African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART 1. GIVING AFRICA A HISTORY -- 1. The Construction of Luo Identity and History -- BethwellA. Ogot / 31 -- 2. Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony -- Megan Vaughan / 53 -- 3. John Bunyan, His Chair, and a Few Other Relics: Orality, Literacy, and -- the Limits of Area Studies Isabel Hofmeyr / 78 -- 4. The Dialogue between Academic and Community History -- in Nigeria E. J. Alagoa / 91 -- 5. The Birth of the Interview: The Thin and the Fat of It -- Abdullahi A. Ibrahim / 103 -- PART 2. AFRICAN LIVES -- 6. Conversations and Lives Corinne A. Kratz / 127 -- 7. The Life Histories of Boakye Yiadom (Akasease Kofi of Abetifi, -- Kwawu): Exploring the Subjectivity and "Voices" of a Teacher- -- Catechist in Colonial Ghana Stephan F. Miescher / 162 -- 8. Lives, Histories, and Sites of Recollection -- Tamara Giles-Vernick / 194 -- 9. Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, -- Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945-1996 -- Babacar Fall / 214 -- PART 3. AFRICAN IMAGINATIONS -- 10. Nana Ampadu, the Sung-Tale Metaphor, and Protest Discourse in -- Contemporary Ghana Kwesi Yankah / 227 -- 11. Voice, Authority, and Memory: The Kiswahili Recordings of -- Siti binti Saadi Laura Fair / 246 -- 12. In a Nation of White Cars One White Car, or "A White Car," -- Becomes a Truth David William Cohen / 264 -- 13. True Stories: Narrative, Event, History, and Blood in the -- Lake Victoria Basin Luise White / 281 -- Participants in the "Words and Voices" Conference at Bellagio / -- Participants in the "Words and Voices" Follow-up Conference -- at Ann Arbor / 306 -- Contributors / 307 -- Index / 311.