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Washington, Michele Y. "Black Memory in Take Your Bags." Feminist Media Histories 11, no. 1 (2025): 80–84. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2025.11.1.80.

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This essay looks at the design and materiality of African masks in the short oral history film Take Your Bags to reflect on how Camille Billops and James Hatch mine them as conveyors of historical memory and instruments of storytelling.

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Dr. Beena Yadav. "African American Folklore in the Novels of Toni Morrison." Research Ambition an International Multidisciplinary e-Journal 9, no. I (2024): 01–06. https://doi.org/10.53724/ambition/v9n1.02.

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This research paper explores the profound influence of African American folklore in the novels of Toni Morrison. By examining her essential novels such as Beloved, Song of Solomon, and Tar Baby, the study investigates how Morrison weaves elements of folklore, including myth, oral traditions, and cultural rituals, into her narratives. The analysis reveals how Morrison employs folklore to enrich her storytelling, develop complex characters, and address themes of identity, memory, and community. Moreover, the research highlights how Morrison’s integration of folklore serves as a powerful tool for

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Azashi Agyo, Azetu. "Literary Narratives and Cultural Identities: A Critical Analysis of Dele A. Sonubi’s the Grand Father’s Mandate." Universal Library of Arts and Humanities 02, no. 01 (2025): 21–28. https://doi.org/10.70315/uloap.ulahu.2025.0201004.

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Stories have always been powerful vessels of culture, memory, and identity, especially in African literature, where oral traditions continue to shape the way people see themselves and their world. Dele A. Sonubi’s novel, The Grandfather’s Mandate, brings this rich tradition to life by exploring the tensions between Yoruba heritage and the pressures of Western influence. At its heart, the novel follows a protagonist caught between two worlds—torn between honoring his grandfather’s dying wish and navigating the realities of modern society. This struggle echoes W.E.B. Du Bois’s idea of “double co

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Knittelfelder, Elisabeth. "The “Ordinary” Cruelty and the Theatre as Witness in Four South African Plays." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 8, no. 1 (2020): 160–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2020-0012.

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AbstractThis essay looks at how four contemporary South African plays use performance to render, address, and acknowledge personal and national trauma. By staging acts of cruelty that happen as “ordinary” experience, as perpetual pain, or as representation of life-in-crisis, these plays not only question and complement the national narrative by telling stories that have not found a stage or a listener before, but they also inform and speak to topical societal issues in South Africa such as that of apathy to violence and the question of complicity. Yael Farber and Lara Foot employ a distinctly

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Saidu, Dr Dauda. "Complexities of the Savannah: A Postcolonial Reading of Insecurity in Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah." International Journal of Environmental Sciences 11, no. 9s (2025): 216–29. https://doi.org/10.64252/wz0m1w71.

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This paper presents a comprehensive postcolonial analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987), focusing on the interplay between political insecurity, failed leadership, and the potential for resistance and renewal in post-independence African societies. Set in the fictional West African nation of Kangan, the novel offers a searing critique of authoritarian governance, systemic corruption, and socio-economic decay. Through a close examination of key characters—Ikem Osodi, Chris Oriko, and Beatrice Okoh—this study explores how Achebe articulates the psychological, structural, and

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Ladeira, Ilda, Nicola J. Bidwell, and Xolile Sigaji. "DIGITAL STORYTELLING DESIGN LEARNING FROM NON-DIGITAL NARRATIVES: TWO CASE STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA." Oral History Journal of South Africa 2, no. 1 (2016): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/1582.

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Digital tools for User Generated Content (UGC) aim to enable people to interact with media in conversational and creative ways that are independent of technology producers or media organisations. In this article we describe two case studies in South Africa that show that UGC is not simply something tied to technology or the internet but emerges in non-digital storytelling. At the District Six Museum in Cape Town, District Six ex-residents are central collaborators in the narratives presented. Ex-residents tell stories in the museum and can write onto inscriptive exhibits, such as a floor map s

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Hofmeyr, Isabel. "Popularizing History: the Case of Gustav Preller." Journal of African History 29, no. 3 (1988): 521–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700030607.

