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Alaafin Sango, “Oba kò so”: A Historiographical Note with Psychological Perspectives Focusing on Suicide1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2013

Muideen Owolabi Bakare
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Abstract

This note adds a psychological perspective focusing on suicide to the representations of Alaafin Sango in both written and oral literature, and thus explores the dynamics of the images of this widely regarded hero.

Résumé

Cette note ouvre une perspective psychologique autour du suicide sur les représentations d’Alaafin Sango dans la littérature orale et écrite, en explorant ainsi les multiples facettes et répandues de celui que l’on considère comme un héro.

Type
Moving Meanings in Museal Collections
Information
History in Africa , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , October 2013 , pp. 313 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2013 

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