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James, Deborah, Graham Furniss, and Liz Gunner. "Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3, no. 3 (September 1997): 619. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3034791.

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Hutchison, John P., Graham Furniss, and Liz Gunner. "Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature." International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, no. 2 (1998): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221118.

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Okpewho, Isidore. "The Study of African Oral Literature." Présence Africaine 139, no. 3 (1986): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/presa.139.0020.

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BRYCE, J. "Power Marginality and African Oral Literature." African Affairs 96, no. 383 (April 1, 1997): 284–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007833.

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Eguchi, Paul K. "An Outline of African Oral Literature." Journal of African Studies 1985, no. 27 (1985): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.11619/africa1964.1985.27_71.

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Owomoyela, Oyekan, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Background, Character, and Continuity." African Studies Review 37, no. 3 (December 1994): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524930.

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FINNEGAN, RUTH. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, character, and continuity." African Affairs 94, no. 374 (January 1995): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098782.

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Smith, Pamela J. Olubunmi, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity." World Literature Today 67, no. 3 (1993): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40149507.

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Belcher, Stephen, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity." Journal of American Folklore 106, no. 422 (1993): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/541919.

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Haring. "Translating African Oral Literature in Global Contexts." Global South 5, no. 2 (2011): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.5.2.7.

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Julien, Eileen, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity." International Journal of African Historical Studies 27, no. 1 (1994): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221003.

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Lorentzon, Leif. "Is African Oral LiteratureLiterature?" Research in African Literatures 38, no. 3 (September 2007): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2007.38.3.1.

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Riva, Silvia. "Congolese Literature as Part of Planetary Literature." Journal of World Literature 6, no. 2 (June 22, 2021): 216–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00602006.

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Abstract Historically and economically, the Congo has been considered one of the most internationalized states of Africa. The idea that African cultural plurality was minimized during the colonial era has to be reconsidered because textual negotiations and exchanges (cosmopolitan and vernacular, written and oral) have been frequent during and after colonization, mostly in urban areas. Through multilingual examples, this paper aims to question the co-construction of linguistic and literary pluralism in Congo and to advocate for the necessity of a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach, to understand the common life of African vernacular and cosmopolitan languages. I show that world literature models based on Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of negotiation between center and periphery thus have to be replaced by a concept of multilingual global history. Finally, I propose the notion of “planetary literature” as a new way of understanding the interconnection between literatures taking care of the world.

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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 (December 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 of traditional Africa and her diverse heritage.

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Ellison, Mary, and Gayl Jones. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3507954.

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Carrabino, Victor, Eldred Durosimi Jones, Eustace Palmer, and Marjorie Jones. "Oral & Written Poetry in African Literature Today." World Literature Today 64, no. 3 (1990): 512. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40146800.

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Fabi, M. Giulia, and Gayl Jones. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." American Literature 65, no. 2 (June 1993): 391. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927378.

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Scheub, Harold. "A Review of African Oral Traditions and Literature." African Studies Review 28, no. 2/3 (June 1985): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524603.

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Dubey, Madhu. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." Studies in American Fiction 21, no. 1 (1993): 120–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1993.0026.

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Kulii, Elon A., and Gayl Jones. "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature." Journal of American Folklore 106, no. 419 (1993): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/541352.

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Bula, Andrew. "The African Verbal Genre as Literature and Performance." Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 1, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v1i2.7.

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There is a view that the African verbal genre is not literature and its nature does not include bodily performance; it belongs to sociology and not literature because literature is the art that is written while African verbal genre is presented orally. Thus, the present study aims to demonstrate that, despite its oral nature, the African verbal genre is both literature and oral performance that includes bodily performance and that its literary and performative constituents synergize to achieve the purpose of the genre.

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Schellnack-Kelly, Isabel. "The Role of Storytelling in Preserving Africaâ€™s Spirit by Conserving the Continentâ€™s Fauna and Flora." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 35, no. 2 (February 7, 2018): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2520-5293/1544.

