What is Jaliya?
Where do we come in?

This publication was created to share in the Jali’s work.

While the writing strives to be engaging and entertaining, that isn’t the primary focus of it. Jaliya will only publish well-researched articles with sources listed at the bottom of the page. Plagiarism is obviously not allowed, meaning that you must engage with your sources in a meaningful way.

Teaching history should be neither boring nor sensationalist.

I’ve found the more dogmatic a piece of history, the less likely that it’s true. We’ll try to present the facts in an entertaining, yet honest way. If we don’t have concrete evidence for something, we won’t state it as a fact. Instead, we’ll share the information as we understand it and perhaps give some alternative theories.

The concept of the Jali is not one that can be transferred like-for-like to articles written for a web publication. With the same breath, their language was used to both obfuscate information and shed light on truth.

That won’t be the case here. Instead, we’ll take the spirit behind the action, telling stories to enlighten and incite.

There is power in speech. And no stories hold power as much as re-tellings of the past. Jaliya will do our best to help you connect with your history in a personal — but never misleading — way.

After all, isn’t that what Jalis ought to do?
['Ian Williams']
['African Literature', 'History Of Culture', 'Africa', 'History', 'African Culture']