New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio / Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole, editors.
| Uniform Title: | American university studies. History ;
Series IX, v. 204. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2006], ©2006.
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| Series: | American university studies. History ;
v. 204. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 347 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Akintola Wyse : creator of the Krio myth / Christopher Fyle
- Re-thinking the demographic make-up of Krio society / Gibril R. 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 / Sheikh U. Kamarah
- The Krio language : diglossic and political realities / Abdul K. 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 C. Johnson
- Women's associations and female education in Sierra Leone / Filomina C. Steady
- After partition / John D. Hargreaves
- A bibliography of the Freetown/Krio experience / Joyce Dixon-Fyle.