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Gustav Preller (1875–1943), a prolific and popular South African historian, is the man largely responsible for shaping many of the key myths of Afrikaner nationalism. One of these is the concept of the Great Trek, an interpretation of the nineteenth-century movement of Boers into the interior. It is Preller's written and visual version of this social movement that has been the dominant one for the last seven decades. Preller worked with a variety of media including books, newspapers, magazines, drama and film, and always produced works that sold in significant numbers. Yet despite his obvious

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Daouda, Berthe. "Intertextual Threads: Unpacking the Quranic, Biblical, Malinké, And Igbo References in Allah Is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma And Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 08, no. 05 (2025): 3216–22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15469474.

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This article examines the intertextual network in Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé (2000) and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958), concentrating on&ensp;the following sources of intertextuality: Quranic, biblical, Malinké and Igbo. The two novels sketch the complex cultural&ensp;background and historical situation of the two societies with the help of intertextuality. By means of a comparative study, this article explores the complexity of cultural identity in West Africa so directing the intertextual allusions and so moulding the narratives. Using intertextuality t

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Min, Woongki. "A Preliminary Discussion on the Tourism Resource Development of Local Oral Content - Focusing on the Possibility of Applying the Convergent Concepts of Cultural Memory, Oral Culture, and Storytelling." Global Knowledge and Convergence Association 7, no. 2 (2024): 253–84. https://doi.org/10.47636/gkca.2024.7.2.253.

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This study organized the concepts of cultural memory, oral culture, and storytelling for tourism resource development of local oral content, and discussed how these concepts can be integrated and applied to the tourism development process of local communities at a preliminary level. The prototype of local oral content can be a combination of various factual and virtual implementations of cultural memory members of a local community share. Local oral content transmits and preserves collective knowledge through cultural memory, helping establish the cultural identity of humans. Oral content base

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Merolla, Daniela. "Filming African Creation Myths." Religion and the Arts 13, no. 4 (2009): 521–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/107992609x12524941450082.

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AbstractAfrican film directors have made use of mythology and oral storytelling in countless circumstances. These filmmakers have explored the core role that orality plays in ideas of African identity and used mythological themes as allegorical forms in order to address present-day issues while working under dictatorial regimes. They have turned to mythology and oral storytelling because of their determination to convey an African philosophical approach to the world, often to counter the colonial and neo-colonial oversimplification of African cultures seen as bereft of grand narratives on the

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Osei-Tutu, Araba A. Z. "BE-Coming an African Immigrant Family: The African Oral Traditional Storytelling Framework in Practice." Research in the Teaching of English 59, no. 2 (2024): 257–80. https://doi.org/10.58680/rte2024592257.

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African immigrants in the US and across the globe are confronted with issues of language and culture retention, resistance to the loss of the same, and reconstruction of their identities while navigating the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of the host nations. The experiences of one such family are shared through the African Oral Traditional Storytelling Framework developed on the tenets of African oral traditional storytelling techniques, African ideologies, and African worldviews, in which storying is both method and analysis. Through oral stories, poetry, proverbs, and songs, the

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Osei-Tutu, Araba Ayiaba Ziekpor. "Are we still Shona? An AOTS framework approach to navigating immigration-related identity." Legon Journal of the Humanities 33, no. 2 (2022): 80–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v33i2.4.

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Using the African Oral Traditional Storytelling (AOTS) Framework as a culturally centered and responsive storytelling approach to studying with African peoples, this article shares the experiences of a Shona family in the United States of America as they navigate the maintenance and/or retention of their native language and culture as well as transmitting these to their children. Thus, using storytelling as analysis and theory, this article contributes to the discourse on African immigrant identity conceptualization and reconceptualization through a decolonial lens with the aim of encouraging

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Juma, Florence Akumu. "Recapturing the Oral Tradition of Storytelling in Spiritual Conversations with Older Adults: An Afro-Indigenous Approach." Religions 13, no. 6 (2022): 563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13060563.

