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Jan M. J. Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) [1] was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa, especially of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.
Oral repositories are people who have been trusted with mentally recording information constituting oral tradition within a society. They serve an important role in oral cultures and illiterate societies as repositories of their culture's traditional knowledge , values, and morals.
Jan Vansina, who specialised in the history of Central Africa, pioneered the study of oral tradition in his book Oral tradition as history (1985). Vansina differentiates between oral and literate civilisations, depending on whether emphasis is placed on the sanctity of the written or oral word in a society. The Akan proverbs translated as ...
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Jan Vansina suggests from the oral traditions that he was the victim of a coup by Cyilima II ...
The Bugesera kingdom was possibly founded in the 16th century. [2] Its rulers were known as mwami (kings), [6] similarly to the monarchs of other regional states. [7] [8] Accounts of the regional royal lineages have led some historians such as Jan Vansina to the conclusion that Bugesera originally dominated Rwanda, with the latter being a mere dependency ruled by a branch of the Bugeseran ...
Oral tradition and its methodology Jan Vansina 8 The living tradition Amadou Hampâté Bâ 9 African archeology and its techniques including dating techniques Zaky Iskander 10 History and linguistics Pathé Diagne – Editorial Note: Theories on the 'races' and history of Africa Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso) 11
Hochschild cites several recent independent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others, that examine local sources (police records, religious records, oral traditions, genealogies, personal diaries), which generally agree with the assessment of the 1919 Belgian government commission: roughly half the population perished ...
According to Asante oral tradition, the Golden Stool first appeared near the end of the 17th century. It became the spiritual centre of the Empire after King Osei Tutu unified the Asante city-states into one empire. According to oral tradition, Okomfo Anokye, the chief priest and adviser of Osei Tutu, brought down the stool from the sky to the ...