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Journal articles on the topic "African folktale"

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Mabaso, Eric. "FOLKTALE NARRATION IN THE INDIGENOUS SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGES: AN ARTFUL CUL-DE-SAC?" Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 26, no. 2 (2017): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/671.

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This article highlights the problem that the print mode that the indigenous South African languages (IndiSAL) have largely adopted to preserve the folktale is inadequate. It raises shortfalls in support of the contention that not enough is being done to preserve the art of folktale narration and suggests a way out of the cul-de-sac. Most works on IndiSAL folktales focus on the value of preserving the art itself rather than the mode of preservation. The research follows a performance-centred approach as advocated by inter alia Marivate (1991), Bill (1996), Dorji (2010) and Backe (2014). Compare
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Khan, Khatija Bibi. "SHONA FOLKTALES AS CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE CASE OF A.C. HODZA’S NGANO DZECHINYAKARE (1980)." Commonwealth Youth and Development 13, no. 1 (2016): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1727-7140/1161.

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Some scholars of the genre of the folktale have argued that since time immemorial, folktales have been children’s literature created by adults for children’s pleasure. The main attraction in so describing African folktale as children’s literature was that this form afforded children entertainment as they listened to the stories narrated mostly by the adults, and some sometimes by the children, to other children. Other scholars agreed that folktale are stories of what can happen, but did not actually happen, also worked as a conduit for socialising African children into the cultural value
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Olugbemi-Gabriel, Olumide, and Mbasughun Ukpi. "The signifying culture: An intercultural and qualitative analysis of Tiv and Yoruba folktales for moral instruction and character determination in children." F1000Research 11 (April 25, 2022): 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75732.1.

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Background: In the study of African communities, folktales have remained a constant element. With their origin in the culture of oral storytelling, folktales have often been used by older age groups to guide and mould behavioural patterns in children. In ancient and traditional African societies, children were gathered at the end of the day by older members of the community for tales by moonlight sessions aimed at guiding their moral decisions. With globalisation and its consequent effects such as migration, dislocation and disindigenisation, the culture of communal folktale sessions is experi
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Olugbemi-Gabriel, Olumide, and Mbasughun Ukpi. "The signifying culture: An intercultural and qualitative analysis of Tiv and Yoruba folktales for moral instruction and character determination in children." F1000Research 11 (April 25, 2022): 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75732.1.

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Background: In the study of African communities, folktales have remained a constant element. With their origin in the culture of oral storytelling, folktales have often been used by older age groups to guide and mould behavioural patterns in children. In ancient and traditional African societies, children were gathered at the end of the day by older members of the community for tales by moonlight sessions aimed at guiding their moral decisions. With globalisation and its consequent effects such as migration, dislocation and disindigenisation, the culture of communal folktale sessions is experi
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Olugbemi-Gabriel, Olumide, and Mbasughun Ukpi. "The signifying culture: An intercultural and qualitative analysis of Tiv and Yoruba folktales for moral instruction and character determination in children." F1000Research 11 (May 15, 2023): 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75732.2.

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Background: In the study of African communities, folktales have remained a constant element. With their origin in the culture of oral storytelling, folktales have often been used by older age groups to guide and mould behavioural patterns in children. In ancient and traditional African societies, children were gathered at the end of the day by older members of the community for tales by moonlight sessions aimed at guiding their moral decisions. With globalisation and its consequent effects such as migration, dislocation and disindigenisation, the culture of communal folktale sessions is experi
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Kwami, Robert. "A West African Folktale in the Classroom." British Journal of Music Education 3, no. 1 (1986): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026505170000509x.

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The author describes an investigation into the use of West African folklore in the school curriculum by means of an African folktale which became the basis for a project in the class music lessons. Starting with research into West African folklore, particularly children's stories and songs, in Ghana and Nigeria between 1979 and 1983, music was composed in a basically African style to go with an adaptation of one of the stories.The practical work in a London primary school investigated ways of minimising the apparent dichotomy between African and Western musics in the curriculum.
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Makaudze, Godwin. "African Leadership in Children's Literature: Illustrations from the Shona Ngano (Folktale) Genre." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 2 (2020): 321–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0361.

