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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The History of the Baga in Early Written Sources |
Author: | Hair, Paul E.H. |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 24 |
Pages: | 381-391 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Guinea |
Subjects: | Baga history ethnic groups History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172037 |
Abstract: | The extent of secure knowledge concerning the past of the groups of people known in scholarly literature as Baga is inconsiderable. This is in part because of the limited European interest in past times in the Baga homeland (on the coast of the postcolonial State of Guinea), and also in part because of limited scholarly investigations in recent times. An analysis of early written sources suggests that the present-day Baga coastal dispositions have been occupied for at least five centuries. Hence, the hypothesis of Baga 'origins' in the interior (e.g. the Futa Jalon region), a popular myth throughout the region, can only be speculative. Notes, ref. |