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Servants Of The Sharia - The Civil Register Of The Qadis' Court Of Brava 1893-1900, Volume Ii

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 This volume contains the full Qadi Records of Brava (1893 - 1900). The importance of these records for those studying Southern Somalia and the Swahili coast cannot be overestimated. The register is like a daily journal of events in a typical Swahili town. The information in the records covers a wide range of issues: Slavery, the role of women and their usage of the court system in the 19th century, the role of the Ulama, trade, inheritance, et cetera. The register is signed and stamped by the Italian Commander/governor in Asmara, Eritrea where it was taken and authenticated and bears the Official Stamp of the Royal Italian Government. This volume contains both the Arabic original and a translation into English. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004131224).
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Servants Of The Sharia - The Civil Register Of The Qadis' Court Of Brava 1893-1900, Volume I

~~197,43€~~ 177,69€ 10% OFF

 This volume contains the full Qadi Records of Brava (1893 - 1900). The importance of these records for those studying Southern Somalia and the Swahili coast cannot be overestimated. The register is like a daily journal of events in a typical Swahili town. The information in the records covers a wide range of issues: Slavery, the role of women and their usage of the court system in the 19th century, the role of the Ulama, trade, inheritance, et cetera. The register is signed and stamped by the Italian Commander/governor in Asmara, Eritrea where it was taken and authenticated and bears the Official Stamp of the Royal Italian Government. This volume contains both the Arabic original and a translation into English. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004131224).
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Writing For Kenya - The Life And Works Of Henry Muoria

by Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Derek Peterson, John Lonsdale e Wangari Muoria-Sal

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 Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.
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Ta:Rikh Mandinka De Bijini (Guinee-Bissau) - La Memoire Des Mandinka Et Des Sooninkee Du Kaabu

by Cornelia Giesing e Valentin Vydrine

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 Ce tome presente le Ta:rikh Mandinka, un manuscrit redige en Arabe et en Mandinka, originaire du village de Bijini en Guinee-Bissau. Inedit jusqu'a present, le manuscrit consiste en une compilation structuree et tres originale sur le Kaabu, reunissant divers recits et chroniques focalisant les debuts mythiques et la chute de cet empire paien au milieu du 19ieme siecle.Deux versions du manuscrit et plusieurs interpretations (lectures) du Ta:rikh sont reproduites, transcrites, traduites et analysees en tenant compte de questions philologiques, historiques et anthropologiques. L'analyse regarde la communaute clericale de Bijini en tant que lieu de transmission de savoirs dans un contexte local et regional.Le point focal du livre est l'importance de la diaspora clericale des Mandinka et Jaakanka (Jakhanke) dans le processus de la construction de l'histoire de l' empire sooninkee du Kaabu en Senegambie. Le tome contient un glossaire des noms et des termes mentionnes par les sources, des illustrations, des tableaux, des cartes et des photographies. This volume presents a hitherto unpublished manuscript written in Arabic and Mandinka from the muslim village of Bijini in Guinea-Bissau, the Ta:rikh Mandinka, a unique and structured compilation unfolding the pagan "empire" of Kaabu from it's mythical beginnings to it's downfall in the nineteenth-century. Two existing manuscript versions and several oral interpretations of the Ta:rikh are reproduced, transcribed, translated, compared and analysed considering philological, historical and social-anthropological issues (chaps. 1-3). The fourth chapter deals with the clerical community of Bijini as a place of knowledge-transfer in it's local setting and within regional networks. The focus of the book is on the importance of the Mandinka and Jakhanka clerical diaspora in the making of the history of the Sooninkee "empire" of Kaabu in Senegambia. The volume contains a glossary of names and terms mentioned in the sources and is illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings.
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Entretiens Avec Bala Kante - Une Chronique Du Manding Du Xxeme Siecle

by Diarra Mountaga e Jan Jansen

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 This book is a bilingual (Maninkakan [ Malinke] - French) presentation of narratives by an old blacksmith, Bala Kante. The narratives are strikingly coherent in the sense that they use use indigenous models for historic causation to recount of the changes Mali has gone through in the 20th century. Though the narratives often recount well-known oral traditions, Bala Kante embeds them in an argument which is highly original. Hence, the texts are of great interests for both historical and literary research. Moreover, the book contains archival material about the Sobara region where Bala Kante lived most of his life and which marginal but unique history may be a prerequisite for Kante's unique oeuvre.
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Pen-Pictures Of Modern Africans And African Celebrities By Charles Francis Hutchison - A Collective Biography Of Elite Society In The Gold Coast Colony

by Michel R. Doortmont

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 In the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The book contains 162 biographical sketches of Ghanaians that were important in business, in society and the church, in government, and in (nationalist) politics, both from Hutchison's own time and from the nineteenth century. The text of the biographies is in blank verse, and portrait photographs accompany most sketches. Additional photographs of houses and special events, and added biographical information in the form of lists of famous deceased people complete the book.The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document. The format, the style of presentation, the intimacy of many of the life histories, the overview offered of non-European Gold Coast society in the 1920s, they all allow for multiple analyses by historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and scholars of language and literature.This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader.
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Dogon Songs Of Life And Death - A Performance Of The Baja Ni Funeral Cycle In Tireli, Mali

by Atime D. Saye, Oumarou S. Ongoiba e W.E.A. Van Beek

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 Though the Dogon are well-described, their culture still holds surprises. One of these is the cycle of songs called baja ni, which is at the heart of their funerary rites. These songs are attributed to a historic author, a blind poet/prophet who roamed the area in the nineteenth century and left a huge heritage of songs and prophecies. This book gives the full text of one performance of this legacy. The lyrics cover a range of topics, from comments on historical events to philosophical musings about life and death, and from remembering the departed to celebrating the joys of being alive.
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Rois Des Tambours Au Haayre - Recitee Par Aamadu Baa Digi, Griot Des Fulbe A Dalla (Mali)

by Anneke Breedveld, Caroline Angenent, Han Van Dijk e Mirjam De Bruijn

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 The text in this volume covers a large period. It runs from the intensification of Islamic teaching during the reign of Alu Maana, to the struggles and intrigues at the court when Seeku Aamadu reigned over the neighbouring Islamic emirate of Maasina, to the French colonial regime. During the latter episode, a lot of attention is given to the manipulation of the appointment of rulers and the subsequent decline of their power under Modibo Keita and Moussa Traore in independent Mali. This interference of the French has resulted in doubts about the legitimacy of the kings, which is symbolized by the royal drums that are no longer played upon. The political developments involving the foundation of two parties by the Malian state, further diminished the role of the leaders of the Haayre as mediators for their people. This development is embodied in the final sentence of the text when Aamadu Baa Digi desperately concludes that "Jamaa oo, haya joonin, kaanankoo'be mon 'be, laamu walaa", which was translated as "Peuple, maintenant, vos rois, ils n'ont plus de pouvoir". A team of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds (forestry, anthropology, linguistics, religious studies) has provided commentary on the social, cultural, geographic, ecological, political, linguistic and religious context of this text. An account is also given on the production and the producer of this text recited so vividly by Aamadu Baa Digi.
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Djinns, Stars And Warriors - Mandinka Legends From Pakao, Senegal

by Matthew Schaffer

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 This book contains some of the finest examples of Mandinka oral tradtions ever published, both in English and the original Mandinka, along with a chapter of Mandinka Arabic script texts translated into English. As a complement to the author's ethnography of the Mandinka published in 1980/1987, this book presents legends about jihad leaders, witchcraft, local Islam, cosmology, the founding of villages, great leaders among women, notable social institutions and other significant people and places. The Pakao country of southern Senegal developed into a West African center of pilgrimage. This book reveals the linguistic richness of Mandinka as an African literature in its own right and contributes to broader Mande studies. Since Mandinka figured prominently in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this book also lays a basis for future work by the author on a cultural legacy of Mandinka in the New World.
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Telling Our Own Stories - Local Histories From South Mara, Tanzania

