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Title:A Traditional History of the Konyan (15th-16th Century): Case Camara's Epic of Musada
Author:Geysbeek, TimISNI
Year:1994
Periodical:History in Africa
Volume:21
Pages:49-58
Language:English
Geographic term:Guinea
Subjects:epics (form)
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171881
Abstract:In an oral discourse passed down through many generations, the village elder Vase Kamara, who is from Kalagba in southern Guinea, describes how a slave named Zo Musa Kòma founded the ancient town of Musadu in Guinea and explains how the legendary Kamara ancestor Foningama later became a leader in Musadu. The present author tentatively dates some elements of the Zo Musa stories to about the 14th and 15th century, when the Manding began to assimilate and push the southwestern and eastern Mande-speaking peoples from the Musadu area in the Konyan to the forest. Vase Kamara's narrative is published here in order to give an example of the detail, drama, and flavour that characterize one of the most complete of these histories. The text is the first of three of Vase's that have been translated. It was probably narrated in 1979, and translated in 1985. In an introduction, the author places the political and religious aspects of Vase's discourse in historical context. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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