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Iwuji, H. O. M. "Librarianship and oral tradition in Africa." International Library Review 21, no. 2 (1989): 201–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0020-7837(89)90008-3.

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Iwuji, H. O. M. "Librarianship and oral tradition in Africa." International Library Review 22, no. 1 (1990): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0020-7837(90)90039-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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Jones, Adam. "Some Reflections on the Oral Traditions of the Galinhas Country, Sierra Leone." History in Africa 12 (1985): 151–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171718.

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Whenever historians of Africa write: “According to tradition…”, they evade the crucial question of what kind of oral tradition they are referring to. The assumption that oral tradition is something more or less of the same nature throughout Africa, or indeed the world, still permeates many studies on African history; and even those who have themselves collected oral material seldom pause to consider how significant this material is or how it compares with that available in other areas.The majority of studies of oral tradition have been written by people who worked with fairly formal traditions
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Oyewumi, Oyeronke. "Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions." History in Africa 25 (1998): 263–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172190.

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Of all the things that were produced in Africa during the colonial period—cash crops, states, and tribes, to name a few—history and tradition are the least acknowledged as products of the colonial situation. This does not mean that Africans did not have history before the white man came. Rather, I am making distinctions among the following: firstly, history as lived experience; secondly, history as a record of lived experience which is coded in the oral traditions; and finally, the recently constituted written history. This last category is very much tied up with European engagements with Afri
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Rahner, C. "Community theatre and indigenous performance traditions: An introduction to Chicano theatre, with reference to parallel developments in South Africa." Literator 17, no. 3 (1996): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v17i3.622.

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This article will focus on the theme of community and on the forms stemming from oral literature and musical tradition in Chicano theatre, while drawing comparisons with similar developments in South Africa. I will argue that the re-appropriation of traditional modes and their integration into stage performance replaced the formerly “Eurocentric definition of theatre” with a more indigenous specificity, a development that has been observed in South Africa as well (Hauptfleisch, 1988:40). We can thus speak of a certain divergence from standard contemporary Western traditions in both the Chicano
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Schellnack-Kelly, Isabel. "The Role of Storytelling in Preserving Africa’s Spirit by Conserving the Continent’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 continent’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 Africa’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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Cinnamon, John M. "Fieldwork, Orality, Text: Ethnographic and Historical Fields of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Gabon." History in Africa 38 (2011): 47–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2011.0010.

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I can claim no direct pedigree from African Studies at Wisconsin, but one of my own graduate school mentors, Robert Harms, benefitted from David Henige's and Jan Vansina's influence; all three have profoundly marked my own approaches to the historical anthropology of equatorial Africa. In this paper I draw on David Henige's illuminating and still relevant insights into the problem of “feedback,” in light of a key methodological preoccupation in my own discipline of anthropology – “fieldwork.” In particular I want to suggest how ethnographic fields are formed over time through a layering proces
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Afigbo, A. E. "Oral Tradition and the History of Segmentary Societies." History in Africa 12 (1985): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171708.

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The field of the methodology of oral tradition has become increasingly specialized and technical. This much is clear from even a casual acquaintance with publications in this area. The fact is that ever since the publication in 1961 of Jan Vansina's epoch-making book, Oral Tradition, the study of the methodology of oral tradition has become a minor academic industry among historians, psychohistorians and anthropologists. Different aspects of the problems posed by the use of this family of historical evidence--dating and chronology, reliability, methods of collection and preservation, technique
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van Dyck, Steven. "Sola Scriptura in Africa: Missions and the Reformation Literacy Tradition." Evangelical Quarterly 90, no. 1 (2019): 61–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-09001004.

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This theoretical reflection addresses issues arising in the history of world Christianity, in particular regarding mission churches in Africa since the nineteenth century. The article first evaluates the development of oral, manuscript and print communication cultures in western culture, and their influence since the first century in the Church. Modernity could only develop in a print culture, creating the cultural environment for the Reformation. Sola Scriptura theology, as in Calvin and Luther, considered the written Word of God essential for the Church’s life. The role of literacy throughou
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Oral Tradition – Africa"

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Nhlangwini, Andrew Pandheni. "The ibali of Nongqawuse: translating the oral tradition into visual expression." Thesis, Port Elizabeth Technikon, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/237.

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The tribal life and the oral traditions of black South Africans have been marginalized. The consequence of the western civilization and the apartheid regime forced people to do away from their traditional heritage and culture; they adopted the western way of life. They buried their oral tradition and only a little has survived. To save the dying culture of the art of the oral tradition we need to go out and record and document the surviving oral tradition as soon as possible. Since the art of the oral tradition is an art form conducted by an artist, it may be possible to tell the ibali likaNon
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Stonier, Janet Elizabeth Thornhill. "Oral into written : an experiment in creating a text for African religion." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16127.

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Bibliography: pages 105-113.<br>This study is a description, from the vantage point of a participant observer, of the development of a new, and probably unique, method of writing, teaching and learning about an oral tradition - a method which is grounded in ways of knowing, thinking and learning inherent in that tradition. It arose in the course of a co-operative venture - between two lecturers in African Religion and myself - to write a text for South African schools on African Religion (sometimes called African Traditional Religion). Wanting to be true to our subject within the obvious const
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Mostert, Andre. "Developing a systematic model for the capturing and use of African oral poetry: the Bongani Sitole experience." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002154.

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Oral traditions and oral literature have long contributed to human communication. The advent of arguably the most important technology, the written word, altered human ability to create and develop. However, this development for all its potential and scope created one of the most insidious dichotomies. As the written word developed so too the oral word became devalued and pushed to the fringes of societal development. One of the unfortunate outcomes has been a focus on the nomenclatures associated with orality and oral tradition, which although of importance, has skewed where the focus could a
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Pires, Ricardo Annanias. "A tradição oral africana e as raízes do jazz." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8137/tde-24112009-161055/.

