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- Title: Africa's Variety of Arabo-Islamic Literatures--an Overview (Editorial)
- Author : Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 203 KB
Description
Oral and written literatures Africa, in the words of Leopold Sedar Senghor is a creative continent where "giver and receiver meet" (quoted in Richard 2004: 21). It is indeed a continent that has been and continues to be the home of a plurality (and an exchange) of cultures. Africa's diverse religio-ethnic and linguistic communities have for generations expressed their communal feelings via a myriad of languages spoken along its lengthy coasts and vast hinterland. The expressions and emotions vented by these communities have been captured in the form of rich "oral literary traditions". These traditions have been orally transmitted and disseminated by, among others, travelling bards, itinerant storytellers and roving poets. Alongside the production of written literature, the oral literary tradition has been accepted as a significant genre of literature.