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The importance of oral tradition, indigenous stories and the knowledge and wisdom contained therein are fundamental to undertake as many initiatives as possible to protect the continentâ€™s fauna and flora from extinction. This article is a phenomenological qualitative study. It is based on an extensive content analysis of literature, oral histories, photographs and audiovisual footage concerning narratives and folklore relating to Africaâ€™s fauna and flora. For the purposes of this article, the content sample focuses specifically on narratives related to the African elephant, black rhinoceros and the lion. The article also relates to experiences of individuals in Kenya and South Africa involved in conservation efforts to protect Africaâ€™s wildlife. The geographical proximity of the collected narratives stretches from the Timbavati, in South Africa, through to Northern Kenya. This article illustrates how indigenous knowledge and oral histories have influenced Western mythology and thinking. The article also explores the significance attached by scholars to the continentâ€™s oral histories and indigenous knowledge and links knowledge to Jung, astrology and ancient symbolism. The discussion emphasises the importance of good conservation strategies for all areas of Africa to protect the fauna and flora as well as Africaâ€™s oral histories and indigenous knowledge.

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Sone, Enongene. "African Oral Literature and the Humanities: Challenges and Prospects." Humanities 7, no. 2 (March 22, 2018): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7020030.

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Diawara, Manthia. "Oral Literature and African Film :·Narratology in « Wend Kuuni »." Présence Africaine 142, no. 2 (1987): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/presa.142.0036.

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Bala, Mustapha Ruma. "African Literature and Orality: A Reading of Ngugi wa Thiango’s Wizard of the Crow (2007)." Journal of English Language and Literature 3, no. 1 (February 28, 2015): 196–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v3i1.39.

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This paper explores the relationship between orality and written literature in Africa. The paper interrogates the transformation of oral narrative into written texts and vice-versa. The paper specifically focuses on how Ngugi appropriates oral-narrative techniques commonly employed in African traditional societies in shaping the narration of events in this monumental novel. In this regard, the paper focuses on how the oral tradition in Africa influences the plot structure of Wizard of the Crow. The paper also looks at how Ngugi uses multiple narrators some of whom are observers as well as participants in unfolding the drama in the novel. These narrators, some of whom are categorically defined and the not well-defined, recount and render events happening in the novel orally in the presence of a live audience and in the process also embellish the story as they deem fit thereby rendering different versions of the same event The paper concludes with the observation that in spite of its being presented in the written medium of the novel, Wizard of the Crow indeed has generic resemblance to an extended oral narrative.

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Cloete, M. J. "Bury my bones but keep my words: The interface between oral tradition and contemporary African writing." Literator 25, no. 2 (July 31, 2004): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i2.254.

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The contention in this article is that African oral tradition should be reexamined in view of its perceived new importance in the work of African novelists. This article investigates the nature and definition of oral tradition, as well as the use of oral tradition as a cultural tool. The increasing inclusion of oral literature as part of the African literature component within university and school curricula is discussed. Finally, the pronounced role of oral tradition in fiction is examined, using as exemplars some seminal works of Bessie Head (1978, 1990 and 1995 ) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1965, 1977, 1981, and 1982).

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Matiza, Vimbai. "African Traditional Art Forms, Democratic Governance and Economic Growth in Zimbabwe." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 27, no. 2 (February 8, 2018): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/3184.

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The article seeks to explore the role of African oral traditional art forms and governance in Zimbabwe for economic development. African philosophies, embedded in oral literature were part and parcel of the people’s life. Everybody participated in the activities that affected them in society. Thus African peoples used oral literature, which is dependent on the performer who formulates it on a specific occasion—this forms part of issues of governance. Some problems, which people, and Zimbabweans in particular are facing, emanate from colonialism, and have led them to believe that they had no culture or anything to shape their way of thinking. These problems have always been there, and people had a way of circumventing them through the philosophies that were embedded in their oral art forms. It is against this backdrop that the researcher seeks to explore the place of oral art forms; which include proverbs, riddles, folktales among others; and governance as vehicles to drive economic growth in Zimbabwe. The article is based on a conceptual method of study, where examples of oral art forms used have been taken from various speech communities in Africa. The researcher’s arguments are guided by the Afrocentricapproach and the discussion establishes that issues of democracy and governance were part and parcel of indigenous people’s way of doing things, in a bid to achieve economic growth in their societies.

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Coswosk, Jânderson Albino. "Educational Practices on Ethnic-racial Relations and the English Language Teaching through Image and Literature in an EFL Classroom." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (April 20, 2020): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v3i1.4800.