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Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar as peculiaridades da tradição oral africana e suas influências na criação do jazz. Os africanos, sendo um povo onde sua cultura tem como principal característica enfatizar o emprego da oralidade na transmissão do conhecimento, o faz de forma muito distinta aos padrões culturais europeus. Sob a ótica do povo africano, a palavra expressa de forma oral possui um grande valor, sendo atribuído à mesma, um nível de relevância tamanho que chega a ser vista como um elemento místico capaz de criar ou até mesmo destruir. Os africanos, presentes em solo americano,
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Conolly, Joan. "(C)Omissions of perspective, lens and worldview : what Africa can learn from the 'Western Mind' about the oral tradition of (indigenous) knowledge." Journal for New Generation Sciences : Socio-constructive language practice : training in the South African context : Special Edition, Vol 6, Issue 3: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/511.

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Published Article<br>Sometimes what is not in a text is more significant than what is. This paper examines a variety of texts to establish what is and is not present. The argument presented in this paper demonstrates that skewed perspectives, closed lenses, and distorted worldviews are powerful teachers. Appropriate perspectives and lenses can provide a worldview of complex and sophisticated thought, traditioned through memory, simultaneously stretching back into the past and drawing the past into the present…and pointing a way into the future. The paper examines a well-respected accou
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Kabuta, N. S. "La formule et l'autopanégyrique dans les traditions orales africaines: étude structurelle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212519.

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Baholo, Keresemose Richard. "A pictorial response to certain witchcraft beliefs within Northern Sotho communities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21197.

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Bibliography: pages 58-62.<br>This study focuses on stories of witchcraft within the Batlokwa - a sub-group of the Northern Sotho community living in the northern Transvaal. Having grown up in this society where witchcraft beliefs are predominant, my fears, as a child, of witches were very real. In later life I have attempted to ignore these fears. However, I do not think they will ever disappear entirely, as I will never be able to extricate myself from my origins. This experience of the dangerous witch is one of the reasons that compelled me to respond pictorially to some of these perception
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Souza, Victor Martins de. "A poética e a política no cinema de Glauber Rocha e Sembene Ousmane." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12747.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Victor Martins de Souza.pdf: 14114209 bytes, checksum: b000d73d7ade4a48657730af000956ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-18<br>Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>We discuss the relation between Glauber Rocha and Sembene Ousmane s cinematographics and political projects considering images dialogues. The focus of our analysis is on the movies Der Leone have sept cabeças (1969-70), by Glauber, and Ceddo (1976), by Sembene. Using the technique of historians, these filmmakers problem
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Dowling, Tessa. "The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17456.

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Bibliography: pages 259-274.<br>In this thesis I examine the way in which Xhosa speakers create humour, what forms (e.g. satire, irony, punning, parody) they favour in both oral and textual literature, and the genres in which these forms are delivered and executed. The functions of Xhosa humour, both during and after apartheid, are examined, as is its role in challenging, contesting and reaffirming traditional notions of society and culture. The particular techniques Xhosa comedians and comic writers use in order to elicit humour are explored with specific reference to the way in which the pho
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Gromov, Mikhail D. "East African Literature: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions. Ed. by J.K.S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011, 513 pp. ISBN 978-3-8325-2816-4." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-107482.

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Books on the topic "Oral Tradition – Africa"

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Ibrahim, Tala Kashim. The oral tale in Africa. BET, 1989.

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He ate the yam and the child: 25 Yoombe folktales/Africa. Infinity Publishing, 2008.

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Tembo, Mwizenge. Legends of Africa. MetroBooks, 1996.

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Maïga, Hassimi Oumarou. Balancing written history with oral tradition: The legacy of the Songhoy people. Routledge, 2009.

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African oral literature: Backgrounds, character, and continuity. Indiana University Press, 1992.

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Okpewho, Isidore. African oral literature: Backgrounds, character and continuity. IndianaUniversity Press, 1992.

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Narrating (hi)stories in West Africa. Lit, 2015.

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Ibáñez, Mario Corcuera. Palabra y realidad: Tradición y literatura oral en Africa Negra. Fundación para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, 1991.

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FESPACO (Festival) (10th 1987 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). Tradition orale et nouveaux médias. Editions OCIC, 1989.

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Zenani, Nongenile Masithathu. The world and the word: Tales and observations from the Xhosa oral tradition. University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Oral Tradition – Africa"

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Ojaide, Tanure. "Michel Foucault and the Urhobo Udje oral poetic tradition." In Literature and Culture in Global Africa. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315177700-3.

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Mirzeler, Mustafa Kemal. "Oral Tradition and Identity." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_20.

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Tamari, Tal. "Epic Tradition." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_9.

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Essegbey, James. "Documenting Oral Genres." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_7.

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Owonibi, Sola, and Richard Bampoh-Addo. "Oral Tradition as Commitment in Modern African Poetry." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_35.

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Liman, Rasheedah. "Oral Traditions in Selected Stage Performances." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_33.

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Folaranmi, Stephen, and Oyewole Oyeniyi. "Reinventing Oral Traditions Through Arts and Technology." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_43.

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Saboro, Emmanuel. "War Songs: Slavery, Oral Tradition, and Identity Construction." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_22.

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Na’Allah, Abdul-Rasheed. "Criticism of African Art and Literature." In Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75079-8_2.

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Motsei, Anastacia Sara, and Pule Alexis Phindane. "Multiculturalism, Orality, and Folklore in South Africa." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_25.

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