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New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio

Title
  1. New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio / Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole, editors.
Published by
  1. Peter Lang : New York, c2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Dixon-Fyle, Mac, 1948-
  2. Cole, Gibril Raschid, 1955-
Description
  1. xxiv, 347 p. : maps; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. American university studies. 0740-0462 ; v. 204
Subject
  1. Creoles (Sierra Leone)
  2. Creoles (Sierra Leone) > Sierra Leone > Freetown
  3. Krio language
  4. Freetown (Sierra Leone) > History
Contents
  1. Akintola Wyse : creator of the Krio myth / Christopher Fyfe -- E-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 Johnson -- Women's associations and female education in Sierra Leone / Filomena Steady -- After partition / John Hargreaves -- A bibliography of the Freetown/Krio experience / Joyce Dixon-Fyle.
Call number
  1. Sc E 06-203
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-329) and index.
Title
  1. New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio / Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole, editors.
Imprint
  1. Peter Lang : New York, c2006.
Series
  1. American university studies. Series IX. History, 0740-0462 ; v. 204
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-329) and index.
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  1. Table of contents
Added author
  1. Dixon-Fyle, Mac, 1948-
  2. Cole, Gibril Raschid, 1955-
LCCN
  1. 2005010688
ISBN
  1. 0820479373 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 06-203
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