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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 CHILDRENâ€™S LITERATURE: THE CASE OF A.C. HODZAâ€™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 childrenâ€™s literature created by adults for childrenâ€™s pleasure. The main attraction in so describing African folktale as childrenâ€™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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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.8172996.

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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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Patrick, Charles Alex. "Humour and Tragedy in Conversation: A Critical Analysis of an Ụkwụanị Folktale". GVU of Journal of Humanities 7, № 1 (2023): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8182927.

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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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Naidoo, S. "THE STRUGGLE FOR AUTHORITY IN GEORGE MCCALL THEAL’S KAFFIR FOLKLORE (1882)." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 24, no. 1 (2016): 78–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/1674.

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This article focuses specifically on George McCall Theal’s collection of folktale texts, Kaffir Folklore (1882), as an example of an early South African ethnographic publication, and argues that the folktale transcriptions contained therein, although a part of Theal’s general colonialist project, are hybrid, containing the voices of both coloniser and colonised. The key argument is that the presence of the African voices in this text reveals simultaneously that Theal’s editorial aspirations were never absolutely imposed, and that agency and influence (albeit limited) of the colonised Xhosa co-

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Small, Jean. "Doing Theatre: Theatre Pedagogy through the Folktale." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 11, no. 3 (2020): 80–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29505.

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Theatre Pedagogy holds that cognition is body-based. Through performance the body’s unconscious procedural memory learns. This information learned through repeated interaction with the world is transmitted to the brain where it becomes conscious knowledge. Theatre Pedagogy in this case study is based on the implementation of a Caribbean cultural art form in performance, in order to teach Francophone language and literature at the postsecondary level in Jamaica. This paper describes the experience of “doing theatre” with seven university students to learn the French language and literature base

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Roya, Witness, and Sandiso Ngcobo. "The role of information communication technologies on African indigenous knowledge systems: Folktales." International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478) 12, no. 6 (2023): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v12i6.2662.

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African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) are values that were passed among African generations by word of mouth. Despite the Fourth Industrial Revolution's (4IR) facilitation of rapid communication for every aspect of society, many Africans have not embraced it to store AIKS, mainly due to concerns over biases and prejudices embedded in aspects like information and communication technologies (ICTs). Using decoloniality theory, this paper aims to show the importance of AIKS, which faces extinction due to the combined effects of the deaths of members of the old generation and acculturation. I

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Dr. Vizovono Elizabeth. "‘The Ancestor as Foundation’ in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby." Creative Launcher 5, no. 4 (2020): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.4.06.

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Toni Morrison makes use of elements of ‘Black art’ as a literary technique in her fictional works. She has developed her own theoretical concept of this art in her essays and critical writings. The focus of this paper is to analyze how she applies her theoretical concepts drawn from oral tradition into her fictional works through a study of her characters and storytelling technique in Tar Baby. The novel can be considered a reinvented folktale in which the author has presented relevant complicated issues of identity set against the backdrop of colonization. The paper highlights Morrison’s use

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Porter, Laurence M. "Lost in Translation: From Orature to Literature in the West African Folktale." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 49, no. 3 (1995): 229–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397709.1995.10113498.

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Morgan, Winifred. ""The Coon in the Box": A Global Folktale in African-American Tradition." Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 470 (2005): 492–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137672.

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Stella, Onome Omonigho. "Revalorisation de la tradition africaine à travers le folklore dans le théâtre : une lecture d'Olurounbi ou le prix du pari de Tunde Ajiboye." NDỤÑỌDE: Calabar Journal of The Humanities 13, no. 1 (2018): 220–27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467728.

