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This essay was originally a lecture given in Hungarian in Pécs,
Hungary, at a conference on African Globalities/Global Africans,
the 4th Pécs African Studies Conference on June 9-10, 2016. It
starts its analysis with the ancient Greeks, since when, and even
more so since Hegel, we have known that in the fields of both think-
ing and actions, along theses and antitheses, then with luck, along
syntheses, “welter” the phrasing of notions and conceptions and the
debates over them as well as everyday and historical events. We
also know that syntheses many times are born with difficulty. What
is more, in many cases, series of theses and antitheses get to grips
with each other for a long period of time without the hope of creat-
ing a synthesis. And of course, to open the gates elsewhere: this
old-world syllogism, as a reflective model, is not sufficient for the
interpretation of the realistic and mental entity that inundates us.
However, nowadays we can pick up on the specific mental-interpretational ideology that stands out in the form of this model whose
essence is Afrocentrism set against the Eurocentric approach (Bier-
naczky, 2017). This is discussed in the paper.

This interview with Professor Jan Vansina, conducted in the mid-1980s by Szilárd Biernaczky, is the result of extensive correspondence between the two. After a brief introduction to the achievements of the distinguished and pioneering scholar of African history, the interview
addresses the following issues: 1. the current status of oral history research; 2. new theories in the field of oral history research; 3. ethnohistory versus oral history; 4. ethnography, ethnology,
European peasantry, and oral history; 5. the mythical dimension of the “beginning” and its inherent historical models (“outbound” segments, migration, new conquest, first ancestors, etc.); 6. oral history as a source of nationalist movements in Africa; 7. the appreciation of oral
history (and its research) and African cultural movements.

This interview with Professor Jan Vansina, conducted in the mid-1980s by Szilárd Biernaczky, is the result of extensive correspondence between the two. After a brief introduction to the achievements of the distinguished and pioneering scholar of African history, the interview
addresses the following issues:
1. the current status of oral history research;
2. new theories in the field of oral history research;
3. ethno-history versus oral history;
4. ethnography, ethnology, European peasantry, and oral history;
5. the mythical dimension of the “beginning” and its
inherent historical models („outbound” segments, migration, new conquest, first ancestors, etc.);
6. oral history as a source of nationalist movements in Africa;
7. the appreciation of oral history (and its research) and African cultural movements.