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Krio women of Sierra Leone : embracing a culture of many parts / Filomina Chioma Steady.
Penn Museum Library DT516.45.C73 S7385 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steady, Filomina Chioma, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Creole (Sierra Leone)--Social life and customs.
- Women, Creole (Sierra Leone).
- Ethnology.
- Women.
- Manners and customs.
- Freetown (Sierra Leone)--Social life and customs.
- Freetown (Sierra Leone).
- Women--Sierra Leone--Freetown--Social life and customs.
- Ethnology--Sierra Leone--Freetown.
- Women--Social life and customs.
- Sierra Leone--Freetown.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ronkonkoma, NY : Linus Learning, [2017]
- Contents:
- Freetown Krio society
- Women, education and employment
- Women's associations
- A Krio model
- A flexible and diverse kinship and family system
- Life cycle events
- from childhood to adolescence
- the marriage process
- death, funerals and after-death rituals
- The cultural significance of Saturday and Sunday
- Concluding remarks
- embracing a culture of many parts
- Selected Krio proverbs and sayings
- a bonus
- Selected life histories
- a bonus.
- Mrs. Lati Hyde-Forster : first female university graduate. Former principale of the Annie Walsh Memorial School
- Mrs. Miriam Harper : domestic science teacher and organization woman
- Olayinka Burney-Nicol : first woman artist
- Dr. Christiana Thorpe : chairperson and chief electoral commissioner, National Electoral Commission. Former Minister of Education.
- Mrs. Cassandra Garber : former principal, Freetown Secondary School for Girls and president of the Krio Descendants Union
- Ambassador Haja Mrs Alari Cole : retired educationist and diplomat
- Mrs. Yvonne Gibril : former deputy governor, Bank of Sierra Leone; director, Sababu Project
- Ministry of Education
- Dr. Euphemia C. Gooding, MBBS, MSc : fellow of the West African College of Physicians, faculty trainer in family medicine.
- Notes:
- Contains bibliographical references (pages 157-159) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781607976424
- 1607976420
- OCLC:
- 1090814703
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