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ENCOUNTERING ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: FROM ORALITY TO LITERACY AND TO THE RISE OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN THE KINGDOMS OF BUGANDA AND BUNYORO

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Vilhanová V.

Asian and African Studies

2016

vol. 25

issue 2

191 – 212

Though the existence of script in some regions of Africa, in ancient Egypt, Kush, Nubia or the Ethiopian highlands led to the spread of literacy and of written knowledge, orality was the norm in many African societies in the past, and in much of Africa, historical and other knowledge remained to be constructed, maintained and conveyed by word of mouth, in poetic, musical and dramatic settings and graphic symbolism closely related to speech. Cultural contacts with Islam and later on with Christianity brought writing systems, Arabic and Latin scripts and literacy replaced orality and prompted the production of written knowledge. The arrival of Islam and somewhat later of Christianity into the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro brought literacy in its train and led to the development of a rich tradition of historical writing.

RETHINKING THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

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Pawliková-Vilhanová V.

Asian and African Studies

2010

vol. 19

issue 1

134-167

The process of the up-country Islamic expansion, away from the Islamised towns situated on the long East African coast, began only in the nineteenth-century. Islam advanced slowly and gradually along a network of caravan routes through trading contacts with some African peoples, spread by ordinary adherents, Kiswahili-speaking merchants, who penetrated the interior of Eastern Africa in search for ivory and slaves. Economic and trading interests and activities played also a role in the spread of Islam at the southernmost tip of the African continent. Many slaves and political prisoners sent to the Cape during the period 1652 to 1795 were Muslims. Even though the idea of a comparison between Eastern and Southern Africa may arouse contradictory reactions among the Islam ś students, an attempt will be made at an appraisal of similarities and differences in the expansion of Islam, Islam's contribution to literacy, education and intellectual development.

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ENCOUNTERING ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: FROM ORALITY TO LITERACY AND TO THE RISE OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN THE KINGDOMS OF BUGANDA AND BUNYORO

RETHINKING THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA