May 02, 2008
XVII
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Ways of Recording African History
Societies throughout sub-Saharan Africa have preserved knowledge about the past through verbal, visual, and written art forms. Often, the responsibility of recording historical information was consigned to professional historians, trusted individuals whose superior wisdom and training equipped them to remember and interpret vast stores of information for the benefit of the community. In centralized states and chiefdoms, historians were often religious or political advisors who regulated royal power, supporting or checking it as necessary. ....(Read More)
Publications of interest for your Consideration:
Some new,some old, all Relevant !!
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Hardcover)
by Linda M. Heywood (Author), John K. Thornton (Author
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Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968 (Religion & American Culture) (Hardcover)
by Edward J. Robinson (Author)
A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl) (Hardcover)
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Author)
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Hardcover)
by Sylviane A. Diouf (Author)
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings (Hardcover)
by Angela L. Cotten (Editor), Christa Davis Acampora (Editor)
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Hardcover)
by Sylviane A. Diouf (Author)
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings (Hardcover)
by Angela L. Cotten (Editor), Christa Davis Acampora (Editor)
Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Hardcover)
by Karen Sotiropoulos (Author)
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Music of the African Diaspora) (Paperback)
by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. (Author)
Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, And New Beginnings in a New South (Paperback)
by Mark Kemp (Author)
The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (Hardcover)
by Shane White (Author), Graham White (Author)
No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey from Slavery to Emancipation Through Song (Includes CD) (Hardcover)
by Velma Maia Thomas (Author)
Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 (Hardcover)
by KATE DOSSETT (Author)
Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear (Paperback)
by Bruce A Jacobs (Author)
The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set (Hardcover)
by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor)
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