Jan M. J. Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central...

Exploration of Ethics. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010, ISBN 0253222443 Vansina, Jan: "Oral Tradition as History", 1985, James Currey Publishers, ISBN 0-85255-007-3...

ISBN 9780199398201. Jan Vansina (2001). Le Rwanda ancien: le royaume nyiginya (in French). KARTHALA. p. 221. ISBN 9782845861459. Jan Vansina (2004). Antecedents...

the prehistoric human migrations. This geographical proximity, states Jan Vansina, suggests that the Congo River region, home of the Kongo people, was...

and Jan Vansina use an approximate number of 10 million. Hochschild cites several recent independent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina...

their history, which still persists in many countries today. Historian Jan Vansina (1962) discusses the classification of Sub–Saharan African Kingdoms,...

Jan Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1990 Jan Vansina...

Hochschild and Jan Vansina use the number 10 million. Hochschild cites several recent independent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others...

it was the office of the King of the Asante Empire. Scholars such as Jan Vansina have described the governance of the Asante Empire as a federation where...

Bethwell A. Ogot, etc. It also included non-African experts, such as Jan Vansina, Jean Devisse [fr] and Philip Curtin. The main preoccupation of Phase...

orally whilst some had developed or had access to a writing script. Jan Vansina differentiates between oral and literate civilisations, stating: "The...

Accounts of the regional royal lineages have led some historians such as Jan Vansina to the conclusion that Bugesera originally dominated Rwanda, with the...

to Hochschild's of the high death toll in Leopold's Congo, among them Jan Vansina, who appeared in the documentary based on the book, and the demographer...

and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu states in Angola, Oxford: Clarendon, 1976 Jan Vansina Kingdoms of Savanna: A History of the Central African States until European...

century. Jan Vansina proposed that the name of this mwami within the royal genealogy was likely referring to 2 or 3 separate kings. Vansina, Jan. 2004....

won and declared its independence, which was also claimed by historian Jan Vansina in 1966 and then others, but this appears to have been a misreading of...

Mario Pinto de Andrade, M'hamed Alaoui Abdalaoui, Daniel P. Kunene and Jan Vansina. Mugo, Delfhin (5 October 2020). "The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing...

used by other historians. According to Marchal, this was the reason why Jan Vansina, approached by Hochschild with the question of whom to contact, did not...

the governor of the Central Bank Albert Ndele, and Belgian historian Jan Vansina; where the latter came up with the name as it believably designates,...

original on 2004-09-05. Retrieved 2004-08-06. 1 How Societies Are Born by Jan Vansina: "Of Water, Cattle, and Kings" Boy-Wives and Female Husbands edited by...

placing its founding perhaps in the thirteenth century. Research by Jan Vansina proposes that the origin of larger political structures began within...

contacts with the Directorate. He meets with a former colleague, Jan Vansina, only to have Vansina killed before his eyes. At another point, when he is about...

toll. He cites several recent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others, that examine local sources (police records, religious records...

2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Jan Vansina, Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in...

likeliest origin of the African words passed down by Kunta Kinte. Dr. Jan Vansina explains that in the Mandinka tongue, kora is a type of stringed instrument...

attacked the Kingdom of Kongo during the reign of Alvaro I. In the 1960s, Jan Vansina and David Birmingham hypothesized that the oral traditions of the Lunda...

Journal of African Historical Studies. 34 (1): 89–120. JSTOR 3097288. Jan Vansina, Notes sur l'origine du royaume de Kongo, The Journal of African History...

mid-18th century. Jan Vansina suggests from the oral traditions that he was the victim of a coup by Cyilima II Rujugira. Vansina, Jan. 2004. Antecedents...

of Jan Vansina, CoEditor with Joseph C. Miller, Michele D. Wagner, and David S. Newbury, Atlanta: African Studies Association Press, 1994 Jan Vansina "Robert...

Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800. Psychology Press. 1999. ISBN 9781857283921. Jan Vansina, Kingdoms of the Savanna, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press...