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Résumé L’arrivée de la civilisation occidentale et dela modernité en Afrique, a occasionné une certaine rupture dans la tradition africaine surtout, dans la tradition orale. Jadis, les Africains se réunissaient au cours des événements traditionnels qui leur permettaient de communier ensemble. Parmi ces événements ressortent des traditions orales dont nous pouvons compter les contes, et des réunions nocturnes autour d’un feu au centre du village ou au milieu d’une cellule familiale. Il y a aussi des r

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Goldberg, Christine. ""Dogs Rescue Master from Tree Refuge," an African Folktale with World-Wide Analogs." Western Folklore 57, no. 1 (1998): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1500248.

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Inggs, Judith. "What is a South African Folktale? Reshaping Traditional Tales through Translation and Adaptation." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 14, no. 1 (2004): 15–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2004vol14no1art1273.

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Canonici, N. N. "B.W. Vilakazi and the birth of the Zulu novel." Literator 31, no. 2 (2010): 15–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i2.45.

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B.W. Vilakazi is rightly famous for his Zulu poems that integrate the Zulu creative genius with established European poetic trends. He was also the creator of the Zulu romantic novel, having written the first three examples of the genre dealing with both personal and national romantic ideals. These are, however, seldom analysed. This article reflects on the emerging literatures in African languages, their aims, contents and forms. After a general introduction on Vilakazi’s life and innovative approach to creative writing within the context of the African mini-renaissance period of the 1930s, t

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El-Shamy, Hasan M. "Twins/Zwillinge: A Broader View. A Contribution to Stith Thompson’s Incomplete Motif System—A Case of the Continuation of Pseudoscientific Fallacies †." Humanities 10, no. 1 (2020): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10010008.

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Explaining the rationale and main objectives for his motif system; Stith Thompson declared that it emulates what “the scientists have done with the worldwide phenomena of biology” (Thompson 1955, I, p. 10). In this respect; the underlying principles for motif identification and indexing are comparable to those devised by anthropologists at Yale for “categorizing” culture materials into 78 macro-units and 629 subdivisions thereof used to establish “The Human Relations Area Files” (HRAF). By comparison, 23 divisions (chapters) make up the spectrum of sociocultural materials covered in Thompson’s

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Morgan, Winifred. ""The Coon in the Box": A Global Folktale in African-American Tradition (review)." Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 470 (2005): 492–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaf.2005.0051.

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Snyman, Elisabeth. "Véronique Tadjo: Is there hope beyond the divisions in contemporary Africa?" Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 1 (2018): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.1646.

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This article proposes a reading of three texts The Blind Kingdom (1990), Queen Pokou. Concerto for a sacrifice (2004) and Far from my Father (2010) written by the Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo, in order to examine the author's representation of, and reflexion on separation and division, be it within a nation, amongst groups, or in the heart of a family. In Tadjo's novelistic universe, such divisions often require the intervention of a female protagonist, whose own existence is deeply influenced by tensions and frictions between two opposing camps. I shall argue that the agency of these protag

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Adeniyi, Emmanuel. "Ṣàngó’s Incest, Oxala’s Equanimity and the Permanence of African Myth-Legends in Atlantic Yorùbá Dramaturgy". Afrika Focus 34, № 2 (2021): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-34020003.

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Abstract This article discusses the permanence of Yorùbá myth-legends in Atlantic Yorùbá dramaturgy. The dramaturgy is conceived as a genre of Atlantic Yorùbá literature produced by the scions of Yorùbá slaves in the New World and some òrìṣà worshippers in the Americas who claim an affiliative relationship with continental Yorùbá. I argue in favour of a myth-legend taxonomy of oral prose narratives as against the Western classification of traditional tales into myth, legend and folktale. Yorùbá traditional tales, also called pataki by the Atlantic Yorùbá, are dubbed myth-legends due to the sha

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Saktiningrum, Nur. "Framing a Trickster Character in Two Different Media and Eras: A Study on Br’er Rabbit in Uncle Remus’ Stories and Disney’s Song of the South." Jurnal Humaniora 29, no. 2 (2017): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.24205.