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The article analyzes the unfoldings of the teaching project Introducing Literatures in English, held in 2018 at the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo (IFES), based in Alegre-ES, Brazil. The project aimed at promoting the improvement of reading, writing and speaking skills of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, departing from African Literature in English and photography, so that they had the opportunity to improve their language skills while developing a broader discussion on Africa’s ethnic-cultural and linguistic diversity, building a viewpoint about the African continent less tied to colonialism, slavery, apartheid and victimization.For reading and written analyses, the students took into consideration the photo-book Another Africa (1998), with photographs by Robert Lyons and poems by Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). Based on the poems and photographs brought to light in Another Africa, I analyzed 1) the students’ multimodal reading process, by connecting images generated by poems and photographs and written and oral texts the students produced around them; 2) the students’ reception of the poems, considering Achebe’s constant use of code-switching and 3) the construction of new viewpoints around Africa elaborated by the students, bearing in mind the importance of the role of language, memory and history, oral and literary traditions when it comes to African writers and a new perspective concerning the colonial legacy and its impact on English language.

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Gunner, Elizabeth. "A dying tradition? African oral literature in a contemporary context1." Social Dynamics 12, no. 2 (December 1986): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533958608458404.

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Kabuta, Ngo Semzara. "De Eigennaam en het “Zelflofdicht” in de Afrikaanse Orale Literatuur." Afrika Focus 17, no. 1-2 (February 11, 2001): 15–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-0170102003.

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The proper name and “selfpraise poetry” in the African oral literature There is a particular poetic genre in African oral literature, based on selfpraise. Selfpraise poetry is built on proper names and formulas, with the metaphor and hyperbole as central style figures. In this article, we situate the proper name inside African culture and show the link between the proper name and selfpraise. Furthermore, we try to grasp the meaning of praising oneself in African culture. The study relies essentially on Cilubà and Kilubà data, but references are made to other languages, in order to show that the genre is not limited to the Lubà oral literature. The first part concentrates on name giving and its meaning. The second part is an analysis of selfpraise poetry, with examples in different languages.

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Mabana, Kahiudi Claver. "Léopold S. Senghor, Birago Diop et Chinua Achebe: Maîtres de la parole." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001031.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Birago Diop (1906–1989) and Chinua Achebe (1931–) were among the first African intellectuals to make their fellow Africans aware of the riches of their oral literature and proud of their cultural treasures. The two francophone writers from Senegal were major figures of the Négritude movement, while the anglophone Nigerian became famous with , the best-known African novel of the last century. The aim of this essay is to show the importance of the impact of African orature in the creative writing of African authors despite the ostensible differences in their colonial linguistic backgrounds.

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MacKenzie, C. "The skaz narrative mode in short stories by W. C. Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Perceval Gibbon and Herman Charles Bosman." Literator 14, no. 3 (May 3, 1993): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v14i3.708.

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While an overwhelming amount of cultural activity worldwide has been (and is being) conducted in societies which had (or have) very little or no knowledge at all of writing, and which can therefore be described as predominantly ‘oral’ cultures, very little attempt has been made in the field of South African literature to examine how oral modes of cultural exchange influence and interpenetrate the more recent written (literary) modes. South Africa is a region which has several rich oral traditions and it is therefore important to explore how aspects of these traditions are incorporated into (written) literature. This paper looks at the use of the fictional narrator and skaz (the Russian Formalist term meaning 'speech') in some South African short stories by Scully, FitzPatrick, Gibbon and Bosman. It is argued that whereas Scully and FitzPatrick produce only partially successful narratives in the skaz style, Gibbon and Bosman introduce greater artistic and ideological complexity to the form.

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Alex, Patrick Charles. "LINGUISTIC REVITALISATION AND THE DRAMA IN AFRICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES." UC Journal: ELT, Linguistics and Literature Journal 3, no. 2 (December 5, 2022): 156–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/uc.v3i2.5469.

