New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio

Maps xi Foreword xiii C. MAGBAILY FYLE Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1(222) MAC DIXON-FYLE & GIBRIL R. COLE 1 Akintola Wyse: Creator of the Krio Myth 25(8) CHRISTOPHER FYFE 2 Re-thinking the Demographic Make-up of Krio Society 33(20) GIBRIL R. COLE 3 The Sierra Leone Carrier Corps and Krio Responses to Recruitment in World War I 53(38) FESTUS COLE 4 'We have the Cause of Africa at Heart": West Indians and African Americans in 19th Century Freetown 91(16) NEMATA BLYDEN 5 Rescuing the Footnoted: Immigrant Krio Travails on the Niger, 1865-1926 107(26) MAC DIXON-FYLE 6 Nuggets of Kno Wisdom: Structure, Figurative Language and the Construction of Meaning in the Krio Proverb 133(18) SHEIKH U. KAMARAH 7 The Krio Language: Diglossic and Political Realities 151(16) ABDUL K. BANGURA 8 Aborigines and Returnees: In Search of Linguistic and Historical Meaning in Delineations of Sierra Leone's Ethnicity and Heritage 167(34) JOKO SENGOVA 9 Re-lighting Sierra Leonean History: A Comparative Study of the Re-interpretation of Aspects of Sierra Leonean History by Syl Cheney-Coker and Yema Lucilda Hunter 201(22) EUSTACE PALMER 10 Creolivation and Kriodom: (Re) Visioning the "Sierra Leone Experiment" 223(34) TOM SPENCER-WALTERS 11 Road to Freedom: History and the Creative Imagination 257(10) ALEX C. JOHNSON 12 Women!r Associations and Female Education in Sierra Leone 267(20) FILOMINA C. STEADY 13 After Partition 287(12) JOHN D. HARGREAVES 14 A Bibliography of the Freetown/Krio Experience 299(32) JOYCE DIXON-FYLE Appendix 331(2) List of Contributors 333