by Jan Bender Shetler

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 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title 2004 In this collection of ethnic group histories, written by authors from the Mara Region of Tanzania, local people tell their stories as a way to inspire development that builds on the strengths of the past. It combines histories from the small, but closely related, ethnic groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga in South Mara, east of Lake Victoria and west of Serengeti National Park. Many of the authors compiled their stories by meeting with groups of elders. They were concerned to preserve history for the next generation who had not taken the time to learn the stories orally. The stories were written in Swahili and translated into English with annotations and an introduction so that readers not familiar with this region might also share in the experience. It also includes transcriptions of oral interviews with some of the same stories to get a sense of the ongoing conversions about the past. This collection makes local history told in a local idiom accessible to students of African history interested in social memory and the creation of ethnicity.
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Somono Bala Of The Upper Niger - River People, Charismatic Bards, And Mischieveous Music In A West African Culture

by David Conrad

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 The Somono are an ethnic group specialized in fishing on the river Niger. Somono Bala is an epic story. This is the first ever translation of this narritive from the Maninka language into English.
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Marita: Or The Folly Of Love - A Novel By A. Native

by Stephanie Newell

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 On 20th January 1886, the first installment of what is probably the first West African novel in English was published in a Ghanaian newspaper, the Western Echo, by a male author using the pseudonym 'A. Native'. Preceded by a proud editorial which welcomed the arrival of this 'work of "local effort"' by 'a native gentleman', Marita: or the Folly of Love was serialised in 40 episodes, ending two years later in January 1888. It describes the disastrous consequences for African men of uniting according to the colonial Marriage Ordinance of 1884: this ordinance enshrined the Christian, Victorian ideal of marriage as a monogamous and lifelong union, and is shown in the story to transform peaceful, well-behaved women into shrews and termagants who are bent upon seizing domestic power from their husbands. The story proved to be so popular and relevant that it survived the closure of the Western Echo in December 1887 and found a new host in the Gold Coast Echo, before disappearing from the press, unfinished, in February 1888.
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L'Histoire Des Bandjougousi D'Apres Djemory Kouyate De Nyagassola (Guinee)

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L'Histoire Des Bandjougousi D'Apres Djemory Kouyate De Nyagassola (Guinee)

by Esger Duintjer, Jan Jansen e Mountaga Diarra

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 Ce volume presente un recit oral par le griot celebre Djemory Kouyate de Nyagassola (actuelle Guinee). Il traite de la facon dont on se souvient de l'epoque qui relie la fondation de la societe mandingue par Soundiata jusqu'a aujourd'hui. Les recits oraux sur cette epoque sont rares car ils exigent du narrateur une comprehension avancee de l'histoire regionale et des relations entre les lignees dirigeantes concurrentes. Le griot celebre, Djemory Kouyate (decede en 2019), a realise ce recit a Narena (Mali actuel), offrant ainsi un apercu unique des strategies de narration et des competences diplomatiques des griots, car le recit de Djemory peut etre compare a certains de ses enregistrements anterieurs realises a Nyagassola, une ville gouvernee par une lignee rivale des Bandjougousi de Narena. L'Histoire des Bandjougousi est donc une source importante d'historiographie ouest-africaine. This volume features an oral account by the acclaimed griot Djemory Kouyate from Nyagassola (present-day Guinee). It deals with the way the era that bridges the foundation of their society by Sunjata to their present-day society, called Manding, is remembered. Oral accounts on this era are rare as they demand from the narrator an advanced understanding of regional history and the relationships between competing ruling lineages. The acclaimed griot Djemory Kouyate (d. 2019) performed this account in Narena (present-day Mali), thus offering a unique insight into griots' storytelling strategies and diplomatic skills, because Djemory's account can be compared with earlier recordings of him made in Nyagassola, a town ruled by a rival lineage to the Bandjougousi from Narena. L'Histoire des Bandjougousi is therefore an important source for West African historiography.
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'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry Of Brava (C. 1890-1975)

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'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry Of Brava (C. 1890-1975) - A Source Publication Of Chimiini Texts And English Translations

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 This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia's Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors' religious education, affiliations, in which the Qadiriyyah and Ahmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.
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Epic Of Sumanguru Kante