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This paper explores the drama written in indigenous African languages across many countries in Africa. It highlights the intellectual snobbery suffered by drama written in indigenous languages, probing the reasons behind the critical marginalization. It equally probes the elemental compositions of drama written in indigenous languages, investigating how oral elements revitalize and fertilize the dramatic works. The theoretical framework for this study was anchored on Ethnodramatics, a theory of indigenous drama projected by Affiah and Osuagwu while the inspirations which substantiate indigenous African languages as viable and effective linguistic mediums for dramatic creativity are derived from Ngugi wa Thiongo’s theoretical postulation on the language of African theatre in Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986). The paper reveals that traditional African drama in indigenous languages creatively utilizes oral resources and elements such as proverbs, riddles, mime, music, songs, dance, and other folk arts in ways that embellish and relive their drama. The paper concludes that by writing in indigenous languages, playwrights expand the resources and frontiers of African indigenous languages, a situation that nurtures and preserves them.

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Visser, Marianna W., and Phillip Hayab John. "African Oral Poetry and Performance: a study of the spoken verse." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 27, no. 2 (February 8, 2018): 28–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/2475.

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The article defines poetry and situates the genre within an African context, with justifications on why it relies on a performative enactment for the realisation of its full import. The focus is on the fact that much of what is characteristically categorised as “poetry” in African oral literature is intended to be performed in a musical setting, where the melodic and vocal components are mutually dependent on representation. The leading concern, therefore, is the observation that poetry in a traditional African society derives its classification from the perception of the society for which it is performed, and need not be limited to the Western construal or perspective. The article employs poetic verses from the Ham and Hausa of Nigeria, the Ewe and Akan of Ghana, the Ocoli of Uganda, and the Zulu of Southern Africa to exemplify the position that an enactment reveals the core of the communicative act in an orally-recited poetry.

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Burke, Jordan. "Lawino in the Library: Anthropology, Modernity, and the Profession of African Literature." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 137, no. 3 (May 2022): 407–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812922000335.

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AbstractThis essay examines the shadowy brokerage of literary and anthropological value during the era of decolonization and its connection to the institutionalizing of African literature. Drawing on original archival research, it recovers the conversation between the Ugandan poet Okot p'Bitek's major long poem Song of Lawino and the Oxford Library of African Literature, a series of oral-literature anthologies edited by Okot's and Talal Asad's advisers at the Oxford Institute of Social Anthropology. Instead of reciprocating the series's temporal and hierarchical assumptions, which appropriate late modernist literary criticism's nostalgic veneration of the British past, Song of Lawino reconfigures the protocols for the textual production of oral poetry by revising social anthropology's theories of time and matter. If accounts of the departmentalization of African literature portray it as a transfer of colonial paradigms to postcolonial contexts, this interfield account of the making of Song of Lawino calls for an alternative history.

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Como, Dominique H., Lucía I. Floríndez-Cox, Leah I. Stein Duker, Jose C. Polido, Brandi P. Jones, Mary Lawlor, and Sharon A. Cermak. "Oral Care Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Black/African American Caregivers of Autistic Children and Non-Autistic Children." Children 9, no. 9 (September 19, 2022): 1417. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9091417.

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Oral health is a vital component of overall health. Children from underserved, minoritized populations (i.e., Black/African Americans, autistic children) are at even greater risk for experiencing oral health disparities. This study aims to illuminate the oral health knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Black/African American caregivers of autistic and non-autistic children. Black/African American caregivers of children (4-to-14 years) on the autism spectrum (n = 65) or not on the autism spectrum (n = 60), participated in a survey, with input from literature reviews, interviews, previous research, and reviews by experts. Caregivers demonstrated basic knowledge of oral health with significantly lower scores for caregivers of autistic children. Caregivers care about oral health and would like to increase their knowledge. Significant differences in oral care practices were found between the autistic and non-autistic groups. Caregivers reported they can access dental services with relative ease, including finding their child a dentist, scheduling a dental appointment, and accessing transportation (personal or public) to attend the visit. Black/African American caregivers of autistic children and children without autism seem to have foundational knowledge about oral health and basic practices; however, they are interested in learning more. Therefore, tailored oral health education programs may help mitigate oral health disparities for Black/African American families.

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Ohwonohwo, Titus Rukaye. "Technical Devices in African Oral Literature: The case of Agbarha-Otor Dirges." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 4, no. 4 (2019): 1036–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.4417.

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Kiguru, Doseline. "Genre versus Prize: The Short Story Form and African Oral Traditions." English in Africa 47, no. 3 (February 10, 2021): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v47i3.3s.

