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African Oral Literature: An Introduction

African Oral Literature: An Introduction

Na'allah, Abdul-Rasheed

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Global Africa Textbooks

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesOther African Languages

ISBN10: 1032613475
ISBN13: 9781032613475
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 25 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

African Oral Literature: An Introduction guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age.

This comprehensive and engaging textbook covers the key concepts and methodologies behind the history, formation, delivery, and performance of oral literature. Folktales, proverbs, rhetoric, jokes, poetry, and theatre are explored in turn, before looking at compositional techniques, artistry, education, characterisation, and cosmology. The final part of the book investigates the interplay between oral traditions and technology such as social media in the twenty-first century. Drawing on traditional African pedagogy, the book weaves in African metaphors, rhetorical styles and performance modes, aiming for readers to imbibe African orality rhetoric page by page.

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