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The historical value of the oral tradition permeates literature as represented in multiple disciplines, including theology. An aspect of this tradition has proven viable in spiritual conversations with older adults. This paper will discuss the oral tradition’s medium of storytelling and listening to demonstrate its relevance in therapeutic conversations with older adults. Therapeutic storytelling is a distinct intervention prevalent in the African oral tradition This approach is also gaining attention in the contemporary context, blending seamlessly within the narrative approach. Using the qua

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Dada Ojo, Matthias Olufemi, and Abel Olurotimi Ayodele. "Moonlight Tales as Potential Tools for Behavioural Moulding: Cases of Five Selected Moonlight Tales." International Journal of Culture and History 2, no. 2 (2015): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijch.v2i2.8768.

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<p>This article examined the usefulness of moonlight stories or tales as powerful tools in character moulding of the African Children. Five different moonlight tales were sampled and told and the lessons derived highlighted. The article concludes that moonlight storytelling, like other unwritten oral traditions in Africa has faded away, especially in African cities where the parents have no time to sit down their children and mould their characters through story telling.</p>The article recommends that parents should be re-orientated on moonlight storytelling and encouraged to tell

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Ndlovu, Blessing Ntokozo, and Daleen Klop. "Adapting MAIN to isiZulu – some reflections on ecological validity." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 65 (March 24, 2023): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.65.2023.616.

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The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was developed as an instrument to assess the narrative skills of children in multilingual and multicultural contexts. The aim was to compile an instrument that is ecologically valid and culturally neutral so it can be used to assess children’s narrative skills regardless of their linguistic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. While storytelling occurs in all communities and cultures, storytelling customs may differ from culture to culture. For example, African storytelling is based on oral traditions passed on from one generati

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Odueme, Edoama Frances. "Orality, Memory and the New African Diaspora Poetry: Examining Tanure Ojaide’s Poetics." Afrika Focus 32, no. 1 (2019): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-03201010.

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The influence of traditional oral poetic forms on modern African poetry has been significant. Fascinated by oral forms which their respective communities relied on (to inform, teach, and correct erring members) before the advent of literacy, modern African writers borrow from these oral traditions and blend them with the features of the written Western literary forms. This appropriation of the oral poetic techniques by modern African poets continues today, as is clearly evident in the writings of many contemporary African poets, whose scripted works are seen to have drawn much in terms of cont

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Chimdi-Oluoha, Frances Uchenna, and John Ikechukwu Obasikene. "The Pulse of Africanness in African Drama: A Study of Selected Plays of Wole Soyinka and Tewfik Al-Hakim." NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 3, no. 3 (2024): 35–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.59298/nijcrhss/2023/10.3.1101.

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Most African drama is built on the religion, myths and oral culture of the African people, depicting their traditional ways of life passed down through generations. African drama, like other forms of African art, reflects the unique cultural, social and political identity of the African continent and people. This serves as a vehicle to convey the experiences, struggles and triumphs of the African people. Various playwrights have emerged from the African continent and each of these playwrights highlight the uniqueness of Africa through different perspectives in their plays. This paper explores

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Young, John. "Figures of Speech: Oral History as an Agent of Form in Electroacoustic Music." Leonardo Music Journal 28 (December 2018): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01047.

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This article reflects on how the author’s use of oral history recordings as source material in three electroacoustic works suggests ways in which complementary threads of storytelling and recorded memory can be shaped into purposefully directed forms.

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Maysaroh, Maysaroh, Putri Wandini, Irmayana Irmayana, Tegar Tri Wibowo, Farhan Aziz Batubara, and Yusra Dewi Siregar. "The Legend of Meriam Puntung: Oral Tradition Narratives and the Construction of Collective Memory in the Malay Community." Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage 5, no. 3 (2025): 287–94. https://doi.org/10.34007/warisan.v5i3.2589.

