ID questions and short essay questions
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development_of_african_historiography.pptDevelopment of African Historiography
Introduction: Idea of History
- Knowledge of past & present,
- Consciousness to preserve story, griots
- Understand beginnings of communities, legends, folktales, folk beliefs, proverbs, praise songs, myths, religious practices, etc
- Definite purpose, survival of community’s traditions, socializing, values, codes, control, knowledge of institutions
- Early Historical Writers:
- A) Arabs: Al-Bakri (1029-94); Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406); Ibn Battuta (1301- 49)
- European Writing from the 15th Century:
- A) Early themes: slavery, etc;
- B) Colonial Era: colonial history, themes
- Mission trained Africans:
- Carl Christian Reindorf, A History of the Gold Coast & Asante, (1890)
- Samuel Johnson, History of the Yorubas (1897)
- Pre-1939, national themes
- Impact of world war II
- Post world War II Era
- Emergence of African nationalism, Cold War, etc.
- Changes in Europe: Britain, school of Oriental and African Studies in London.
- US, Northwestern University, Boston University, etc, etc
- Jan Vansina, Basil Davidson, Philip Curtain, etc.
- 1960, Year of Africa, nationalist movements & impact on historiography
- African scholars: K.O. Dike & J.F. Ade Ajayi at Ibadan University
- Adu Boahen in Ghana
- B.O. Ogot at Makerere University (Uganda)
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo at Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
- General Histories:
- UNESCO General History of Africa
- Cambridge History of Africa
- Etc, etc.
- See selected bibliography
