Excerpt from Interview: Curtin speaks about doing oral history:

During the interview sampled here, Curtin speaks of several publications. First, his main work on Senegambia, for which the Bundu material was quite critical: Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade, Wisconsin, 1975, 2 volumes. Second, an earlier volume which he edited and published as Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (Wisconsin, 1967); in that volume he wrote the chapter on Ayuba Diallo, a "noble man" from Bundu. Ayuba (Job) was engaged in commerce along the Gambia route in the 1720s, was captured and exported to Maryland in the Atlantic slave trade; in the 1730s he gained his freedom and returned to Gambia and Bundu; one book about him Curtin alludes to is The Fortunate Slave . And finally an article which resulted from some of the Bundu material, as told by the griots and other informants, and which he published as "The uses of oral tradition in Senegambia; Maalik Sii and the foundation of Bundu," Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, 1975.