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Introduction: New perspectives on African oral traditions and folklore / Akintunde Akinyemi, Toyhin Falola
Editors and contributors
List of figures
List of tables
PART I. CONTEXTS AND PRACTICALITIES. 1. Creativity and performance in oral poetry / Godini G. Darah
2. Concept and components of performance / Anya Ude Egwu
3. The role of the audience in oral performance / Clement Adeniyi Akangbe
4. Orality, history and historical reconstruction / Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
5. Insights from festivals and carnivals / Philip Adedotun Ogundeji, Mercy Ayo Fasehun
6. Fieldwork and data collection / Arinpe G. Adejumo, Akeem Oyebamiji
7. Documenting oral genres / James Essegbey
8. Retrospect and prospects of oral traditions and folklore / Oluwole Coker
PART II. THEMES, TROPES AND TYPES. 9. Epic tradition / Tal Tamari
10. Divination and divinatory systems / Omotade Adegbindin
11. Myth and mythology / Oluwatoyin Bimpe Jegede
12. The dirge / Felicia Ohwovoriole
13. Dreams within the context of the Basotho culture / Anastacia Sara Motsei
14. Drum language and literature / Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa
15. Oratory and rhetoric: praise poetry / David Adu-Amankwah
16. Proverbs, naming, and other forms of veiled speech / Cécile Leguy
17. Oral poetry: Monyoncho's orature and Abagusii culture of non-violence / Augustine Agwuele, Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange
18. Ifá: a womanist deconstruction of gender politics / Olusegun Adekoya
19. A repertoire of Bukusu nonverbal communicative system: some gender differences / Margaret Barasa, Augustine Agwuele
20. Oral tradition and identity / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
21. The figure of the child in oral literature / Lere Adeyemi
22. War songs: slavery, oral tradition, and identity construction / Emmanuel Saboro
23. Tracing the voice of protest in selected oral literature / Russell H. Kaschula
24. Oral literature, liberty and political change / Enongene Mirabeau Sone
25. Multiculturalism, orality, and folklore in South Africa / Anastacia Sara Motsei, Pule Alexis Phindane
26. Fichee-Cambalaalla of the Sidaama people / Augustine Agwuele, Tafesse Matewos Karo
27. Orality indexing: cultural benefits of male circumcision / Lesibana J. Rafapa
PART III. TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSPOSITION. 28. To tongue the body / to body the tongue: problematizing the translation of oral traditions / Luan Staphorst
29. Musical transformation / Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame
30. African folklore: the case of others and Dismas Nyangau's popular music / Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange
31. When witches and wizards are narrators: oral autobiography, magical realism, and memory / Adetayo Alabi
32. Absorption of oral tradition and folklore narrative in written fictional works: Paul Lomami-Tchibamba, Ngandu Nkashama and Alain Mabanckou / Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
33. Oral traditions in selected stage performances / Rasheedah Liman
34. From the hybrid to the transcultural: a comparative study on orality in the poetry of contemporary / Robert Simon
35. Oral tradition as commitment in modern African poetry / Sola Owonibi, Richard Bampoh-Addo
36. The masked snap, the snapped mask: mask, power, and betrayal in African cultures / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya
37. Caribbean orality / Hanétha Vété-Congolo
38. The re-invention of myths, legends, panegyrics and folktales in the Afro-Latin-American diaspora / Félix Ayoh'Omidire
39. Zora Neale Hurston: retrieving folk memory in mules and men / Joseph McLaren
PART IV. ORALITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND POPULAR CULTURE. 40. Orality, media, and information technology / Kole Odutola
41. Orality and information communication technology / Tunde Adegbola
42. Orality and advertisement: Swahili proverbs in mobile phone service ads in Tanzania / Charles Bwenge
43. Reinventing oral traditions through arts and technology / Stephen Folaranmi, Oyewole Oyeniyi
44. De-territorializing lyrical performances via digital culture / Abubakar Aliyu Liman
45. Orality and technology: transforming traditional songs to popular music / Rosaleen Oabona Brankie Nhlekisana
46. Performance of folklore on television: new vistas in African folklore renditions / Rose A. Opondo
47. Orality, cinema, film, and video / Henry O. Unuajohwofia
PART V. ORAL TRADITION, FOLKLORE, AND EDUCATION. 48. Restaging oral narrative in civic education / Kimingichi Wabende
49. Orality and early childhood education / Damola Adesina
50. Teaching folklore and oral traditions: the folktale medium as pedagogy / Michael Oladejo Afolayan
Index.
