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Author : Marion Kilson
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Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Spider and Royal Antelope in Sierra Leone written by Marion Kilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion Kilson
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Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Royal Antelope and Spider written by Marion Kilson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion Kilson
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Royal Antelope and Spider written by Marion Kilson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magbaily C. Fyle
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810865041
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone written by Magbaily C. Fyle and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone was founded, albeit under British control, with the highest hopes of being a refuge for liberated Africans and freed slaves. When the country received its independence, hopes for the future grew even stronger. Alas, its expectations came crashing down when the country's situation grew steadily worse after repeated military interventions and a devastating ten-year civil war that raged throughout the 1990s. Now that the war is over, there is once again renewed cause for optimism about the country's future, as Sierra Leone becomes an active participant in African and world affairs. This new edition is based primarily on recent research on the country, but covers the earliest known inhabitants, the colonial era, and the period of independence including the very confusing turmoil of the recent past. The chronology briefly traces its history and the introduction provides an essential overview of all the recent developments in the country. Hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries describe significant leaders, events, political parties and movements, ethnic groups, and related political, economic, and social aspects. A bibliography is included to facilitate further research.
Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135034699
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65 written by Kenneth Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, these titles explore the tension between agriculture and industry in developing economies, and trace the complex political process of independence. Aimed at administrators and academics, these studies are central to Development Studies, and also present the work of renowned anthropologists such as Raymond Firth.
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sierra Leone Language Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948720
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Donald Cosentino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521241977
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers written by Donald Cosentino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-06-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he collected them in dramatic performance on the verandahs and around the cooking fires of a Mende village. The domei is told to please, and Dr Cosentino details the various elements that constitute the pleasure of an oral performance. But beneath the surface glitter of these ironic, horrifying, bawdy and haunting narrative performances, there is an intellectual hardness of argument and debate which shines through the domeisia included here. Dominating these performances, and emblematic of the entire artistic tradition, are the 'everywoman' figure of the Defiant Maid, Yombo, and the 'everyman' Stubborn Farmer, Kpana.
Author : Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300048612
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Radiance from the Waters written by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.
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Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anthropos written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781685525
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book The Amistad Rebellion written by Marcus Rediker and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of a courageous rebellion against slavery On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Africans that comprised that cargo escaped from the hold, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the US navy and thrown into a Connecticut jail. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where former president John Quincy Adams took up their cause. In a landmark ruling, they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated as a triumph of the US legal system in books and films, most famously Steven Spielberg’s Amistad. These narratives reflect the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its instigators: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence, Rediker reaches back to Africa to find the rebels’ roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a prison story of great drama and emotive power. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, The Amistad Rebellion shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement that was part of a grand global struggle for emancipation. The actions of that distant July night and inthe days and months that followed were pivotal events in American and Atlantic history, but not for the reasons we have always thought. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of Africans steered a course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honours their achievement.
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521256461
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Literatures in African Languages written by B. W. Andrzejewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-21 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
Author : Margaret Binns
Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sierra Leone written by Margaret Binns and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zaccheus Sunday Ali
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Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book African Unity written by Zaccheus Sunday Ali and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Abstracts in Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Jekyll
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Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Jamaican Song and Story written by Walter Jekyll and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
