The Historian in Tropical Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6029367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilary Blood (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 253 |
| Pages | 299-301 |
| Publication date | 1964-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Historian in Tropical Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fourth International African Seminar at the University of Dakar Senegal 1961, Jan Vansina, 2018 |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095252 |
| OpenAlex | W2586385187 |
| Language | EN |
Geography · Political science · African history and culture studies · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade
The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa
The manipulation of tradition
Further Spectrographic Analyses of Nigerian Bronzes
Medieval Copper Alloy Production and West African Bronze Analyses ‐ Part Ii
State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800
The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan
“Their Power Will Be Uniformly Supported”—Power and Memory
The Dawn of Igbo History
Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa
The western Maghrib and Sudan
The Guinea coast
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi
Eastern Africa
Upper and Lower Guinea
The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean
Africa in Europe and the Americas
The central Sahara and Sudan
The East African interior
Ethnohistory
The impact of precolonial political centralisation on local development
Four Millennia of Cultural History in Nigeria (ca. 2000 B.C.–A.D. 1900)
On Modernization of the African Economy
The Cambridge History of Africa
Oral Traditions and Anthropological Analysis
Conversion to Islam and the Promotion of 'Modern' Islamic Schools in Ghana
Oral traditions
Oral tradition in the pacific
Ethnohistory and Political Change
Kingship and Slavery in African Thought
The Significance of Traditional Yoruba Urbanism
The divine kingship of the Shilluk
Innovation, diffusion, and culture contact
Early Rwanda History
The Empire of Bunyoro Kitara
Notions and treatment of guinea worm in Northern Ghana
Muslims and the pre‐colonial history of Zimbabwe
A comparison of Muslims as minorities in the Volta region, Ghana, the Cote D'lvoire and among the Yoruba of Nigeria in West Africa
The Hammers of Mawu
Garu Kime
Gold coasters overseas, 1880–1919
Archivists and scholars in central and Eastern Africa
Women and slavery in nineteenth‐century Hausaland
Circular Arguments and Self-Fulfilling Definitions
Making History in Banda
Archaeology and mud wall decay in a West African village
Recent work in West Africa
The Kisra legend and the distortion of historical tradition
The mid-fourteenth century capital of Mali
States, traders, and colonists
Oral Traditions
Advent of the Second ( Oba ) Dynasty
A Traditional History of the Konyan (15th-16th Century)
In Quest of Susu
Contradictions at the Heart of the Canon
Reflections on the Oral Traditions of the Nterapo of the Salaga Area
Between the Ogiso and Oba Dynasties
Historical Tales ( Ibiteekerezo ) and the History of Rwanda
The Presence of Islam Among the Akan of Ghana
On the Methodology of Chronology
Early Oyo History Reconsidered
Reflections on the Genesis of Anglophone African History After World War II
Impeachable Source? On the Use of the Second Edition of Reindorf's History as a Primary Source for the Study of Ghanaian History - I
Value-Orientation in Historical Research and Writing
George Peter Murdock's Contributions To African Studies
Three perspectives on hierarchy
Medicine and Kingship
Recording the Oral History of Africa
Anthropological Models in Yoruba History
On the rationality of conversion (Part II)
Transvaal heirloom beads and Rhodesian archaeological sites
Two Studies of Ifa Divination
Dan and Mende masks
On a new radiocarbon chronology for Africa south of the Equator
Historical Inferences from the Linguistic Geography of the Nigerian Middle Belt
Aspects of the Ashanti Northern Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Kilwa Kisiwani
Down to gentility
Route Work’ through Alternative Archives
Mpongwe Origins
Material Culture and Indigenous Spiritism
Towards an Early History of the East African Interior
Examining Text Sediments–Commending a Pioneer Historian as an “African Herodotus”
Mamprusi Installation Ritual and Centralisation
The Residue of Colonial Anthropology in the History and Political Discourse of Northern Ghana
Some uses of photographs in recovering cultural history at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria
The Chronology of the Kings and Queenmothers of Bono-Manso
A Reconsideration of Hausa History before the Jihad
Shilluk Trade and Politics from the mid–seventeenth century to 1861
New Radiocarbon Dates for Northern and Western Africa
Akorite
Who were the Vai
Problems of African Chronology
Dynasties of the Mutapa-Rozwi Complex
The Political Organization of Traditional Gold Mining
The Relevance of Spatial Analysis for African Economic History
Historical Notes on the Embu of Central Kenya
Prehistory in the upper Nile Basin
Slaves from the Windward Coast
Aspects of Bureaucratization in Ashanti in the Nineteenth Century
| Highly cited | No |
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