Question:
No element has served as a clearer
signature of and for African historiography than the development of oral source
and oral history within the programs of recovering the African past. Cement on
this statement.
Oral
sources are the sources which provide verbal information about the past.
According to Jan Vansina, oral sources are of two types and these are eye
witness account and oral traditions. Eye witness accounts are the oral
information given by the person who witnessed the event or participated in it
and this depends much on experiences of the informant who witnessed such kind
of event
