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Oral tradition required scrupulous care to interpret and analyze, while oral histories were based on Africans' recollection of their own experiences and thus were ready-made historical evidence. [...]the interview" was not a very good idea: Willis made a plea for multiple interviews of individuals, because the dissonances between each account "rather than harmony" could offer a critical means of understanding the strains and the opportunities of an informants' social world.