Time in the black experience

This collective volume presents ten chapters on time in various African societies and in black communities in the southern United States and the Caribbean. Contributions: Time in Africa and its diaspora: an introduction, by Joseph K. Adjaye; Ntangu-Tandu-Kolo: the Bantu-Kongo concept of time, by K.K. Bunseki Fu-Kiau; Time, language, and the oral tradition: an African perspective, by Omari H. Kokole; Time, identity, and historical consciousness in Akan, by Joseph K. Adjaye; Time and culture among the Bamana/Mandinka and Dogon of Mali, by Kassim Kon; Time and labour in colonial Africa: the case of Kenya and Malawi, by Alamin Mazrui and Lupenga Mphande; ‘Kafir time’: preindustrial temporal concepts and labor discipline in nineteenth-century colonial Natal, by Keletso E. Atkins; Time and history among a Maroon people: the Aluku, by Kenneth M. Bilby; Jamaican Maroons: time and historical identity, by Josph K. Adjaye; Early African-American attitudes toward time and work, by Mechal Sobel; Time in the African diaspora: the Gullah experience, by Joseph E. Holloway.