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In “The Short Story in Africa,” Nadine Gordimer writes that the genre is more malleable and open to experimentation with style, language and form than the novel, which means that it is more easily accommodated within a variety of media spaces. Gordimer adds that the short story is “a fragmented and restless form, a matter of hit or miss, and it is perhaps for this reason that it suits modern consciousness” (170–71). Taking its cue from Gordimer’s remarks, this article attempts to examine the genre of the short story through the lens of the literary prize industry in Africa. In most parts of the continent the development of the short story, like that of the novel and other genres, has been slow, facing a number of challenges such as a historically impoverished publishing industry. The rise in popularity of the local and global literary prize for the short story has however played a significant role in the promotion of the genre and literature generally on the continent. The article examines the short story’s increased presence in the digital space and interrogates the general assumption on the part of many of the prize-awarding bodies that the short story can be linked to African oral traditions. The aim of the article is to explore the relationship between the genre and the rising popularity of the literary prize on the continent, focusing on the various ways in which the prize is (re)shaping the contemporary African short story. Keywords: Orality, literary prize, publishing, exoticism, literary fracture, disconnectivity

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Wieder, Alan. "A Mother and Her Daughters: Jewish Teachers and the Fight against Apartheid." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 109, no. 5 (May 2007): 1235–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810710900502.

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Background Before 1999, there was little research on teachers and apartheid aside from some biographical sketches. “A Mother and Her Daughters” is part of an ongoing oral history project of teachers who fought apartheid. It is contextualized through the literature on Jews and apartheid in South Africa and joins the growing literature on teachers in the country. Purpose: The article describes and analyzes the lives of three Jewish women, a mother and two of her daughters, who as teachers challenged the apartheid regime in their communities and in their schools. The elder teacher taught in a Jewish day school and brought the issues of apartheid to Jewish studies, and her daughters taught in black schools during the struggle years. The lives of the three women portrayed are analyzed within the context of the political divide among Jewish South Africans during apartheid. Setting and Participants “A Mother and Her Daughters” is part of an oral history project in South Africa with over 200 teachers from each of the apartheid government designated ethnic groups: Africans, coloureds, Indians, and whites. Research Design I have spent the last six years working on an oral history project with teachers who fought apartheid. The first people that I interviewed were referred to me by university colleagues in South Africa. As the project continued, I spoke to teachers who often provided me with lists of other teachers. The methodological process is what ethnographers define as network sampling, or snowball sampling. As I have argued elsewhere, and with a sensitivity to issues of memory, culture, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and power and their relationship to oral history, I view my work as testimony as oral history. While most oral historians conduct research by identifying informants and conducting interviews, testimony as oral history recognizes that individuals need to speak—to testify and provide witness to their lives. Conclusions The women portrayed in the article joined many other South Africans on the ground to fight the apartheid regime. The lives of the Silbert women are important because they went against the norm of their own Jewish community, and white South Africa, to work for the end of apartheid and for a democratic South Africa. They went against the grain of most South African teachers and represent what scholar and politico I. B. Tabata called “teachers with the fighting spirit.” Marlene, Beth, and Patti Silbert combined pedagogy and politics to fight apartheid. Their stories are significant because with other “teachers with the fighting spirit,” they were part of derailing apartheid and facilitating the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994. In addition, individually and collectively, the stories of the Silbert women offer possibilities of education for democracy—in South Africa and throughout the world.

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Miletich, John S., and Jeff Opland. "Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition." Comparative Literature 38, no. 4 (1986): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1770411.

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Abrahams, Roger D., and Jeff Opland. "Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition." Poetics Today 6, no. 3 (1985): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1771916.

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Hodge, James L. "Prototypical Male and Female in Central African Oral Tradition." Fabula 39, no. 1-2 (January 1998): 90–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabl.1998.39.1-2.90.

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Vajić, Nataša. "The Trickster’s Transformation – from Africa to America." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 10, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v10i1.p133-137.

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One of the most favorite characters in many African myths and folk tales is definitely a trickster. As a part of the African cultural heritage, the trickster has an important place in the cultures of many African nations. He is an entertainer, teacher, judge and a sage. Many comic aspects of life are brought together through the trickster, as well as serious social processes. He rewards and punishes. He is a deity and an ordinary man, if not an animal. During the Middle Passage Era he goes along with his suffering people to the New World. New circumstances require him to change and assume new forms. He has to be a rebel and a protector of his people due to slavery and violation of human rights. So, from comical spider and monkey back in Africa, we now have new characters such as Railroad Bill, Brother John, Br’er Rabbit and many hoodoo doctors. African oral tradition is transformed and becomes the basis for African-American literature.

