Problems associated with African history. Orality as a source

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 80.0%, , language: English, abstract: “History,” according to E.H. Carr, “cannot be written unless the historian can achieve some kind of contact with those about whom he is writing”. Throughout the pursuit of history, we search for a link between the past and the present, and that, almost definitively, arrives in the form of written...