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| Title: | A Review of African Oral Traditions and Literature |
| Author: | Scheub, Harold |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Periodical: | African Studies Review |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| Period: | June-September |
| Pages: | 1-72 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | oral traditions literature Literature, Mass Media and the Press Education and Oral Traditions Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524603 |
| Abstract: | This article is more or less divided in two parts. The first part describes (Ancient) Egyptian oral and literary tradition and the influence of Islam (after the Arab invasion of Egypt in A.D. 641) on African oral and literary tradition, notably of the Hausa and Swahili. In the second part the author gives many examples of how African literature has been involved from the beginning in a complex dialogue with the oral tradition, thematically as well as formally. Notes, ref. |
