- Sienaert , E. R. , Bell , A. N. and Lewis , M. , eds. 1991 . “ ‘Literacy and Literature’ ” . In Oral Tradition and Innovation: New Wine in Old Bottles Durban : University of Natal Oral Documentation and Research Centre . This article is a substantially revised version of a conference paper published as, in, eds, combined with material from a lecture delivered at different venues in 1990 and 1991, entitled The Tyranny of Literacy’, together with some of the ideas introduced in my ‘Perpetuating Power Reading and Writing in Natal and the Zulu Kingdom' (Paper, Journal of Southern African Studies Twentieth-Anniversary Conference, York, September 1994)
- Hofmeyer , I. 1993 and 1994 . We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told”: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom Portsmouth, NH, Johannesburg, London The two major exceptions to this are(and L. Vail and L. White, Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History (Charlottesville and London, 1991.For some comparative references to the historical impact of literacy, see also Jean and John Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1991), 192–32
- Graff , H. J. 1987 . The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society Bloomington and Indiana This is not a bibliographic article and it is not firmly situated in the recent literature on literacy, but mention should be made of (H.J. Graff, The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflection on Literacy Past and Present (London, New York and Philadelphia, 1987);and Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge, 1979). For a recent introduction to the Geld, see D. Barton, Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of the Written Language (Oxford, 1994)
- Harries , P. 1989 . “ ‘Exclusion, Classification and Internal Colonialism: The Emergence of Ethnicity Among the Tsonga-Speakers of South Africa’ ” . In The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa Edited by: Vail , L. London, Berkeley and Los Angeles
- White , Vail . Power and the Praise Poem 25
- Ong , W. J. 1982 . Orality and literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 14 – 32 . London and New York See also Ong's statement on p. 41 that ‘Of course oral cultures do not lack originality of their own kind’
- Ibid 11
- White , Vail . Power and the Praise Poem 73
- Bloch , M. 1989 . “ ‘Literacy and Enlightenment’ ” . In Literacy and Society Edited by: Schousboe , K. and Larsen , M. T. Akademisk Forlag : Copenhagen University, Centre for Research in the Humanities . See in, eds, and Barton, Literacy, 116ff, where a critique of the idea of a ‘Great Divide’ is mounted
- Orality and Literacy 11 Ong
- Casalis , E. 1861 . The Basutos 82 – 3 . London Italics are in the original
- Ong . Orality and Literacy 33
- I deal with the history of literacy and the Zulu kings in greater detail in my paper 'Perpetuating Power”
- Isaacs , N. 1970 . Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa 34 Cape Town reprint
- Guy , J. , ed. 1993 . “ The argument here is developed in my paper ‘Shaka kaSenzangakhona: A Reassessment’ ” . In ‘Introduction to Historical Studies: A Resource Book’ Durban : Department of History, University of Natal . in mimeo)
- 1926 . The Diary of the Rev. Francis Owen, M.A. Cape Town passim
- Bird , J. 1888 . The Annals of Natal Vol. 1 , 281 Pietermaritzburg
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- Naidoo , J. 1989 . “ ‘Was the Retief-Dingane Treaty a Fake?’ ” . In Tracking Down Historical Myths: Eight South African Cases Edited by: Naidoo , J. Johannesburg in
- Haemes , P. 1986 . “ ‘The Zulu Kingdom, Norwegian Missionaries, and British Imperialism, 1845–1879’ ” . In Norwegian Missions in African History: South Africa 1845–1906 Edited by: Simensen , J. 113 Oslo Quoted in in
- Colenso , J. W. 1881–1883 . The Course of Political Events in Zululand, from October, 1881, to 16 June, 1883. Official, Colonial & Zulu Statements, Analysed and Compared by the Bishop of Natal 691 Bishopstowe n
- Hærnes . ‘The Zulu Kingdom, Norwegian Missionaries' 148
- Colenso . ‘The Course of Political Events' 554
- Guy , J. 1979 . The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom 127 London Quoted in
- Graff , H J. 1979 . The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City New York
- The Oral History Project was carried out at the Institute of Southern African Studies of the National University of Lesotho and supported from 1982 to 1985 by the Ford Foundation. It was then extended with support from the Norwegian Agency for International Development Aid (NORAD), the University of Trondheim, and the National University of Lesotho
- Guy , J. and Thabane , M. 1991 . “ ‘Basotho Miners, Ethnicity and Workers' Strategies' ” . In Workers in Third-World Industrialization Edited by: Brandell , I. London For a description of the Project, see in
- 1989 . 1990 International Literacy Year: The Newsletter of the International Task Force on Literacy , 4 July ‘Great Debate’
- May 1990 . ILY: Year of Opportunity May , Paris : International Literacy Year, Secretariat of UNESCO . foreword
- Feb. 1990 . Feb. , Indeed, it was a critical letter to The Newsletter of the International Task Force on Literacy by James Draper of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in a subsequent issue (no. 8, which drew my attention to the quotation cited in fn. 28 above
- 1990 . The Challenge 1990: International Literacy Year News Paris : UNESCO . ‘Perspective: World Conference on Education for All: What Next?’
- ILY Year of Opportunity 16
- 4 – 5 . Informant 11:. Citations to material from the Oral History Project refer to the transcripts of the translations from the Sesotho made by Mollatsi Thabane, National University of Lesotho. Underlined words have not been translated… indicates a pause an extended pause or a break in the testimony
- Informant 16: 1
- 26 – 8 . Informant 6
- 1 – 2 . Informant 16
- 38 – 41 . Informant 6
- Breytenbach , B. 1985 . The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist 128 London
- see also 38.Informant 11: 149
- Johnstone , F. A. 1976 . Class, Race and Gold: A Study of Class Relations and Racial Discrimination in South Africa 43 – 32 . London 186–7
- Informant 6: 136ff
- Informant 11: 107
- Informant 2: 12
- Although I have not been able to develop this theme in this article, note in this extract the repetition, backlooping and gestures so characteristic of oral discourse
- 47 – 9 . Informant 4
- 8 – 10 . Informant 3
- 24 – 26 . Informant 13
- 136 – 7 . Ong, Orality and Literacy
- Informant 1: 1
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