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Dieng, A., AD Faye, MM Ndiaye, G. Diop, A. Bouazé, and M. Diouf. "Factors associated with oral cavity cancers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Summary of the literature." African Journal of Oncology 1, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.54266/ajo.1.2.34.meun5028.

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INTRODUCTION: Oral cavity cancers are now a public health problem according to WHO epidemiological data. There are several risk factors or factors associated with cancers of the oral cavity but they vary according to geographic regions. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with cancers of the oral cavity in Sub-Saharan African populations through a systematic literature review. METHODOLOGY: Using the data available for the period from January 1980 to December 2019, a synthesis of the literature was carried out. The literature localization strategy included an electronic search of the MEDLINE, EMBASE and GOOGLE SCHOLAR databases from 1980 to 2019 and a manual search of the list of references of articles identified by snowballing. The data were extracted independently by two researchers on an Excel© spreadsheet. Parameters collected from each study were author, country, type of study, period of study, size, age, gender, and factors studied. RESULTS: Out of 1,318 articles found, 24 were selected. The data contained 17,290 patients including 8,229 men, i.e. a male / female sex-ratio of 0.91. Factors studied were tobacco, alcohol, diet, infection, genetics and social factors. CONCLUSION: The results reported showed that several factors are associated with the occurrence of oral cavity cancers in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is a need to conduct further studies with more structured methodologies for more convincing results.

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Mahesh Chandra Tiwari. "Magic Realism in African Literature: A Study on Selected Works of Ben Okri and Nadine Gordimer." Creative Launcher 6, no. 4 (October 30, 2021): 148–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.4.24.

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This article examines the evolution of magical realism as a narrative style used by African writers throughout the transition period, and how it became increasingly suited to African literary sensibilities at the time. At the same time, magical realism relies heavily on African oral traditions, serving as a site of convergence for black and white writing under apartheid, as well as exemplifying the synthesis of Eurocentric Western logic and African tradition. This article discusses the possible origins of the proliferation of African texts embracing this narrative mode in the immediate aftermath of apartheid's demise, as well as the possible reasons for the gradual abandonment of magical realist narrative strategy in the post-millennial era, while discussing magic realism in relation to Ben Okri's and Nadine Gordimer's post-apartheid novels. As a consequence of the short cohabitation of the two literary forms in African literary history, African magical realism works will be located at the intersection of celebration and disillusionment literature.

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Como, Dominique, Leah Stein Duker, José Polido, and Sharon Cermak. "The Persistence of Oral Health Disparities for African American Children: A Scoping Review." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 5 (February 27, 2019): 710. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050710.

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Oral health is an important yet often neglected component of overall health, linked to heart disease, stroke, and diabetic complications. Disparities exist for many groups, including racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans. The purpose of this study was to examine the potential factors that perpetuate oral health care disparities in African American children in the United States. A systematic search of three literature databases produced 795 articles; 23 articles were included in the final review. Articles were analyzed using a template coding approach based on the social ecological model. The review identified structural, sociocultural, and familial factors that impact the ability of African Americans to utilize oral care services, highlighting the importance of the parent/caregiver role and the patient–provider relationship; policy-level processes that impact access to quality care; the value of autonomy in treatment and prevention options; and the impact of sociocultural factors on food choices (e.g., food deserts, gestures of affection). In conclusion, oral health care remains an underutilized service by African American children, despite increasing access to oral care secondary to improvements in insurance coverage and community-based programs.

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Riach, Graham K. "“Concrete fragments”: An interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (June 4, 2018): 111–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418777021.

