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Reviving the Oral Traditions of Africa - Reclaiming Our Knowledge ...

Oral traditions signify some of those unique cultural gifts bestowed upon ancient indigenous civilizations not only in Africa but across the ...

African American Oral History - FamilySearch

With fewer ways to document African American ancestors going back in time, oral history or documented narratives can be used to extract ...

African oral tradition, cultural retentions and the transmission of ...

This paper proposes the modern concept of a library supports African slaves' cultural retention and transmission of knowledge as important in the development ...

traditional arts in West African culture.

Imagine now that your community depends on you to remember its oral traditions so they will never be forgotten. You memorize stories, sayings, and the history ...

African American Migrant and European Immigrant Oral Histories ...

Homestead Album Oral History Project Records (1975-1977) Created by Pitt's Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, this collection contains 31 cassettes/20 ...

African Oral Tradition- Articles- BlackandChristian.com

It is also a mode of transmitting feelings, and attitudes. For centuries, African people depended upon oral tradition to teach the listener's important ...

Collections of African American Oral Histories - Research Guides

View oral history video interviews with thousands of historically significant African Americans in the arts, business, education,entertainment, law, the ...

West African Oral History - (World Literature I) - Fiveable

West African oral history refers to the traditions of storytelling and verbal communication that have been passed down through generations in West Africa. This ...

The rich history of oral tradition in Africa - Right for Education

Oral tradition is when history, stories, memories and traditions are spoken about and passed on from generation to generation. Oral traditions ...

African literature - Oral Traditions, Modern Writers | Britannica

Writers in Africa today owe much to African oral tradition and to those authors who have occupied the space between the two traditions, in an area of creative ...

African National Congress Oral History Transcripts Collection

The ANC Oral History Project was designed to preserve accounts of the lives and struggles of those who fought apartheid in South Africa. In October 2000, Bruce ...

Africa: Oral Tradition - geography

African oral tradition involves both the material that is spoken—the oral art—and the setting in which it is spoken. Although very old, oral tradition remains ...

Oral History and South African Historians - Duke University Press

This new concern with oral tradition as history made itself felt among a small but influential group of South African historians, most of whom were based in the ...

The Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition ...

The Centre aims to undertake linguistic, historical and sociological studies of African communities; produce and preserve written, audio, photographic and audio ...

The value of oral history

Oral history helps to identify, appreciate and respect different aspects of heritage. This includes the people, events and experiences that have shaped our ...

Black Oral History Collection - WSU Libraries Digital Collections

The Black Oral History Collection consists of interviews conducted by Quintard Taylor and his associates, Charles Ramsay and John Dawkins. They interviewed ...

Oral history in Africa: A brief review of challenges and possibilities

This study examines the European conception of African history and African response to those racist propaganda.

Oral History and Archives in the New South Africa - Archivaria

Debates centre on whether. African oral histories are structured enough to be considered a proper genre, like praise poetry. Folkloric approaches tend to ...

Introduction Oral History | NARSSA

The former Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) was mandated by Cabinet to conceptualise and spearhead The National Oral History Programme (NOHP) for South ...

Oral tradition and indigenous knowledge | South African History Online

Oral tradition and indigenous knowledge · Some examples · The legend of queen Modjadji. Modjadji is the title of the queen of the Lobedu people.