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The legend of Meriam Puntung is a significant part of the oral tradition among the Malay community, serving as both a historical narrative and a medium for collective memory construction. This study explores how the legend has been transmitted across generations, its role in shaping historical consciousness, and the extent to which it reflects the identity of the Malay people. Using Jan Vansina’s oral tradition theory and Paul Connerton’s theory of collective memory, this research examines the dynamics of storytelling, the transformation of the narrative over time, and its function in preservi

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Botha, Martin. "Speaking with Earth and Sky: Oral Storytelling in the cinema of Craig and Damon Foster." Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual 3, no. 1 (2016): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v3n1.318.

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The focus of this article is the documentaries of the Foster Brothers and in particular their bold experimentation with form. A brief historical overview of developments in South African documentary filmmaking from the late 1970s till the 21st century contextualises some of the important thematic concerns in the work of Craig and Damon Foster, namely marginal characters, the forced removal of people from their land, as well as the destruction of indigenous cultures. The directors are among very few South African film-makers, who use the African tradition of oral storytelling in their documenta

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Banks-Wallace, JoAnne. "Talk that Talk: Storytelling and Analysis Rooted in African American Oral Tradition." Qualitative Health Research 12, no. 3 (2002): 410–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973202129119892.

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Green, Nadege, and Vanessa Charlot. "Haitian Daughters of Memory: Queer Storytelling in Miami." Journal of Haitian Studies 30, no. 1 (2024): 243–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2024.a959390.

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Abstract: Give Them Their Flowers: An Exhibit of Black LGBTQ+ Miami History is a visual storytelling project to commemorate and preserve the legacy of Black queer Miamians. Curated by Nadege Green, with contributions from photographer Vanessa Charlot, the 2023 exhibit at the Little Haiti Cultural Center brought together portraits, historical records, and an interactive memory space designed to engage visitors in the act of remembrance. Central to the exhibit was a space called "The Repast," which reimagined a Black family's living room after a funeral, inviting visitors to honor and reflect on

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Nadezhda, Chistobaeva. "Makar Konstantinovich Dobrov (1903-1969)." Siberian Research 5, no. 1 (2021): 58–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.33384/26587270.2021.05.01.12e.

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The oral poetry of the Khakass people survived thanks to the masters and keepers of verbal creative work, who carefully kept the works in the memory and skillfully passed them on from generation to generation. In the public environment, the masters of epic were always surrounded by honor and respect. One of the greatest masters of storytelling improvisation is the outstanding khaidzhi-nymakhchi, Makar Konstantinovich Dobrov (1903-1969). The author focuses on the in-depth study of the storyteller’s creative work, features of storytelling mastery.

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Dahlsveen, Heidi. "TO REMEMBER IS A RISK OF FORGETTING – MIMESIS AND CHRONOTOPE IN ARTISTIC PROCESS." Culture Crossroads 22 (September 13, 2023): 172–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.55877/cc.vol22.446.

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A performing storyteller is completely depending on the memory. In the process of making a performance the storyteller must make some choices regarding the memory. This article is based on a musical storytelling performance. Through using the research question: what possibilities does the chronotope and mimesis provide in an artistic working process towards an oral storytelling performance? the author looks at the concept of mimesis as a process and chronotope as a clarifying term. According to Catherine Heinemeyer, a chronotope is applicable because it is not only about the artistic experienc

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Mdlalose, Nomsa. "STORYTELLING AS A METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING AND SKILL." Oral History Journal of South Africa 3, no. 1 (2016): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/181.

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According to historical accounts of old Africa, mathematics got divorced from the heritage arena. It was subsequently perceived incongruent with locally produced knowledge. Zaslavsky (1999) affirms that the manner in which Africa is portrayed in reference to the history of mathematics and the history of numbers, one would conclude that Africans barely knew how to count. Notwithstanding this, storytelling as an aspect of African indigenous knowledge systems and of a genre of oral tradition constitutes various socio-cosmic codes. Narrative being a social phenomenon and rhythm being symbolic to i

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Huber, Loreta, and Evelina Jonaitytė. "Oral Narrative Genres as Communicative Dialogic Resources and their Correlation to African Short Fiction." Respectus Philologicus, no. 37(42) (April 20, 2020): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2020.37.42.45.

