The Epic Of Askia Mohammed

Author : Thomas Albert Hale,Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253209900

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The Epic of Askia Mohammed by Thomas Albert Hale,Thomas A. Hale Pdf

Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a political force beginning in 1463, under the leadership of Sonni Ali Ber. By the time of his death in 1492, the foundation had been laid for the development under Askia Mohammed of a complex system of administration, a well-equipped army and navy, and a network of large government-owned farms. The present rendition of the epic was narrated by the griot (or jeseré) Nouhou Malio over two evenings in Saga, a small town on the Niger River, two miles downstream from Niamey. The text is a word-for-word translation from Nouhou Malio's oral performance.

Author : Mohammed I (Askia of Songhai.),Nouhou Malio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59778157

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The Epic of Askia Mohammed by Mohammed I (Askia of Songhai.),Nouhou Malio Pdf

Author : John William Johnson,Thomas Albert Hale,Thomas A. Hale,Stephen Paterson Belcher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211107

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Oral Epics from Africa by John William Johnson,Thomas Albert Hale,Thomas A. Hale,Stephen Paterson Belcher Pdf

It seems incredible that heretofore there has not been an introductory anthology of African epics presented in English. Western literary culture has long emphasized the heritage of such well-known epics as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Aeneid. But it is only recently that scholars have turned their attention toward capturing the rich oral tradition that is still alive in Africa. The twenty-five excerpts in this volume have been selected and introduced so as to offer English-speaking readers a broad sample of the extensive epic traditions in Africa. The general introduction and the background on each epic will enable readers to understand the context of each epic and will also provide leads for further inquiry.

Author : David Bellama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Folk-lore, Islamic
ISBN : WISC:89015375751

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Si Ali and Askia Mohammed by David Bellama Pdf

Author : Askia M. Touré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015049744488

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Dawnsong! by Askia M. Touré Pdf

Poetry using the landscape of Egypt, ancient gods and goddess, historical events, heroes and queens.

Author : Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0813009812

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Scribe, Griot, and Novelist by Thomas A. Hale Pdf

Author : Christopher Wise
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0894108670

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The Desert Shore by Christopher Wise Pdf

Author : Mariam Konaté Deme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136932649

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Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic by Mariam Konaté Deme Pdf

There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals. In both cases, Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons in examining the social, cultural and emotional specificity of African epics. Mariam Konate Deme highlights the distinguishing features that characterize the African epic, emphasizing the significance of the fantastic and its use as an essential element in the dramatic structure of African epics. As Deme notes, the fantastic can be fully appreciated only against the cosmological background of the societies that produce those heroic tales. This book not only contributes to the scholarship on African oral literature, but also adds reshapes our understanding of heroic literature in general.

Author : Jo Ann Cavallo
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603296199

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Teaching World Epics by Jo Ann Cavallo Pdf

Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history, chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel, epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations. Useful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics, national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war. This volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Giulia Bigolina's Urania, The Book of Dede Korkut, Luís Vaz de Camões's Os Lusíadas, David of Sassoun, The Epic of Askia Mohammed, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the epic of Sun-Jata, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's La Araucana, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Kalevala, Kebra Nagast, Kudrun, The Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu, the Mahabharata, Manas, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mwindo, the Nibelungenlied, Poema de mio Cid, Popol Wuj, the Ramayana, the Shahnameh, Sirat Bani Hilal, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Statius's Thebaid, The Tale of the Heike, Three Kingdoms, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Author : Thomas Albert Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046488147

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Griots and Griottes by Thomas Albert Hale Pdf

A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.

Author : Christopher Wise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350013124

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Sorcery, Totem, and Jihad in African Philosophy by Christopher Wise Pdf

In this significant new work in African Philosophy, Christopher Wise explores deconstruction's historical indebtedness to Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa today. He does so by comparing deconstructive and African thought on the spoken utterance, nothingness, conjuration, the oath or vow, occult sorcery, blood election, violence, circumcision, totemic inscription practices, animal metamorphosis and sacrifice, the Abrahamic, fratricide, and jihad. Situated against the backdrop of the Ansar Dine's recent jihad in Northern Mali, Sorcery, Totem and Jihad in African Philosophy examines the root causes of the conflict and offers insight into the Sahel's ancient, complex, and vibrant civilization. This book also demonstrates the relevance of deconstructive thought in the African setting, especially the writing of the Franco-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Author : Maḥmūd Kutī ibn Mutawakkil Kutī Timbuktī
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gao (Mali : Region)
ISBN : 1592218091

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Timbuktu Chronicles by Maḥmūd Kutī ibn Mutawakkil Kutī Timbuktī Pdf

Some 500 years ago, Askiya Muhammad founded the Songhay Dynasty of the Askiyas, which flourished for more than a century in Sahelian West Africa. The Timbuktu-based scribe al hajj Mahmud Kati was a close friend of Askiya Mohammed - and the Tarikh al fattash gives an eyewitness account of his empire, told from the perspective of a key participant. Long valued as one of the most important historical documents of the African medieval world, Kati's account is also a literary achievement that is comparable to the writings of figures like Chaucer, Rabelais and Montaigne.

Author : Nicola Frith,Kate Hodgson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387580

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At the Limits of Memory by Nicola Frith,Kate Hodgson Pdf

Internationally renowned academics look at memories of slavery in the Francophone world, reflecting upon contemporary commemorative practices that relate to the history of slavery and the slave trade, and questioning how they function in relationship to other, less memorialized histories of exploitation, such as indentured and forced labour.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466829305

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Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

Author : David C. Conrad
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781604131642

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Empires of Medieval West Africa by David C. Conrad Pdf

Explores empires of medieval west Africa.