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The Ta:rikh Mandinka from Bijini has been published in a classical format (as a monograph in Brill's African Sources for African History Series), but the publishing process of this book was rather extraordinary. This note on the publication serves as an instructive (and encouraging) account for all who work on the documentation and publication of African historical sources. Our “Bijini Experience” illustrates how literate and script-loving persons (academics and publishers alike) can tackle a source in which the oral and the written have always been blurred.

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