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Oral and written storytelling traditions in Africa developed at the same time and influenced each other in many ways. In the twentieth century, the relation between the deeply rooted oral tradition and literary traditions intensified.We aim to reveal literary analysis tools that help to trace ways how oral narrative genres found reflection in African short fiction under analysis. A case study is based on two short stories by women writers, The Rain Came by Grace Ogot and The Lovers by Bessie Head. Images and symbols both, in oral and written traditions in Africa, as well as the way they evolve

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Veraksa, A. N., E. Ochepkova, D. A. Bukhalenkova, and N. Kartushina. "The Relationship of Executive Functions and Speech Production in Senior Preschool Children: Working Memory and Storytelling." Клиническая и специальная психология 8, no. 3 (2019): 56–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2019080304.

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The article presents the data of the study of working memory and features of oral monologue speech in preschool children. 269 children (133 boys and 136 girls) aged 5-6 years (M=5.6 years; Sd=0.48) attending the senior group of kindergarten in Moscow were examined. Features of oral monologue speech development were studied using methods developed in the Russian neuropsychology: tasks for retelling the text and compiling the story of a series of pictures. General neuropsychological parameters, separate lexical and grammatical (morphology and syntax) indicators, macrostructure of the narrative w

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Zeeshan Ali Afsar, Muhammad Ashraf Kaloi, Asma Masood, and Muhammad Aqeel. "Nature, Nation, and Narrative: The Role of the Oral Tradition in Indigenous Cultural Survival through Literatures in English." Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies 3, no. 2 (2025): 3005–31. https://doi.org/10.71281/jals.v3i2.358.

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This research paper is an investigation of the oral tradition as the most important mode of preserving and passing on Indigenous cultural identity, memory and resistance represented in the current Indigenous literatures in English. D Trumpet app This paper is a qualitative literary analysis study that takes a close approach to the narrative strategies of non-linear plot, intergenerational narration, ancestral narration, and land depicted as animate and sacred.The results indicate that oral tradition in these novels is not a simple thematic element, rather, it is structural and cultural base th

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Siad, Asha. "Memories of Mogadishu: Reconstructing post-conflict societies through memory and storytelling." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 47, no. 2 (2020): 233–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.480.

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For many members of the Somali diaspora, the fear of fading memories places a sense of urgency on them to keep these stories of their homeland alive. The great African novelist Ben Okri once said, “to poison a nation, poison its stories”. Stories have the ability to harm or heal societies. Oftentimes, it is simply exclusion from the main narrative that can greatly harm or marginalize a group of people. This paper examines the use of memory in the reconstruction of a once cosmopolitan city by the Somali diaspora around the world through the Memories of Mogadishu initiative. The film by the same

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Okeke, Joseph, and Felix FOkoye. "Is transcendental healing of painful memories possible? a reflection on the role of pastoral counseling and storytelling." International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI) 5, no. 3 (2022): 116–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33750/ijhi.v5i3.158.

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This study examines the contributions of pastoral counseling and storytelling in healing and restoring painful memories. The study applies Louw's life story and Lartey's relationship-oriented models as the theoretical framework. The data were collected through participant observation, document analysis, and the researchers' long years of experience in pastoral ministry and counseling. The finding reveals that storytelling remains a powerful tool for healing wounded memories. The pastoral counseling and storytelling create a safe space for seekers to interact, find the emotional strength to rei

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Tomšič, Maja. "The Passage from the Oral to the Written Tradition in Récits des hommes libres, Hamadi." Acta Neophilologica 51, no. 1-2 (2018): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.51.1-2.91-101.

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The article presents the process of writing and the historical significance of Récits des hommes libres by Hamadi, a collection of Berber traditional tales. Before addressing the characteristics of this collection, we’ll explain a close connection between the Berber literature and its cultural question. The modern Berber literature struggles to preserve its cultural heritage. Furthermore, the Berber tales, as part of a long oral tradition, depend above all on the memory of local storytellers and their audience. When writing down Berber tales, that Hamadi had collected in northern Morocco, he t

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Owusu, Xornam Atta, and Sika Koomson. "Crossroads of Culture: The African Storyteller and The Western Theatre (Drama) Actor, Director, Producer." British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies 4, no. 3 (2023): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0197.