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This article analyses Br’er Rabbit, a trickster character in African-American folklore. As a trickster Br’er Rabbit possesses a paradoxical nature. On the one hand, Br’er Rabbit acts as a hero but on the other hand, he constantly plays tricks on others and by doing so, he is also violating the prevailing values. These two opposing aspects of trickster’s nature offer an interesting subject for the research. The questions considered worth focusing on in discussing the subject are: How can trickster character be described? What values are represented by trickster character? Is there any shift in

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Saktiningrum, Nur. "Framing a Trickster Character in Two Different Media and Eras: A Study on Br’er Rabbit in Uncle Remus’ Stories and Disney’s Song of the South." Jurnal Humaniora 29, no. 2 (2017): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.v29i2.24205.

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This article analyses Br’er Rabbit, a trickster character in African-American folklore. As a trickster Br’er Rabbit possesses a paradoxical nature. On the one hand, Br’er Rabbit acts as a hero but on the other hand, he constantly plays tricks on others and by doing so, he is also violating the prevailing values. These two opposing aspects of trickster’s nature offer an interesting subject for the research. The questions considered worth focusing on in discussing the subject are: How can trickster character be described? What values are represented by trickster character? Is there any shift in

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Arndt, Susan. "Trans*textuality in William Shakespeare’s Othello: Italian, West African, and English Encounters." Anglia 136, no. 3 (2018): 393–429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2018-0045.

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Abstract William Shakespeare’s Othello (1604) displays a critical agenda towards the emerging colonialist discourse of his time and may have encountered, or even been influenced by, African oral literature. This thesis will be probed in this article by comparing Othello with the folktale “The Handsome Stranger” and the Trickster character, well known all across Western Africa, touching lightly on Leo Africanus’s The History and Description of Africa (1550) in the process. In doing so, Othello’s most acknowledged source text, “Un Capitano Moro” by Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1565), will be invol

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U., Nnyagu,, Udoh, C., and Ihueze, O. A. "Narratological Exploration of Igbo Folkloric Discourse: A Critical Analysis of Linguistic and Cultural Encoding in Selected Igbo Tales." African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research 7, no. 3 (2024): 297–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/ajsshr-jaga5e56.

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That society is dynamic entails that no society is static; as days progress, new things come to replace old ones. With the coming of the Europeans in parts of African society, traditionalism gave way to modernism. To an extent, the society being dynamic seems detrimental to the Igbo tradition as modern civilization tends to make the Igbo tradition and culture extinct. With our people developing more penchant for the Western tradition, things keep falling apart in the contemporary Igbo society as the Igbo tradition and culture seem highly neglected. This paper therefore delves into the intricat

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Patrick, Charles Alex. "HUMOUR AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF AFRICAN FOLKTALES." LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching 27, no. 2 (2024): 1019–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/llt.v27i2.9472.

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African folktales manifest intricate and peculiar linguistic features, making their performance remarkable and invigorating. This paper explores the dual impact of humour and linguistic features on the written and performative nature of African folktales, arguing that the linguistic features of African folktales are imbued with humour which enlivens their oral performances. The data utilised in this study were harvested from folktales across Africa, including some collected during oral performances in Ipe-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria. Ten folktales were purposely selected from written sources

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Mckenzie, John. "â€˜NAKED IN THE OPEN AIR â€¦ THE WAVES â€¦ INVITED HERâ€™: ECOCRITICISM AND THE PICTURE BOOK." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 32, no. 2 (2016): 74–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/1691.

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It is an inconvenient truth that the state of the planet is likely to figure powerfully in both the real and the imagined lives of children, in whatever nation state children and young people are situated. Physical space as a literary trope, representing both outer and inner landscapes, has a long tradition in the telling of stories where the child listener/ reader/viewer is often positioned to see nature in terms of binary oppositions. From the survival story â€“ where the island is represented as personally malevolent â€“ to the country garden â€“ where nature is represented as a benign heal

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Schevb, Harold. "African Folktales." African Arts 18, no. 2 (1985): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336185.