Editors and contributors
List of figures
List of tables
PART I. CONTEXTS AND PRACTICALITIES. 1. Creativity and performance in oral poetry / Godini G. Darah
2. Concept and components of performance / Anya Ude Egwu
3. The role of the audience in oral performance / Clement Adeniyi Akangbe
4. Orality, history and historical reconstruction / Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
5. Insights from festivals and carnivals / Philip Adedotun Ogundeji, Mercy Ayo Fasehun
6. Fieldwork and data collection / Arinpe G. Adejumo, Akeem Oyebamiji
7. Documenting oral genres / James Essegbey
8. Retrospect and prospects of oral traditions and folklore / Oluwole Coker
PART II. THEMES, TROPES AND TYPES. 9. Epic tradition / Tal Tamari
10. Divination and divinatory systems / Omotade Adegbindin
11. Myth and mythology / Oluwatoyin Bimpe Jegede
12. The dirge / Felicia Ohwovoriole
13. Dreams within the context of the Basotho culture / Anastacia Sara Motsei
14. Drum language and literature / Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa
15. Oratory and rhetoric: praise poetry / David Adu-Amankwah
16. Proverbs, naming, and other forms of veiled speech / Cécile Leguy
17. Oral poetry: Monyoncho's orature and Abagusii culture of non-violence / Augustine Agwuele, Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange
18. Ifá: a womanist deconstruction of gender politics / Olusegun Adekoya
19. A repertoire of Bukusu nonverbal communicative system: some gender differences / Margaret Barasa, Augustine Agwuele
20. Oral tradition and identity / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
21. The figure of the child in oral literature / Lere Adeyemi
22. War songs: slavery, oral tradition, and identity construction / Emmanuel Saboro
23. Tracing the voice of protest in selected oral literature / Russell H. Kaschula
24. Oral literature, liberty and political change / Enongene Mirabeau Sone
25. Multiculturalism, orality, and folklore in South Africa / Anastacia Sara Motsei, Pule Alexis Phindane
26. Fichee-Cambalaalla of the Sidaama people / Augustine Agwuele, Tafesse Matewos Karo
27. Orality indexing: cultural benefits of male circumcision / Lesibana J. Rafapa
PART III. TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSPOSITION. 28. To tongue the body / to body the tongue: problematizing the translation of oral traditions / Luan Staphorst
29. Musical transformation / Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame
30. African folklore: the case of others and Dismas Nyangau's popular music / Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange
31. When witches and wizards are narrators: oral autobiography, magical realism, and memory / Adetayo Alabi
32. Absorption of oral tradition and folklore narrative in written fictional works: Paul Lomami-Tchibamba, Ngandu Nkashama and Alain Mabanckou / Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
33. Oral traditions in selected stage performances / Rasheedah Liman
34. From the hybrid to the transcultural: a comparative study on orality in the poetry of contemporary / Robert Simon
35. Oral tradition as commitment in modern African poetry / Sola Owonibi, Richard Bampoh-Addo
36. The masked snap, the snapped mask: mask, power, and betrayal in African cultures / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya
37. Caribbean orality / Hanétha Vété-Congolo
38. The re-invention of myths, legends, panegyrics and folktales in the Afro-Latin-American diaspora / Félix Ayoh'Omidire
39. Zora Neale Hurston: retrieving folk memory in mules and men / Joseph McLaren
PART IV. ORALITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND POPULAR CULTURE. 40. Orality, media, and information technology / Kole Odutola
41. Orality and information communication technology / Tunde Adegbola
42. Orality and advertisement: Swahili proverbs in mobile phone service ads in Tanzania / Charles Bwenge
43. Reinventing oral traditions through arts and technology / Stephen Folaranmi, Oyewole Oyeniyi
44. De-territorializing lyrical performances via digital culture / Abubakar Aliyu Liman
45. Orality and technology: transforming traditional songs to popular music / Rosaleen Oabona Brankie Nhlekisana
46. Performance of folklore on television: new vistas in African folklore renditions / Rose A. Opondo
47. Orality, cinema, film, and video / Henry O. Unuajohwofia
PART V. ORAL TRADITION, FOLKLORE, AND EDUCATION. 48. Restaging oral narrative in civic education / Kimingichi Wabende
49. Orality and early childhood education / Damola Adesina
50. Teaching folklore and oral traditions: the folktale medium as pedagogy / Michael Oladejo Afolayan
Index.