The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The Atlantic slave trade and its legacy represents one of the strongest currents that shaped and continues to influence identities in the Americas. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. When the beginning historian finds This essay reconstructs the history of youth subcultures in Accra in the early independence era by examining how unique group identities emerged and how they were closely integrated with the creation, adoption, and adaptation—from both within and outside of the continent—of popular culture forms such askpanlogo, highlife, and rock ’n’ roll music. Although technically voiceless, Paleolithic chips and stone canvases convey information—which is not news to archaeologists. Archaeology is the study of material remains of peoples themselves, dwellings … A month after that, three men, Oruoloye, Abuduranomi, and Amore, sued Jinadu Somade to recover possession of the land at issue in the first case.¹. summary summary the role of written and unwritten sources in the reconstruction of african history. The Afrikaans dialect took on a different flavour with the arrival of slaves in the Cape. Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research.BR> Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. This is because books or documents can often be carried from one place to another where the reader or the writer wants to use it. burden on historians of Africa, who already find themselves in need of help from many other disciplines, burdened with written sources in two or three European languages, plus Arabic for most of Africa north of the forest, with at least one African language now required of most Ph.D. candidates in African history. What are Arabic sources? Its intention is to humanize and personalize the historical actors and to point out both the control they had over the information they gathered and its interpretation and availability. ‘Chach-Nama’: Chach-Nama was originally written in Arabic. Arab knowledge of Africa dates from the earliest days of Islam; indeed, the Arabs of the Ḥijāz and the Yemen evidently had some knowledge, at least of “Ethiopia” (al-Ḥabasha, however that may be defined), before the rise of Islam. book There is not much, and everything is in English. In Central Africa, Kuba historians have maintained royal chronologies that include references to the solar eclipse of 1680 and the 1835 sighting of Halley’s comet. The Ben and Maggie of the title refers to Benjamin Platt, the medical researcher who was director of the 1939 Nyasaland Nutrition Survey and who collected all the data from the various scientists on the team, and to Margaret Read, the anthropologist for the survey. The essays by Matt Childs on Cuba, Russell Lohse on Costa Rica, and Kevin Roberts on Louisiana explore the methodological issues that arise from a consideration of ethnicity in the historical context of the circum Caribbean. Works that treat the history of urban electricity are rare. Before the nineteenth century, the Nupe... Tanzania’s Southern Highlands are rich in sites of commemoration. The Afro centric movement was created during the 1960: s, one of their goals was to rewrite the African history with a focus on Africans, rather than the Europeans history on the African continent. Europeans have been interested in African geography since the time of the Greek and Roman Empires. Our principal sources of the Sultanate period are primarily in Persian and Arabic. The social scientists... JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Other early work in Afrikaans included the use of the Arabic alphabet, for example in the work Bayaan-ud-djyn written by Abu Bakr in the mid 1800s. Themes in African History A. Southall, Alur Society 9/29 States in the Interlacustrine Region What are some of the lessollS of the Luo migration for state formation among the 'Great States' of the Lake region?