Krio Women of Sierra Leone
Title | Krio Women of Sierra Leone PDF eBook |
Author | Filomina Chioma Steady |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781607976424 |
New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio
Title | New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio PDF eBook |
Author | Mac Dixon-Fyle |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780820479378 |
The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone - an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent - is a fascinating study in hybridity, creolization, European cultural penetration, the retention of African cultural values, and the interface between New World returnees and autochthonous populations of West Africa. Although its Nigerian connections are often acknowledged, insufficient attention has been paid to the indigenous Sierra Leonean roots of this community. This anthology addresses this problem, while celebrating the complexities of Krio identity and Krio interaction with other ethnic groups and nationalities in the British colonial experience.
Women and the Amistad Connection
Title | Women and the Amistad Connection PDF eBook |
Author | Filomina Chioma Steady |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society is a welcome relief from reports of the ten-year rebel war in Sierra Leone and gives a glimpse of life in a part of Sierra Leone during its more customary periods of peace. It is an important and timely record of a people whose lives may have been changed forever. This rather unique group, the Krios of Sierra Leone is presented from a perspective in which women are central. It uses an indigenous model and allows the women to "speak for themselves" while refraining from imposing extemal theoretical and other explanatory models. The study examines the history and development of a pluri-cultural society representing African, European and New World influences which resulted from the repatriation to Freetown, Sierra Leone of freed slaves from different parts of the world. The role of women in maintaining the kinship and household structure; life cycle events and rituals are central to understanding this complex and dynamic society. The study deals with the history and current situation of women and their informal and formal associations including their world view. It argues that Krio society is both "sui generis" and "diasporic" because of its cultural links to both Africa and to the African Diaspora. It examines the elements that constitute a rather unique Krio cultural model representing its social organization, kinship, the family and household, life-cycle and special events. This pluri-cultural feature, it is argued, best explains the resilience of this group to many challenges over the years, including the recent challenge of a protracted and brutal rebel war. The book will be a valuable contribution to African studies,women's studies and anthropology because of its uniqueness. It is the first comprehensive and systematic study of the social organization and culture of this group from a perspective in which women are central. It also elaborates on many of the previous studies on the Krios previously referred to as "Creoles". It will augment the limited material available on women in the African Diaspora. No study of Africa, the African Diaspora or women in Africa would be complete without the important dimension that the study brings to the literature.
Krio Women of Sierra Leone
Title | Krio Women of Sierra Leone PDF eBook |
Author | Filomina Chioma Steady |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Freetown (Sierra Leone) |
ISBN | 9781607974932 |
The Krio of Sierra Leone
Title | The Krio of Sierra Leone PDF eBook |
Author | Akintola J. G. Wyse |
Publisher | C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Creole (Sierra Leone) |
ISBN | 9781850650317 |
Wyse interprets the history of the Krio from their earliest days as a collective entity to the present, charting their rise and decline as a political force and examining the characteristic ethos of the people as expressed in their social, economic, and above all, educational aspirations.
The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English
Title | The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Kortmann |
Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9783110279887 |
The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic). The analyses of the 74 varieties are based on descriptive materials, naturalistic corpus data, and native speaker knowledge.
Sierra Leone's Settler Women Traders
Title | Sierra Leone's Settler Women Traders PDF eBook |
Author | E. Frances White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A contribution to the debate over the impact of capitalism and colonial rule on the women of Africa