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Feminist scholarship sees African society as traditionally patriarchal, while the colonists saw traditional African leadership as lacking in values such as democracy, tolerance, and accountability, until these were imposed by Europeans. Using Afrocentricity as a theoretical basis, this article examines African leadership as portrayed in the Shona ngano [folktale] genre and concludes that, in fact, leadership was neither age- nor gender-specific and was democratic, tolerant, and accountable. It recommends further research into African oral traditions as a way of arriving at more positive images
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Adeoye, EA, AO Okeowo, AF Yusuf, and O. Rotimi. "Proposing an Indigenous Nigerian Folktale Therapy as a Counselling Model for Character Training and Behaviour Change among School Children." Journal of Science and Sustainable Development 5, no. 1 (2013): 29–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jssd.v5i1.3.

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Using the Yoruba race of Nigeria as fulcrum for the study, this paper examines the universality and didactic significance of archetypes in African folklore. The authors contend that Africa folklore, by virtue of its highly moralizing and didactic elements made possible by an embedded commonality of instructive archetypes, offers a lifeline that counsellors andpsychologists can use in combating the moral decay in the Nigerian society. Based on this premise the paper goes on to present a counselling model for character training and behaviour change through the use of an indigenous Nigerian Folkt
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Letsie, M. M. "The unwritten textbook of the folktale: A case study of 'Morongwa le Morongwanyana' (The Messenger and the Small messenger)." Literator 25, no. 3 (2004): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.262.

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This article explores the unwritten textbook of the folktale in the case of “Morongwa le Morongwanyana” [The Messenger and the Small messenger], a South African folktale recorded and published by A.T. Malepe. Against the background of current problems with the folktale tradition, it is argued that the unwritten textbook can help improve three educational practices, namely the practice of educating children at home, the practice of teaching and learning at school, and the practice of educational mass media. The nature and content of the unwritten textbook of the Batswana culture as defined by O
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Patrick, Charles Alex. "Humour and Tragedy in Conversation: A Critical Analysis of an Ụkwụanị Folktale". GVU Journal of Humanities 7, № 1 (2023): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8172829.

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This paper examined the rubrics and nuances of oral narratives, paying close attention to the narrative devices, phonaesthetics resources, form and structure which enliven a folktale during a performance. The study made use of both primary and secondary sources of data. A folktale titled “'Nwa Ogbei Obodo” from an Ụkwụanị community in Delta State constitutes the primary data. The paper explored those features which give the tale the surrealistic world of fantasy typical of many tales like magic, dream motif, supernatural elements, the trickster, etc. It also explored paralingui
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African folktale"

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Earl, Jennifer. "The influence of African folktales on Sylvia Path's 'Ariel voice'." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12847.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>In this study I trace the influence of Paul Radin’s collection of African folktales on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel poems. Elements from these tales have been identified by various critics in Plath’s “Poem for a Birthday” sequence which, according to Hughes, she wrote around the same time as she was reading the African tales. However, the importance of the tales to her later poetry has not yet been fully explored in Plath criticism. “Poem for a Birthday” marks an important stage in the emergence of what has become known as Plath’s “Ariel voice” and it is my cont
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Kratz, Julia. "Translating African folktales for children into German : challenges, strategies and solutions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85776.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African author Linda Rode‘s book In die Nimmer-Immer Bos (2009a) and Elsa Silke‘s English translation thereof In the Never-Ever Wood (2009b) have won a number of prizes in South Africa, which is evidence both of the quality of the anthology and its translation, as well as of the continued significance of the folktale genre in today‘s fast-paced, modern society. People continue to make sense of the world through telling stories and, although the stories told today might be marked by life in the 21st century, our ancestors
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Naidu, Sam. "Transcribing tales, creating cultural identities an analysis of selected written english texts of Xhosa folktales." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002229.

