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Recording the Oral History of the Bakuba—I. Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

J. Vansina
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The peoples who occupy the region between the rivers Sankuru, Kasai and Lulua are called Kuba by their neighbours. They form a congeries of eighteen different tribes subdivided in numerous chiefdoms. These enjoy an internal autonomy but they form a single kingdom ruled by a central tribe, the Bushong, whose chief is king. He exacts tribute from the other chiefdoms and used to control, more or less, their external policy.

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Research Article
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The Journal of African History , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1960 , pp. 43 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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1 The study was made under the auspices of I.R.S.A.C. The historical results are about to be published in French in the series of the Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge under the title: La valeur historique de la tradition orale et l'histoire kuba. A second article by M. Vansina, on the results of his researches among the Bakuba will appear in the next issue of this Journal.—Editor.Google Scholar

2 Bemheim, E., Lehrbuch der Historischen Methode und der Geschichtsphilosophie, Leipzig (1905), 5.Google Scholar

3 Bloch, M., Apologie pour l'histoire ou le métier d'historien—Cahiers des annales, Paris (1952).Google Scholar