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Jan Vansina
Jan Vansina (born 14 September 1929) is a Belgian historian and anthropologist specializing in Africa. He is the foremost authority on the history of the peoples of Central Africa.
==Biography==
Vansina was first trained as a medievalist and ethnographer but became known as one of the most prominent Africanist scholars. In his work, he focuses on the history of African societies prior to European contact, and is widely regarded as the foremost authority on the history of the peoples of Central Africa. He has published widely on the subject, including a landmark text on the factual interpretation oral history. On Vansina, historian David Beach writes, "In 1985, Jan Vansina's ''Oral Tradition as History'' provided a worldwide theoretical framework on oral tradition that rendered nearly all of its predecessors obsolete."
Vansina obtained his doctorate in history from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1957. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Vansina assisted Alex Haley (the author of the 1976 novel ''Roots: The Saga of an American Family'') in deciphering several African words that had been handed down from Haley's ancestors, determining that they were of Mandinka origin.()
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