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The World of African Storytelling
My favorite introduction to a discussion of African storytelling is to recall a setting that Oyekan Owomoyela sketched out many years ago from his experience in the Yoruba city of Ibadan in western Nigeria. It is of a traditional family relaxing in their premises at the end of a hardworking day.After the evening meal, the members of the family gather on a porch and if there is moonlight, the younger members gather in the courtyard to play games like hide and seek.On the porch, the entertainment begins with riddles. What dines with an oba (paramount chief of a community) and leaves him to clear the dishes? A fly. What passes befor the oba’s palace without making obeisance? Rain flood. On its way to Oyo its face is towards Oyo, on its way from Oyo its face is still towards Oyo. What is it? A double-faced drum. After a few riddles, the tales begin (Owomoyela 264-265).
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The new African diaspora
The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily
relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before
the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the
collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home
countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the
West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant
experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and
covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish
their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use
their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their
discussions of the new African diaspora.
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The Sacred Door and Other Stories
The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Bebaoffers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon.The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society's oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora's box, concludes with the question, \"What would you have done?\"Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.
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New African Diaspora
The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora.
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The new African disapora
The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora. Summary reprinted by permission of Indiana University Press
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Introduction
Confronting the phantom of his father \"Afolabe\" in a communal gathering at the ancestral village, Achille confesses that though he has forgotten the name he had before the fateful experience of the Middle Passage, he and his kind \"yearn for a sound that is missing\" (3.25.3). i then informed my audience that in holding its sixth conference in the caribbean nation of trinidad and tobago, the international Society for oral Literature in Africa (iSoLA) has been prompted by this noble goal of reconstituting the divided African family and its traditions that were disrupted by the unkind forces of history. After a few more remarks about Elder's research visits to Africa-in one of which (1977) I met him at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he was a visiting scholar-and the earnestness of his comparative investigations into the constituent sources of caribbean culture and society, I stated that it was in recognition of dr. Elder's pioneering work that iSoLA had \"chosen this conference as an opportunity to expand the horizons of our work and consequently to rechristen our organization the international Society for the oral Literatures of Africa,\" a name that succeeds in preserving the acronym despite the slight lexical ordering of the nomenclature.
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