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Historical SummaryOther African tribes show a finely graduated reaction in all personality approaches. Migeod reports, for example, that on the appearance of a stranger among a group of Sierra Leone dancing girls practicing in the forest there is not confusion nor a chorus of cries, but a delicate depersonalization of the situation is effected by the group’s addressing him in a singsong chorus:
If Sande girls accidentally meet a European in the road and they have not time to disperse into the bush, should he greet them, he should address himself to the old woman in charge, giving the usual common salutation of Bua. This is a corruption of Bu wa or Bi wa, "You come," and is the common Mende salutation. They may reply in chorus, Ai-ye-jo. Then if they speak further it will be also in chorus, not individually, the leader who directs being the minutest part of a second of time ahead of the others. It is a singsong reply in unison.2
2Migeod, F.W. H.n/an/an/an/a, , 245.
Chicago:
A View of Sierra Leone in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed July 18, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JW1SA7MCVU6IMYE.
MLA:
. A View of Sierra Leone, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 18 Jul. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JW1SA7MCVU6IMYE.
Harvard:
, A View of Sierra Leone. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 July 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JW1SA7MCVU6IMYE.
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