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Title: | Oral Tradition and Sierra Leone History |
Author: | Fyle, C. Magbaily |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 12 |
Pages: | 65-72 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | oral traditions historiography Education and Oral Traditions Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171712 |
Abstract: | This paper attempts to examine specific problems encountered with the collection and interpretation of oral traditions in Sierra Leone and ways in which these were approached. The author suggests with examples that problems facing oral traditions are not always peculiar to them, as the researcher with written sources faces some similar problems. The author examines some of the problems creating distortion of oral tradition in a number of areas in Sierra Leone. - Notes. |