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African Oral History


African Oral History

A unique historical record that offers new perspectives on African history while helping individual informants better preserve their own life stories.

African Oral History Archive: AOHA

A historic multi-media experience – Now a permanent exhibition at Conhill. Read More Watch a selection of over 172 interviews.

African 905: Oral History and Traditions

This course focuses on the study of oral history in Africa—spoken recollections about the past that scholars record when interviewing individuals—and oral ...

Oral traditions and the written word - African literature - Britannica

African literature - Oral Traditions, Writing: Oral and written storytelling traditions have had a parallel development, and in many ways ...

African Oral Histories - Historical Society of Pennsylvania

During 2000-2001, the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies collected the personal histories of African immigrants living in the Philadelphia area.

West Africa's oral history griots tell a more complete story - Quartz

Griots of western Africa from Senegal and Mauritania across to Mali and Nigeria use oral traditions which date back over 2,000 years. They often ...

African Historians and Oral History - jstor

For if we accept Grele's assertion that "the final product of oral history is not a monograph or historical narrative based on interviews as sources" (p. 135), ...

african oral tradition, history, & literature at columbia

Oral Tradition—Sources · Conrad, David C. Epic ancestors of the Sunjata era : oral tradition from the Maninka of Guinea ; [illus. · Kouyaté, Ahmadou, Denise ...

African Oral History - YouTube

African Oral History ... AFRICAN ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE charts the untold stories of Africa's vivid history, magnificent heritage and collective ...

Written & Oral Traditions in Africa (500-1800 CE) - Lesson | Study.com

Explore examples of these traditions between 500 and 1800 CE, including folktales, proverbs, griots, and the written tradition of travelogues such as the ...

Online Collections of African Oral Histories - Research Guides

Online Collections ... The oral history collections archived within SAHA include interviews collected by a range of historians, writers and ...

This Man Embodies A Thousand Years Of West African Oral History

Watch (or read) Audible high school intern N'Kaela Webster's interview with world-famous griot Alhaji Papa Susso, and see him perform one of his songs.

Capturing Your Family's Oral History

Thanks to the artists and writers employed through this program, readers today can relive the experiences of the last surviving individuals enslaved prior to ...

African Words, African Voices - Indiana University Press

In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources are seen as a way to restore African expression to African ...

Oral History, Democracy, and the Power of Memory by Paul Ortiz

The Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History has built upon traditions of African American Studies that emphasize community-based research, ...

The significance of African oral tradition in the making of African ...

African oral tradition is a relevant socio-cultural element in the constitution of African Christianity and its influence cannot be ignored.

Oral Histories and Primary Sources - Global Diasporas ...

Oral history is the systematic collection of people's testimony about their own experiences. Oral historians attempt to verify their findings, ...

Turner | African-American History and the Oral Tradition

the oral tradition that Africans brought to America in slave ships during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries as they endured what poet Robert ...

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

This book offers a complete, deep, and innovative analysis of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and among Africans in the diaspora and creates a ...

Storytelling and Oral Traditions in West Africa - ENG - YouTube

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