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This thesis maps a marriage of postcolonial theory and folklore studies. The progeny of this marriage is an analytic tool which can suitably and effectively tackle the subject of written folktale texts, whether they be part of a nineteenth century colonialist discourse, or a twenty-first century nationalist discourse. First, GM Theal's collection of folktale texts, Kaffir Folklore (1882), is analysed as part of his specific colonialist discourse. Theal formulated for himself, and for the Xhosa peoples, identities which consolidated the colonialisms he supported. I argue that these folktale tex
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Lefao, Maya Taliilagi. "Fa'aSamoa: An Afro-Oceanic Understanding of Epistemology through Folktales and Oral History." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/462913.

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African American Studies<br>M.A.<br>Often disconnected from the African diaspora, the Black South Pacific is constantly laid to the wayside. My research works to shed light on the voices of Afro-Oceanic scholars who are fully capable of articulating their own narratives based on their traditional foundational knowledge that may not align with standard western notions of knowledge but in fact create a system or methods of knowledge unique to the Afro-Oceanic community and traditions. The indigenous Afro-Oceanic agenda of self-determination, indigenous rights and sovereignty, integrity, spiritua
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Mayaba, Nokhanyo Nomakhwezi. "Exploring the use of folktales to enhance the resilince of children orphaned and rendered vulnerable." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/2776.

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The recent increase in the number of children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS in South Africa has placed an added burden on schools as sites of care and support. Education policies mandate schools to develop strategies to support such children, but this is no easy task in contexts where teachers are already struggling to fulfill instructional requirements. Literature reveals that teachers in under-resourced schools, where the problem is more severely experienced regard this increased pastoral role as an added responsibility that they do not feel competent to execute. Since the
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Kabaji, Egara Stanley. "The construction of gender through the narrative process of the African folktale: a case study of the Maragoli folktale." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1798.

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The purpose of the study was to identify the gender-related themes from a cultural discourse in order to determine how gender is constructed in African society. The study specifically examines the Maragoli Folktale. The Maragoli people mainly inhabit the western part of Kenya and are a sub-tribe of the larger Luhyia community. The Luhyia community is the second largest community in Kenya. The study attempts to uncover how gender is constructed through the examination of dominant themes, characterization, images, symbols, formulaic patterns and formalities of composition and performance in t
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De, Bruin Annemarié. "The role of children in the Zulu folktale." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1036.

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Chapter 1 introduces the study by means of its aim, scope, methodology and terminology. It also hosts summaries of all the folktales that are analysed in this study. Chapter 2 is a study of parenthood and its portrayal in Zulu folktales. Motherhood and fatherhood will be scrutinised separately. Chapter 3 concentrates on girl characters as siblings, brides and companions to old men. Chapter 4 analyses boy characters as herd boys, villains, tricksters and companions to old women. Chapter 5 concentrates on the status of the Zulu folktale. The influence of urbanisation, gender, and the m
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Lubambo, Remah Joyce. "Manipulation in folklore: a perspective in some siSwati folktales." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26751.

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Owing to changes brought by modernisation, folktales and other folklore genres are often looked down upon, and thought by many to be outdated. The aim of this study is to explore manipulative behaviour in Siswati folktales. The study glanced at how manipulation is used in folktales, i.e. the causes and key strategies used by manipulators to manipulate their victims. The focus was on the conformism of manipulation in folktales, to current practice of manipulation in different social institutions, implication of manipulation, and how manipulation could be controlled. The researcher used t
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Lubambo, Remah Joyce. "The role played by siSwati folktales in building the character of boys : a socio-functionalist approach." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26605.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-107)<br>This study explored the role played by Siswati folktales in building the character of boys. It included how boys are depicted in folktales and how this depiction influences boys in real life. The study further investigated the correlation between traditional and modern boys and tried to uncover the value of folktales regarding the boys of today. The way boys are portrayed in folktales, their heroism in fighting and conquering monsters, could encourage present-day boys to fight the monsters that they come across daily. Based on the a
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Rananga, Ntshengedzeni Collins. "Professionalising storytelling in African languages with special reference to Venda." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1329.