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Maluleke, Vukosi Linah, Cornelia Smith, and Makgatho. "Folktales and the Oral Tradition in the Grade 9 EFAL Classroom." JET (Journal of English Teaching) 9, no. 3 (2023): 391–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.33541/jet.v9i3.4673.

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Folktales stem from the oral tradition passed down over generations by the people who recounted them. These tales form part of the prescribed syllabus, CAPS, in South Africa specifically for Grade 9 English First Additional (EFAL) learners. The study explored the perceptions of folktales by 9 learners and 9 teachers. It was a qualitative study using purposeful sampling and an interpretivist research paradigm. The theoretical lens employed was Vygotsky’s constructivist theory. The study found that there are conflicting views on learning African folktales in English. The former Apartheid system’

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Balogun, Olusola Kayode, and Adefolaji Eben Adeseke. "Advancing Indigenous African Values and Ethos for Film Directing and Production in Nollywood." International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities 26, no. 1 (2023): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.6.

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For several decades, African film narratives and directorial approaches have been tailored towards the western modes of theoretical postulations and production patterns. This is due to the widely accepted conventional training modules and curricula which were and still are based on European ideas, values and styles, with little or no regard for the unique African theatrical and performative styles. This study, therefore, aims at investigating certain indigenous cultural and historical activities such as folktales, myths and legends that can provide raw materials for film and video drama in Afr

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Haring, Lee. "Eastward to the Islands: The Other Diaspora." Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 469 (2005): 290–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137915.

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Abstract The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Seychelles, named the "Mascareignes" after a Portuguese explorer, are products of an eastward African diaspora, almost invisible in the West except to a few historians. Empty of human population until European exploitation settled them with afew colonists and thousands of slaves from East Africa and Madagascar, their multicultural history demonstrates the astonishing durability of African and Malagasy cultures. Folktales provide the finest window into that history and its values. Through that window, creolization is revealed in its a

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Gebregeorgis, Mehari Yimulaw. "Gender Role Perceptions in Selected South-African Folktales." Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 85 (April 2022): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/fejf2022.85.gebregeorgis.

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The objective of the study was to unpack gender role perceptions in selected South-African folktales. To this end, 65 purposefully selected folktales which reinforce character roles were analysed and interpreted, using narrative analysis. With the exception of a few that are used as instruments of contestation, the studied South-African folktales mainly serve as a tool to confirm the entrenched hegemonic philosophy of patriarchal communal life in terms of marriage, work, character traits, and authority. The rebelliousness of female characters against the patriarchal system in some folktales in

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Currie, Hannah. "Rural African Women." Groundings Undergraduate 4 (April 1, 2011): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.36399/groundingsug.4.245.

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The history of rural African women has been beset by problems. Traditional academic disciplines, in aspiring to a standard of objectivity and validity, have tended towards broad generalisations which obliterate the experiences of marginalised groups. Scholarly obsession with documentary evidence has inadvertently silenced voices in the non-literate world. Meanwhile the socially ingrained proverbs and folktales of Africa contain flawed representations of women. This situation has given rise to warped perceptions which not only conceal the truth but contribute to the subjugation of women. Oral h

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Dewulf, Jeroen. "Flying Back to Africa or Flying to Heaven? Competing Visions of Afterlife in the Lowcountry and Caribbean Slave Societies." Religion and American Culture 31, no. 2 (2021): 222–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rac.2021.12.

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ABSTRACTThis article presents a new interpretation of the famous folktale about enslaved Africans flying home, including the legend that only those who refrained from eating salt could fly back to Africa. It rejects claims that the tale is rooted in Igbo culture and relates to suicide as a desperate attempt to escape from slavery. Rather, an analysis of historical documents in combination with ethnographic and linguistic research makes it possible to trace the tale back to West-Central Africa. It relates objections to eating salt to the Kikongo expression curia mungua (to eat salt), meaning ba

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Finnegan, Ruth, and William Bascom. "African Folktales in the New World." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1, no. 1 (1995): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3034246.

