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Title:Time and Oral Traditions with Special Reference to Eastern Nigeria
Author:Jones, G.I.
Year:1965
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:6
Issue:2
Pages:153-160
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:oral traditions
Education and Oral Traditions
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/180193
Abstract:African Oral traditions differ critically from recorded history in their treatment of time. Time is relative and 'Historical time' is replaced by 'structural time'. Eastern Nigerian traditions have a beginning, the 'remote past', and an end, 'the recent past' and episodes which should belong to a middle period between these extremes are pushed either into the' remote' or the 'recent past' or are forgotten altogether. This can be seen as soon as Eastern Delta traditions are compared with the relevant European historical records. References; unpublished documents; map; genealogy.
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