New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dixon-Fyle, Mac, 1948-, Cole, Gibril Raschid, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
Series:American university studies. History. v. 204.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.