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Glazier, Stephen D., and William Bascom. "African Folktales in the New World." Journal of Religion in Africa 25, no. 2 (1995): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1581280.

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McCall, Daniel F., and William Bascom. "African Folktales in the New World." International Journal of African Historical Studies 26, no. 3 (1993): 689. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220510.

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Tiffin, Jessica. "Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (review)." Marvels & Tales 19, no. 2 (2005): 303–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mat.2005.0039.

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Mohamed Shaari, Zuriati, Noor Hidawati Mohamed Amin, and Abdul Halim Husin. "Verification of Animal Characters in Drawing for Associating Digital Native and Malay Folklore/Folktale." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 7, SI9 (2022): 497–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7isi9.4299.

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Folklore refers to the traditional beliefs and stories of a community. On the other hand, 'Folktale' refers to stories that have been passed down from the ancestors of a particular group to the younger generation. However, this folklore/folktale is increasingly forgotten by today's generation. This study is to associate digital native and Malay Folklore/folktale through animal characters in a drawing. The development of drawings referred to Graham Wallas's Model of the Four Stages of Creativity. Drawings will be displayed in the online and physical exhibitions. Keywords: Folktale, Folklo

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Jenkins, E. R. "English South African children’s literature and the environment." Literator 25, no. 3 (2004): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.266.

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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the chang

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Lilian, Okoro. "DEVELOPING AFRICAN INDIGENOUS CARTOON SERIES FOR PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONS." International Journal of Integrative Humanism 11, no. 1 (2019): 12–21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3252051.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> It has been observed that very few cartoon series based on African culture are available for African children. Also there are even fewer cartoon series embedded with significant recurrent imagery drawn from the Africa milieu created strictly for instructive purposes. In contrast with this scenario, a vast number of western cartoon series flood the African media network and play key roles in modelling African children towards the ideals of the west. While it has been observed that children subscribe more to cartoon programmes, they also follow and emulate the presentat

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Sone, Enongene Mirabeau. "The Folktale and Social Values in Traditional Africa." Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 4, no. 2 (2018): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2018.1485314.

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Cochrane, Thandeka. "The politics of literature in Malawi: Filemon Chirwa, Nthanu za Chitonga and the battle for the Atonga tribal council." Africa 92, no. 5 (2022): 819–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000197202200064x.

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AbstractIn 1932, as Nyasaland (present-day Malawi) was heading to indirect rule, a small vocal community in the north of the country resisted the colonial government’s attempts to assign them a Native Authority. Instead, they proposed their own form of government: a council of thirty-two mafumu (chiefs) who would make decisions on an egalitarian basis, the Atonga tribal council. The champion of this alternative form of governance was a Tonga intellectual named Filemon K. Chirwa. At the height of the political manoeuvring to institute the Atonga tribal council, Filemon wrote and published his o

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Irving, Evelyn Uhrhan, Bernard Binlin Dadié, Karen C. Hatch, Bernard Binlin Dadié, and Jains A. Mayes. "The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales." World Literature Today 61, no. 3 (1987): 481. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40143483.

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Ntamwana, Simon. "MEN’S SEXUAL TRAUMA RESISTANCE IN BLACK AMERICAN FOLKLORE: A POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM OF NEGRO “WOMAN TALES”." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 6, no. 2 (2023): 276–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v6i2.5702.

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The purpose of this paper “Men’s Sexual Trauma Resistance in Black American Folklore: A Postcolonial Criticism of Negro “Woman Tales” from the Gulf States” was to discuss the reflection of postcolonial sexual trauma and resistance to it through storytelling among African Americans in the Gulf States. The study was concerned with 3 folktales classified under the cycle “Woman Tales”. The folktales were selected from the collection made by Zora Neale Hurston in the southern states of Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana from 1927 to 1930 and compiled in the book Every Tongue Got to confess: Negro Folk

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