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 The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako's oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako's oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru's life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.
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Memoires De Maala? Galisa Sur Le Royaume Confedere Du Kaabu - Un Recit En Langue Mandinka De La Guinee-Bissau

by Cornelia Giesing e Denis Creissels

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 Edition d'un recit en mandinka par Maala? Galisa (octobre 1988) sur la constitution et les conditions de vie au Kaabu, territoire situe entre la Gambie, le Senegal et la Guinee-Bissau, connu depuis le 16e siecle et detruit vers 1867. La gamme des sujets couvre: le peuplement, le gouvernement, les codes de conduite des guerriers, religieux, esclaves et 'hotes etrangers', les regles de l'esclavage, du mariage et de la succession, la coexistence des religions, les relations entre groupes d'age et de genre.Le texte differe d'autres qui se focalisent sur un unique fondateur-patriarche, Tiramakan de l'epopee de Sunjata. Galisa parle du sud-est du Kaabu, a la frontiere avec la Guinee. Il ajoute des couleurs locales au modele mandinka, evoquant la puissance feminine et certains conflits violents.Edition of a recital in Mandinka by Maala? Galisa (October 1988) on the political constitution and living conditions in Kaabu, a territory situated between present Gambia, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, known since the 16th century, definitely destroyed in 1867. The narrative presents a range of topics covering governance, codes of conduct of warriors, clerics, slaves and 'strangers', rules of slavery, marriage and succession, the cohabitation of different religions, relations of age and gender.This text is distinctive from others focussing on a single founder-patriarch, Tiramakan of the Epic of Sunjata. Galisa focuses on South-eastern Kaabu, bordering on the region of Labe (Guinea). He adds local colours to the Mandinka model, depicting powerful women and violent conflicts resulting from injustice.
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Guidance (Uwongozi) By Sheikh Al-Amin Mazrui: Selections From The First Swahili Islamic Newspaper

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Guidance (Uwongozi) By Sheikh Al-Amin Mazrui: Selections From The First Swahili Islamic Newspaper - A Swahili-English Edition

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 Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui wrote his essays of this Guidance (Uwongozi) collection in Mombasa between 1930 and 1932, providing social critique and moral guidance to Kenya's coastal Muslims during a period of their decline during British colonial rule. The essays were initially published as a series of double-sided pamphlets called Sahifa (The Page), the first Swahili Islamic newspaper. Inspired by contemporary debates of Pan-Islam and Islamic modernism, and with a critical eye on British colonialism, this leading East African modernist takes issue with his peers, in a sharply critical and yet often humorous tone. Al-Amin Mazrui was the first to publish Islamic educational prose and social commentary in Swahili. This bi-lingual edition makes fascinating reading for specialists and general readers.
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Print Culture And The First Yoruba Novel - I.B. Thomas'S 'Life Story Of Me, Segilola' And Other Texts

by Karin Barber

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 First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risque escapades, pious moralising and vivid evocations of urban popular culture. The narrative and the commentary that sprang up around it in the Yoruba press offer a unique view of life in colonial Lagos. Today it is recognised as I.B.Thomas's work and hailed as the first Yoruba novel in a major African literary tradition. This volume presents the edited Yoruba text with translation, selected newspaper correspondence, and an introductory essay showing how the text emerged from the Yoruba print culture of the time.Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel has won the Paul Hair Prize 2013!
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Sukuma Labor Songs From Western Tanzania - 'We Never Sleep, We Dream Of Farming'

by Frank Gunderson

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 This volume is an interpretive analysis of a collection of 335 song texts treated as primary historical sources. The collection highlights the cultural practices that link music with labor in Sukuma communities in northwestern Tanzania. These linkages are evident in the music of the elephant, snake, and porcupine hunting associations that flourished in the precolonial epoch, in the nineteenth-century regional and long-distance porter associations, and in the farmer associations that have proliferated since the beginning of the twentieth century. Acting primarily as an interpretive editor, the author collaborated with several Tanzanian scholars and translators towards fine-tuning the translation of these texts into English, and gathered testimonies in order to create succinct interpretive statements about the songs. The African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce that the 2012 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize has been awarded to Frank Gunderson for his book, Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania: "We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming, published by Brill in 2010. Grounded in nearly twenty years of ethnographic research, we congratulate Professor Gunderson for this excellent publication in African music studies

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