Descript |
xxiv, 347 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Akintola Wyse : creator of the Krio myth / Christopher Fyfe -- E-thinking the demographic make-up of Krio society / Gibril Cole -- The Sierra Leone Carrier Corps and Krio responses to recruitment in World War I / Festus Cole -- We have the cause of Africa at heart : West Indians and African-Americans in 19th century Freetown / Nemata Blyden -- Rescuing the footnoted : immigrant Krio travails on the Niger, 1865-1926 / Mac Dixon-Fyle -- Nuggets of Krio wisdom : structure, figurative language, and the construction of meaning in the Krio proverb / Sheikeh Kamarah -- The Krio language : diglossic and political realities / Abdul Bangura -- Aborigines and returnees : in search of linguistic and historical meaning in delineations of Sierra Leone's ethnicity and heritage / Joko Sengova -- Re-lighting Sierra Leonean history : a comparative study of the re-interpretation of aspects of Sierra Leonean history by Syl Cheney-Coker and Yema Lucilda Hunter / Eustace Palmer -- Creolization and Kriodom : (re) visioning the Sierra Leone experiment / Tom Spencer-Walters -- Road to freedom : history and the creative imagination / Alex Johnson -- Women's associations and female education in Sierra Leone / Filomena Steady -- After partition / John Hargreaves -- A bibliography of the Freetown/Krio experience / Joyce Dixon-Fyle. |
ISBN |
0820479373 |
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9780820479378 |
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