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Unlike in the days of yore where storytelling was primarily known for its entertainment value, storytelling should be harnessed to make people's livelihood. Chapter 1 serves as prologue wherein the background of the study, problem statement, statement of aims, research methodology, research questions, hypotheses, definition of terms and organization of the study are presented. Storytelling began with the aim of transmitting the culture of people from one generation to another. There are different theories to account for the origin of stories. The identified problem is that storytelling is
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Books on the topic "African folktale"

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Ching. The baboon's umbrella: An African folktale. Childrens Press, 1991.

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ill, Perrins Karen, ed. The frog king: An African folktale. Child's World, 2012.

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Guthrie, Donna. Nobiah's well: A modern African folktale. Ideals Children's Books, 1993.

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Cartwright, Pauline. Table for two: An African folktale. Celebration Press, 1996.

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ill, Grifalconi Ann, ed. The lion's whiskers: An Ethiopian folktale. Scholastic, 1995.

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Mbunwe-Samba, Patrick. Wimbum ancestral voices: Cameroon folktale heritage. s.n., 1993.

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Souci, Robert D. San. The hired hand: An African-American folktale. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997.

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ill, Meisel Paul, ed. Monkey-Monkey's trick: Based on an African folktale. Random House, 1988.

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McKissack, Pat. Monkey-Monkey's trick: Based on an African folktale. Random House, 1988.

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McKissack, Pat. Monkey-Monkey's trick: Based on an African folktale. Random House, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "African folktale"

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Sumner, Claude. "Ethiopian Case: Folktale and Wisdom." In Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_128.

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Afolayan, Michael Oladejo. "Teaching Folklore and Oral Traditions: The Folktale Medium as Pedagogy." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_50.

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Zimmerman, Tegan. "Fiction as a Spider’s Web? Ananse and Gender in Karen Lord’s Speculative Folktale Redemption in Indigo." In Chronotropics. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32111-5_15.

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AbstractKaren Lord’s speculative folktale Redemption in Indigo (2010) engages the other-wordly or un-worldly to explore Caribbean social justice issues such as race, gender, and class inequality. Demonstrating her trickster powers, Lord merges folk gods and hero(ines) from different African traditions, for example Akan, Ashanti, Xhosa, and Karamba, with those found in Caribbean cultures. This syncretic textual strategy not only emphasizes the subversive, liminal qualities of both Ananse, the African-Caribbean folk figure, and Anansesem in challenging colonial metanarratives of time and space t
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Haring, Lee. "2. Varieties of Performing." In World Oral Literature Series. Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0315.02.

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Chapter 2 benefits from a larger corpus collected over several years by Noël J. Gueunier and his collaborator Madjidhoubi Said. Numerous versions of Africa’s most widespread folktale, the defiant girl who marries a monster in human disguise, reinforce the importance of making a proper marriage. The popularity of the tale, in many versions in a small island, show performers varying it in tone and borrowing elements from other tales. One version is totally politicized. Other adaptations change the wife from victim into a potent folktale heroine. Narrators also tell about the trickster Bwanawasi
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Ninan, Olúfẹ́mi D., Samuel M. Aládé, Karen C. Olúfokùnbí, Adékúnlé O. Afọlábí, Isaac O. Ẹlẹ́sẹ̀moy, and Ọdẹ́túnjí A. Ọdẹ́jọbí. "Digital Animation of African Folktales: A Perspective from Yorùbá Experiments." In Current Issues in Descriptive Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2932-8_41.

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Ayoh’Omidire, Félix. "The Re-invention of Myths, Legends, Panegyrics and Folktales in the Afro-Latin-American Diaspora." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_38.

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DORGBADZI, SARAH. "Orality & the Folktale." In African Theatre 18. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvktrxj4.11.

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Yankah, Kwesi. "The folktale and its extensions." In The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521832755.003.

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Dorgbadzi, Sarah. "Orality & the Folktale: Reflections on Anansesɛm & its Metaphysical Content." In African Theatre 18. Boydell and Brewer, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781787446953-009.

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Niala, Jc. "Cultural Production in a Digital Age A reflection on the adaptation of an African folktale for a young audience." In African Theatre: Contemporary Dance. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787443150.008.

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