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Ethnographic Literature This page gives a brief introduction into the history and trends of ethnographic literature dealing with the peoples of the Northern Mandaras, presented below under the headings Early Writings, Colonial Reports and Ethnographic Texts. In order to identify the full bibliographical references mentioned please go to bibliography. To find literature dealing with particular ethnic groups, please click the group of your interest from the list of ethnic units. The list contains over fifty ethnic groups with references to their respective languages. Early
Writings
The earliest mentioning of peoples of the northern Mandaras and its surrounding plains goes back to the Italian monk Fra Mauro who produced a world map around 1450, in which he placed the ‘Mergi’ (Margi) and ‘Mandera’ (Wandala) as well as some names of places at their approximately correct geographical position. The external sources of the sixteenth century are writings of Leo Africanus (1526), Giovanni Lorenzo Anania (1573) and Ibn Furtu (1582). Main internal source of the seventeenth and eighteenth century is the Kirgam-a-Wandala or ‘chronicles of Wandala’ (Mohammadou 1982). The major nineteenth-century European sources are Denham (1826) and Barth (1857). |
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Chikide men up in the Gwoza Hills sharing sorghum beer.
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Colonial
Reports The first topographical map of the Northern Mandaras was produced by the German colonial geographer Moisel (1912-13). Important German colonial reports have been written by Hauptmann Zimmermann (1906), Oberleutnant Dominik (1908), Hauptmann Struempell (1910-1922) and Hauptmann von Raben (1914-1916). British and French colonial reports of particular ethnographic interest are Mathews (1934), MacBride (1937), White (1944), Vaillant (1946), Mouchet (1938-1955) and the annual reports of the British and French (see colonial office) to the League of Nations and the United Nations (1927-1961). An internal source is The Diary of Hamman Yaji (1912-1927). Ethnographic
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