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| Title: | 'Progress and a sense of identity': African historiography in East Africa |
| Author: | Rowe, John A. |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Periodical: | Kenya Historical Review |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 23-34 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | East Africa |
| Subject: | historiography |
| Abstract: | This article gives a survey of indigenous historians in the period of the arrival of literacy in east Africa and sheds light on the motives of these pioneer historians (they wished their people to achieve 'progress' without loss of historic indentity). It discovers that many valuable accounts have been neglected and lost. Notes. |