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New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio / Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole, editors.
Penn Museum Library DT516.45.C73 N49 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American university studies. History 0740-0462 ; Series IX, v. 204.
- American university studies. Series IX, History, 0740-0462 ; v. 204
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creoles (Sierra Leone).
- Creoles (Sierra Leone)--Sierra Leone--Freetown.
- Krio language.
- Freetown (Sierra Leone)--History.
- Freetown (Sierra Leone).
- Sierra Leone--Freetown.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 347 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
- Contents:
- Akintola Wyse : creator of the Krio myth / Christopher Fyfe
- Re-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 C. Johnson
- Women's associations and female education in Sierra Leone / Filomena C. Steady
- After partition / John D. Hargreaves
- A bibliography of the Freetown/Krio experience / Joyce Dixon-Fyle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820479373
- OCLC:
- 59712434
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