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South Africa has a long and rich tradition of short story writing, stretching from the early oral-style tale (MacKenzie, 1999), through the writing of the “fabulous fifties” (Driver, 2012; R. Gaylard, 2008), to the most recent post-apartheid texts. In this interview, Henrietta Rose-Innes describes her practice as a short story writer, noting how it differs from that of writing novels or poetry. For Rose-Innes, the short story offers a way to capture her view of the world; that is, in sudden, intense moments, rather than in wholly narrative terms. Combining a number of short stories into a collection, Rose-Innes suggests, can offer some perspective on the plurality of contemporary South African life. Over the course of the interview, she discusses her exploration of conventional gender categories, her unconscious use of Gothic tropes, and the possibilities for political writing in contemporary South Africa. Throughout, there is a concern for how her works negotiate questions of space and place, particularly in the context of South African writing.

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Tolulase Abosede Yemitan, Tolulope Bolanle Esan, Ummukhaya Titilope Adebayo, and Oluwafolakemi Adebusola Egunjobi. "Bimaxillary protrusion: A literature review." International Journal of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Archive 3, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 141–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.53771/ijbpsa.2022.3.2.0067.

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Introduction: Bimaxillary protrusion is an occlusal feature characterized by protrusive and proclined upper and lower incisors, associated with increased flattening of the lips and greater than average degree of lip prominence. It is considered one of the malocclusion types that stimulate patients to seek orthodontic treatment to improve facial symmetry. Objective: To conduct a literature review on bimaxillary protrusion with respect to its aetiological factors, morphological features, prevalence, diagnosis, and management. Methods: Relevant sources of information were searched using electronic databases including Google Scholar, PubMed, Elsevier, ResearchGate, and Web of Science. A total of 28 articles were considered and included in the literature review. Results: It was observed that bimaxillary proclination is prevalent among Asian, African, African-American, and the Caribbean regions, but less prevalent in white Caucasian populations. Treatment of patients with bimaxillary protrusion by extraction of four premolars was found to be successful in decreasing the dental and soft tissue procumbency seen in patients with bimaxillary protrusion. Conclusion: Successful treatment of patients with bimaxillary protrusion starts with a good understanding of the patient’s concerns and sometimes, a close collaboration between an orthodontist and an oral surgeon.

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Perez, Carmela, and Helen Tager-Flusberg. "Clinicians' Perceptions of Children's Oral Personal Narratives." Narrative Inquiry 8, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 181–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.8.1.08per.

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A diverse group of child clinicians (n — 39) rated paragraph-long transcriptions of two Euro-American, two African-American, and two Latino children's oral narratives. Clinicians were asked to rate the logic, cohesion, and comprehensibility of the stories using 6-point scales. They were also asked to give a rough estimate of the children's IQ, to comment on the existence of emotional/behavioral and/or learning/language problems, and to assign possible diagnoses. The results indicated clinicians' ratings of the Latino narratives were significantly different from ratings of the Euro-American and African-American narratives, as confirmed by Scheffe post hoc analysis. Diagnoses revealed a distribution by ethnicity of children. Euro-Americans received 21 diagnoses, African-Americans received 33 diagnoses, and Latinos received 53 diagnoses. Further, clinicians' ethnicity and gender did not account for any group differences. The implications of these findings are twofold. First, clinicians seem to be unaware of the differences in Latino children's narrative structure, and seem to be penalizing them for not conforming to the Euro-American structure. Second, it appears that clinicians training and practicing in the U.S. tend to adopt a Euro-American perspective which may desensitize them as to the narrative intricacies of their own culture.

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Leeuw, Lerothodi L., and Jarita Holbrook. "The Role of the IAU Gleaned From Oral Histories of Individuals Involved in Astronomy in South Africa." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 13, S349 (December 2018): 240–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921319000371.

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AbstractThe South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), formerly known as the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, will be 200 years old in 2020. Also, South Africa (SA), formerly a British colony known as the Cape of Good Hope, will celebrate her 100-year anniversary as an International Astronomical Union (IAU) member in 2020, following the IAU centenary in 2019 that this IAU Symposium 349 celebrates. In light of all this, particularly in anticipation of the 200-year anniversary of SAAO in 2020, the SA National Research Foundation (NRF) has developed a Roadmap for the History of Astronomy in South Africa. As part of this we are conducting an oral history of astronomers to complement the historical celebrations of the institutions and science relating to astronomy in SA, supported by the SA NRF. Primarily drawing on literature and setting the scene for this work, here we present a snippet of the on-going oral histories, to glean the role of the IAU in astronomy in South Africa and show the potential of the oral histories to inform and complement written history.

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