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The paper argues that in Africa, the storyteller discursively functions as an actor, director, a producer, and all. It investigates the point of emergence and the point of departure between the storyteller in Ghana and that of the Western theatre stage performer, director and producer. The study regards the storytelling art as a literary theory which is an intellectual knowledge paradigm grounded in values derived from indigenous cultural experiences of the storyteller. By analysing and drawing particular attention to roles of the storyteller, this article expresses perspectives, based upon th

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Sharma, Shyam Prasad. "Voices of the Trail: Trauma, Memory, Identity, and Resilience in Robert J. Conley’s Mountain Windsong." Dhaulagiri Journal of Contemporary Issues 3, no. 1 (2025): 19–30. https://doi.org/10.3126/djci.v3i1.79657.

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Robert J. Conley’s Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears gives voice to the marginalized Cherokee people, spotlighting their trauma, resistance, and cultural identity during the forced relocation known as the Trail of Tears. Blending historical fiction with a modern frame narrative, the novel uses oral storytelling through a grandfather passing tales to his grandson to preserve memory, resist dominant historiography, and reinforce indigenous identity. It reclaims the forgotten history of Native Americans by incorporating legends, songs, anecdotes, and historical documents that refle

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Geist, Eugene A., and Jerry Aldridge. "Genre, Content, and Organization of Kindergarten Children's Oral Story Inventions." Psychological Reports 85, no. 3 (1999): 817–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.817.

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This pilot investigation focused on the genre, content, and organization used in the oral story inventions of 10 African-American children from a kindergarten class in an urban school system in the southeastern United States. After four days of instruction in storytelling through the use of fairy tales, the researcher asked each child to make up a story and tell it. The 10 children's stories were tape-recorded and transcribed. Content analysis indicated the children told fantasy stories based on familiar themes, with a parent often playing a role. The organization of the stories was a disjoint

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Pope, Bonnie, and Kathaleen Bloom. "Hopes and dreams: poverty, motherhood and health care." International Journal of Advanced Nursing Studies 5, no. 2 (2016): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijans.v5i2.6535.

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Racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes exist in all areas of health care even when factors related to income; insurance status and access to care are controlled. The importance of the social environment versus biological influences a person’s health status are explored in this study. Healthy People 2020 identified maternal health status to pregnancy-related health outcomes and African American women are at greater risk for poor pregnancy outcomes including increased rates of maternal, perinatal, neonatal, and infant mortality.Study Purpose: To understand the meaning of being and Afri

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Suzuki, Hiroyuki, and Sonam Wangmo. "Hearsay evidential marking strategy in Lhagang Tibetan." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44, no. 2 (2021): 141–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ltba.21001.suz.

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Abstract This exploratory study focuses on the use of hearsay evidential marking in the course of storytelling in a Tibetic language, Lhagang Tibetan, combining a descriptive linguistic approach with a literary-theoretic analysis. Tibetic languages generally possess a morpho-syntactically encoded evidential-epistemic system, in which the hearsay evidential represents a non-first-hand information source. However, we find a random use of the hearsay evidential marker in the oral literature of Lhagang Tibetan, although it has been transmitted from one generation to another by storytellers. The ar

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Reef, Anne. "African Words, Academic Choices: Re-Presenting Interviews and Oral Histories." History in Africa 35 (January 2008): 419–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.0.0002.

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There are many things that it is like, this storytelling business. One of them (so she says in one of the paragraphs she has not crossed out yet) is a bottle with a genie in it. When the storyteller opens the bottle, the genie is released into the world, and it costs all hell to get him back in again. Her position … better, on the whole, that the genie stay in the bottle.So says the narrator of the protagonist of J.M. Coetzee's novel, Elizabeth Costello. Costello, an aging novelist, philosophizes at a point in the book where Coetzee has conspired to provoke a moment of ethical reflection on th

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Neely, Sarah. "‘The story of the reel that went for a swim’: Cinema Memory and the History of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild as Narrated through Oral History Interviews and surrounding Metadata." Northern Scotland 11, no. 1 (2020): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nor.2020.0204.

