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Local Preservation, National Demolition, International Publication: the Ta'rikh Mandinka from Bijini ca. 1800(?)–2007

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2014

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah  and
Jan Jansen
Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah
Affiliation:
Brill Publishers
Jan Jansen
Affiliation:
Leiden University
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The Ta:rikh Mandinka from Bijini has been published in a classical format (as a monograph in Brill's African Sources for African History Series), but the publishing process of this book was rather extraordinary. This note on the publication serves as an instructive (and encouraging) account for all who work on the documentation and publication of African historical sources. Our “Bijini Experience” illustrates how literate and script-loving persons (academics and publishers alike) can tackle a source in which the oral and the written have always been blurred.

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History in Africa , Volume 36 , 2009 , pp. 447 - 452
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2009

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