and "Voices" of a Teacher-
Catechist in Colonial Ghana Stephan F. Miescher / 162
8. Lives, Histories, and Sites of Recollection
Tamara Giles-Vernick / 194
9. Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders,
Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945-1996
Babacar Fall / 214
PART 3. AFRICAN IMAGINATIONS
10. Nana Ampadu, the Sung-Tale Metaphor, and Protest Discourse in
Contemporary Ghana Kwesi Yankah / 227
11. Voice, Authority, and Memory: The Kiswahili Recordings of
Siti binti Saadi Laura Fair / 246
12. In a Nation of White Cars One White Car, or "A White Car,"
Becomes a Truth David William Cohen / 264
13. True Stories: Narrative, Event, History, and Blood in the
Lake Victoria Basin Luise White / 281
Participants in the "Words and Voices" Conference at Bellagio /
Participants in the "Words and Voices" Follow-up Conference
at Ann Arbor / 306
Contributors / 307
Index / 311.
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