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This article draws from existing work relating to the creative writing strand of the Major Minor Cinema project, which was inspired by the surprising discovery of project's pilot study that some cinema-goers from the period of research had been inspired to write poems or stories in response to their experience of going to the Film Guild screenings. Building on an earlier publication in the journal Participations (May 2019), which largely focused on the project's use of creative methodologies and creative writing workshops as a way of exploring cinema memory, this article will consider the way

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Tolulope Daniel Ojuola. "Migration and memory: Intersections of black diasporic identities in African and Caribbean literature." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 24, no. 3 (2024): 501–15. https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.24.3.3586.

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Migration and memory are central themes in African and Caribbean literature, offering profound insights into the complexities of Black diasporic identities. This study explores how writers from these regions, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Derek Walcott, and Edwidge Danticat, portray the lived experiences of migration and its intricate interplay with memory. Migration, often accompanied by displacement and loss, serves as both a physical and emotional journey that shapes the diasporic identity. Memory acts as a bridge between past and present, enabling characters to navigate their sense of

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Tolulope, Daniel Ojuola. "Migration and memory: Intersections of black diasporic identities in African and Caribbean literature." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 24, no. 3 (2024): 501–15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15172640.

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Migration and memory are central themes in African and Caribbean literature, offering profound insights into the complexities of Black diasporic identities. This study explores how writers from these regions, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Derek Walcott, and Edwidge Danticat, portray the lived experiences of migration and its intricate interplay with memory. Migration, often accompanied by displacement and loss, serves as both a physical and emotional journey that shapes the diasporic identity. Memory acts as a bridge between past and present, enabling characters to navigate their sense of

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Mereu, Myriam. "Cogas, janas e le altre: le creature mitiche e fantastiche nella letteratura e nel cinema sardi." Italianistica Debreceniensis 24 (December 1, 2018): 56–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.34102/italdeb/2018/4661.

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Sardinian contemporary literature and films have recently recovered an extensive heritage of folk myths and legends taken from the oral tradition. Legendary figures, such as accabadoras (female figure who was enabled with the task of easing the sufferings of the dying people), and fantasy creatures, such as cogas, surbiles (‘vampire witches’), janas (‘fairies, pixies’), and panas (‘the ghosts of women who died in childbirth’) are being revived by writers and film directors with the purpose to bring their memory back to life and share it with a wide audience of readers and spectators. The

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Ilea, Laura T. "The Secret Memory. How The Goncourt 2021, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Rewrites the Story of the “Black Rimbaud”." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 69, no. 2 (2024): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2024.2.02.

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The Secret Memory. How the Goncourt 2021, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Rewrites the Story of the “Black Rimbaud”. In a mixture of “savage detective story” à la Bolaño, of diary, journalism, interviews and discussions on “plagiarism,” the revolutionary book of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr rewrites the history of Western relations to Africa, to its cultures and its storytelling, but also to different forms of marginality, since its main character, Elimane Madag, is also travelling to South America, being part of its most interesting intellectual circles – through, for instance, Sábato, Gombrowicz, Silvina and

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Pereira, Ana Paula, Sueli Bortolin, and João Arlindo dos Santos Neto. "The literary performance of the Brazilian storyteller Rolando Boldrin." RDBCI: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação 20 (November 2, 2022): e022024. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/rdbci.v20i00.8671176.

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Introduction: Literary performance promotes memory preservation through popular oral narratives, configurating a form of resistance for Brazilian people and our culture. When literary performance is developed using storytelling, it becomes fascinating, as oral narratives are often undervalued, but they carry the identity, traits and ways of typically Brazilian characters. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the literary performance of storyteller Rolando Boldrin on the TV show Sr. Brasil. Methodology: As for methodological procedures, bibliographic and documentary, descriptive and

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Janeth, Del Rosario Yagual Magda, and Italo Carabajo Romero. "The use of storytelling for the development of oral production in english for sixth grade A2 level." South Florida Journal of Development 4, no. 5 (2023): 2114–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46932/sfjdv4n5-022.

