Jan Jansen (historian)

Dr. Jan Jansen (born 1962) of Leiden University, Netherlands, is a historian and anthropologist specialising in the oral history of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Mali.

Jansen is the managing editor of History in Africa, the journal of the African Studies Association.Editorial Board History in Africa, 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014. He is also a founding editor of Mande Worlds, published by LIT Verlag, Munster/Hamburg, and African Sources for African History, published by Brill, Leiden.Jan Jansen African Studies Centre Leiden, 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014. Archived here.

Selected publications L'Épopée de Sunjara, d'après Lansine Diabate de Kela. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1995. (with E. Duintjer and B. Tamboura). The Griot's Craft – An Essay on Oral Tradition and Diplomacy. Műnster-Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2000. Epopée Histoire Société – Le cas de Soundjata (Mali-Guinée). Paris: Karthala, 2001. [French edition of 1995 dissertation]).

See also Oral history in modern Mali

References

External links University of Leiden profile.