Oral traditions in africa

    • [DOC File]African Oral Traditions - Global History 9th

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      Context: Early and medieval African societies preserved their histories through written and oral literature. In West Africa, griots, a highly honored professional storyteller recited ancient stories that would be passed on from generation to generation. The griot is often viewed as a leader in their society because they preserve the history.


    • [DOC File]African Oral Traditions

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      The oral traditions of Africa tell stories of tricksters, animal fables proverbs, riddles, and songs. This proverb reflects the value placed on passing on traditions: “The young cannot teach the old.” II. African Proverbs. A proverb is a simple saying that is known by everyone and repeated often. Proverbs are usually recognized by most ...


    • [DOC File]Anguilla's Oral Tradition: An Interview with Poet Patricia ...

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      Anguilla's Oral Tradition: An Interview with Poet Patricia Adams. ... Africa tings, Caribbean tings! An' my tongue is fill with stories. Dat mek ya head swell. ... I strive through Standard English and dialect poetry to preserve the oral culture and traditions of Anguilla. DW: In order to preserve knowledge of these practices.


    • [DOC File]Chapter 8 Africa & The Americas

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      By the late 1400s the religion of Islam had spread across North Africa. African Kingdoms . knowledge of most sub-Saharan civilizations is limited by their lack of a written language. Historians must rely upon archaeological findings, oral traditions, and the observations made by people of other cultures


    • [DOCX File]Unisa Study Notes

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      2.9 As a result of their geographical isolation, the Bantu-speakers had a culture without writing that is a pre-literate culture. However, it is possible to reconstruct their history through oral traditions. Explain what is meant by “oral traditions”. (1)


    • [DOCX File]Unisa Study Notes

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      Legal history and oral traditions in pre-colonial Africa. PRE-LITERATE TRADITION - The Bantu speakers have a preliterate tradition (a tradition without writing). The history of indigenous law can be traced back to a time when there was no writing. ORAL TRADITIONS.


    • [DOC File]Ancient Africa Review Sheet: Chapters 12 & 13

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      27. Describe how West African oral and written traditions have influenced today’s society. _____ 28. List the two main functions of West African visual arts. a. b. 29. What written and oral traditions did West Africans create? a. e. b. f. c. d. 30. Why did West Africans rely so heavily on oral traditions? _____ 31. What instruments were used ...


    • [DOC File]Africa: A History Denied Video Questions

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      a. History books b. Encyclopedias c. Oral Traditions. In 1932, the gold seeker, Ernst Van Graan used these people to find the royal burial ground. a. Bantu people b. Venda people c. Owchu people. The explorers found this at the royal burial ground. a. Nothing b. gold llama c. gold rhinoceros. What did Van Graan do with the artifacts? a.


    • [DOC File]Contextual readings of Exodus in Africa: Negotiating ...

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      4.1.3 Role of Oral Culture in Ngoni narratives. The Ngoni narratives of origin and migration that describe their identity, culture, religion, traditions are primarily transmitted orally. This explains as to why to a large extent the influence of oral culture among the indigenous people across all age groups (under 40-70) interviewed is predominant.


    • [DOCX File]15.2 West African Oral and Written Traditions

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      What written and oral traditions did West Africans create? (A proverb is one example.) West Africans created proverbs, stories, praise songs, poems, historical accounts and genealogies, and folktales. Why has the oral tradition been so important in West Africa? For a long time, there was no written tradition in West Africa. The oral tradition ...


    • [DOC File]The Polyphonic Traditions of the African Pygmies and ...

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      The Republic of Georgia is home to what are probably the richest and most complex traditions of oral vocal polyphony outside of Africa. According to Jordania, “unlike many countries in Europe, where the tradition of polyphonic singing is represented only in some of the regions, the whole of Georgia is one big group of closely related ...


    • The Changamire State and the Rozvi

      Not long after the fall of the state, Carl Mauch was already collecting oral traditions in 1872 that were linking the Rozvi with the fall of Great Zimbabwe and the anger of Mwari. After the British occupation of the country, the Southern Rhodesia Native Department embarked on a short-lived program of historical research by its officials.


    • Enduring Legacies: Oral Tradition in Historical Research

      The reliance on oral tradition alone for many African societies, he posits, has resulted in the marginalization of African scholarship, and refusal to acknowledge that Africa was the originator of any significant contributions to science and philosophy: “the absence of the written word deprived much of Africa of the bounty of cumulative ...



    • [DOC File]Okot p’Bitek and the Poetics of Being

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      In his book Oral Traditions as Philosophy, Samuel Oluoch Imbo, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the African American Studies program at Hamline University, says “Okot p’Bitek’s songs and writings about Acholi philosophies of life have a single-minded purpose: to counter Western ethnography and to put Africans at the ...


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