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In the development of this document, in the first part, a bibliographical analysis of the importance of telling personal stories in English as a second language has been elaborated, highlighting the importance of the hippocampus and memory to be able to put together a story from a psychological point of view; the importance of the hippocampus in the development of the verbalisation of the past tense. The Piaget period is highlighted, that of concrete operations as a means of learning. Linguistically, an analysis is made of the consonantal combinations that later affect phonetics. Methodologica

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Cento Bull, Anna, and Chris Reynolds. "Uses of Oral History in Museums: A Tool for Agonism and Dissonance or Promoting a Linear Narrative?" Museum and Society 19, no. 3 (2021): 283–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v19i3.3520.

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This paper explores the potential for the deployment of oral history in the museum space to challenge hegemonic narratives on the past and enhance multivocality. Following an overview of the general merits of oral history and debates about its use in museums, we set out the arguments in favour of combining such an approach with the notion of agonistic memory. We then move to a comparative analysis between the Schindler’s Factory exhibition in Krakow and the Voices of 68 project at National Museums NI’s Ulster Museum, Belfast to explore the limitations and benefits of digital storytelling as a

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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 (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 rhinocero

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Wilson-Kleekamp, Traci. "Descendants of Celia and Robert Newsom Speak." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (2020): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020049.

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This paper deploys narrative inquiry and analysis to capture the oral history of two families’ intergenerational memory of an African American woman named Celia who was hanged in 1855 for killing her owner Robert Newsom. It is the first scholarly investigation into the intergenerational memory of both black and white descendants of Robert Newsom, and the first to be conducted utilizing the theory of critical family history. Through the paradigm of Black Feminist Thought, the paper analyzes the power imbalances embedded in the narrative about family relations, especially those that conjure race

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Barros, Thaiza do Amaral, Aline Werneck Medeiros Coutinho, and Sandra Madureira. "twofold role of reading in enriching L2 phonetic input." ESPecialist 45, no. 5 (2024): 197–221. https://doi.org/10.23925/2318-7115.2024v45i5e65657.

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This paper delves into the multifaceted role of reading in the acquisition of second language (L2) sounds, focusing on the dual engagement of learners as listeners and readers. It underscores the importance of auditory and written input in facilitating L2 sound acquisition and consolidation. By examining empirical studies and theoretical frameworks, the paper highlights how storytelling is a pivotal strategy in enriching learners' phonetic input, thereby influencing their oral production and comprehension skills. It discusses how storytelling captivates young learners' attention and enhances t

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A. T., Ajala,, Adeyanju, A. R., and Adeagbo, A. "Tradition and Culture: A Reflection of African Society in Femi Adebayo’s Film; Seven Doors." International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 8, no. 2 (2025): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.52589/ijlll-iye4gkin.

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African traditions and cultural heritage are deeply embedded in the values, beliefs, and practices passed down through generations. Despite the pressures of modernisation and globalisation, preserving these traditions remains crucial to maintaining African identity. This study examines Seven Doors, a Nigerian limited series directed by Femi Adebayo, as a depiction of cultural artefact that reflects and preserves African heritage. The film, set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, explores themes of monarchy, tradition, morality, and the tension between cultural continuity and modernity. Using th

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Haggett, George K. "Philip Venables and Ted Huffman, Denis & Katya, London, Southbank Centre, Purcell Room, 13–14 March 2020." Tempo 74, no. 294 (2020): 85–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298220000431.

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Oral history is experiencing something of a heyday in the public imagination. The past ten years have seen a proliferation of podcasts – Sarah Koenig's Serial, Brian Reed's S-Town, Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect – which revolve around the testimony of ordinary people. Many of their fictional counterparts, most overtly Archive 81, hinge around the very practice of documenting, archiving and interpreting oral histories. BBC radio's oral history The Century Speaks (1999) was broadcast to an audience of millions. In the same year, radio historian Susan Douglas presciently called for a return to

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