In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a
people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until
their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By
analyzing their oral histories, myths and legends, the author
describes the political and cultural development of a people who,
before 1891, had no written records, and accounts of whose past had
previously been confined to the sketchy recitation of wars and
succession struggles that characterize many existing books on
pre-colonial African states. Yoder sets his work firmly within the
larger context of the southern savanna by extending his
investigations to the traditions of neighboring peoples, in
particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated
the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and
ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to
local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby
forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of
the entire region.
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