Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination

by Elizabeth Allo Isichei

Book Overview

An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather than that of colonizers and foreigners.

Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory -- an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461794
• ISBN13: 9781580461795
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"