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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

as an oral historian in Dar es Salaam. He was a doctoral student of Jan Vansina at University of Wisconsin–Madison, researching the history of the Bemba...