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Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition

Praise forBalancing Written History with Oral Tradition: The Legacy of the Songhoy People:

The reinterpretation, by native Africans, of the history of their continent and its myriad societies, in their extreme complexity, is a necessary and inescapable evolution of contemporary African Studies. Therefore, Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition: The Legacy of the Songhoy People, by Malian Professor Hassimi O. Maga, is a work that deserves the widest and earliest possible diffusion. Dense and original, touching and uncompromising, it required a great deal of research and reflection. It is not easy to undermine in one single book, as Maga has done, as many simplistic interpretations, when not outright lies, as are current regarding the history of African societies, and in particular that of the Islamicized Songhoy people. This work no doubt has a place in academia as well as in the lay world.

Carlos Moore, Ph.D.

Ethnologist

Author of Pchon: A memoirRace and revolution in Castros Cuba (Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, 2008), Castro, the Blacks and Africa (CCAA/ UCLA/1989) and Co-Author of African Presence in the Americas (African World Press, New Jersey, 1995/USA).

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• Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition
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• Hassimi Oumarou Maga

Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition

The Legacy of the Songhoy People

Hassimi Oumarou Maga

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maga, Hassimi Oumarou.
Balancing written history with oral tradition : the legacy of the Songhoy people / by Hassimi Oumarou Maga.1st ed.
p. cm.(African studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Songhai (African people)History. 2. Songhai EmpireHistory. 3. Africa, WestCivilization. I. Title.
DT532.27.M35 2009
305.896'5dc22
2009007991

ISBN 0-203-87205-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-96351-6 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-87205-3 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-96351-0 (hbk)

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