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Title: | Writing and formal operations: a case study among the Vai |
Authors: | Goody, Jack Cole, Michael Scribner, Sylvia |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 289-304 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sierra Leone Liberia |
Subjects: | Mahdis Muslim brotherhoods Tijaniyya |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158864 |
Abstract: | In the mid 1930s, a Tijaniyya (Islamic brotherhood) marabout known as Al-Hajj Mohammed Ahmad Tunis was preaching in Fairo (Sierra Leone) and exercising considerable influence on the surrounding population, including some of the Vai in neighbouring Liberia. He crossed the broders into Liberia where one of his students was Braimah Nuei (b. 1899, now Al-Hajj), who in turn influenced two members of a business partnership, Braimah Kemokai (now Al-Hajj) and Ansumana Sonie (d. 1959). After the death of Al-Haj Tunis, Nyei became muqaddam of the Tijaniyya in Liberia. He founded the Malodi association of Misila, of which he became the Imam, and Sonie the 'president'. Important aspect of the association was the series of records kept by Sonie, convering the period 1926 to 1959. The writings of Ansuma Sonie provide evidence concerning the organization and functions of Muslim brotherhoods in West Africa, and the spread of the Malodi associations from Mende into the neighbouring Vai, including a statement of the rules, or constitution of one such association (Misila). Ref., notes, appendices, French summary. |