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Books on: (africa OR african) AND (folklore OR folktales OR stories)

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The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales

Book by Bernard Binlin Dadié, Karen C. Hatch; University of Massachusetts Press, 1987

Subjects:

Folklore--Africa--Fiction, Tales--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...renaissance was on in West and South Africa. There was an awakening, and the African had found his voice. Of course, during...colonies had already begun to hammer out African imag ery and symbolism in an effort to...fifties contributed even more of the African essence to the French and English languages...
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Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology

Book by David Leeming, Jake Page; Oxford University Press, 1999

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African Americans--Folklore, Ethnic Folklore--United States, Folklore--United States, Indians Of North America--Folklore, Legends--United States, Tales--United States, United States--History, United States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to that effect--another kind of story. Somewhere along the continuum between mythology and such stories as fairy tales and jokes lie what...beyond a legend on the continuum of story types, and very American: a harmless...elaborate jokes called shaggy-dog stories. American folklore, then--its continuum of mythologies, legends, and folktales--is a reflection of the reality...
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

Book by Sylviane A. Diouf; Oxford University Press, 2007

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Clotilda (Ship), Mobile (Ala.)--Race Relations--History--19th Century, Mobile (Ala.)--Social Conditions--19th Century, Slave Trade--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th Century, Slave Trade--United States--History--19th Century, Slavery--Alabama--History--19th Century, Slaves--Alabama--Biography, Slaves--Alabama--History--19th Century, West Africans--Alabama--Biography, West Africans--Alabama--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the United States.46 Soon, all the African men had become Americans, if not in...concept of citizenship was foreign to the Africans. They had never been citizens of any...country was meaningless in pre-colonial Africa. To the African men in Mobile, becoming American citizens...were. They continued to identify as Africans in their dealings with the outside...
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Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics

Book by F. Odun Balogun; Greenwood Press, 1991

Subjects:

Africa--In Literature, Short Stories, African (English)--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...is most pleasing in such stories as "Fixions," "Stare...for Idleness" and in his folklore-inspired stories where thematic and artistic...my paper titled "Nigeria Folktales and Children Stories of Chinua Achebe." Both...in addition dedicates his story "Lexicographicide" Fixions...read at the Eight Ibadan African Literature Conference and...
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Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art

Book by Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown; University of Missouri Press, 1999

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African American Art, African American Women Artists, African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life, African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Folklore, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Folklore In Art, Literature And Folklore--United States, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Abrahamss introduction to his African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World, 6...Elsie Clews Parsons, Folklore of the Antilles, French...Karla F. C. Holloway, African Values and Western Chaos...slaves or never-enslaved Africans. They were concomitant...Wilfred G. O. Cartey, Africa of My Grandmother Singing...10. 24. Holloway, African Values, 121. While Holloway...

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Journal Articles on: (africa OR african) AND (folklore OR folktales OR stories)

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Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm-Story as Initiation

Journal article by Hasan El-Shamy; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 60, 2001

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Books--Reviews, Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story as Initiation (Book)--Reviews

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...Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--Story as Initiation by HASAN EL...from the Kabyle of North Africa (101-104). A sketchy...perhaps because in fact the story has been told in reverse...reference to Near Eastern and African tales, awaits the results...SHAMY, Hasan M. 1980 Folktales of Egypt: Collected, translated...edited with Middle Eastern and African parallels. Chicago: University...
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Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--story as Initiation

Journal article by Christine Goldberg; Western Folklore, Vol. 58, 1999

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Folklore, Gilet, Peter, Literary criticism, Nonfiction, Propp, Vladimir

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm--story as Initiation by Christine...one or two tales each from Africa, China, and the Americas...rituals in New Guinea and Africa that embody his folktale...particulars and suggests that folktales are initiations because the...international variants, some from Africa and Asia. The perceived...course of his doctorate in Folklore from the University of Poitiers...
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"Dogs Rescue Master from Tree Refuge," an African Folktale with World-wide Analogs

Journal article by Christine Goldberg; Western Folklore, Vol. 57, 1998

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Bascom, William, Folklore, Literary criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Refuge," an African Folktale with World-wide...honored question in folklore studies. It is often...over the extent of African influence on African-American culture...sought variants from Africa. William Bascoms...articles called "African Folktales in the New World...tales that are only African and AfricanAmerican...come to America from Africa?) is only one small...the details of the stories. "Dogs Rescue Master...
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Uther, Hans-Jorg. the Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson

Journal article by Sadhana Naithani; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 65, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography: Animal Tales, Tales of Magic, Religious Tales, and Realistic Tales, vol. 1 (Book)--Book reviews, The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography: Appendices, vol. 3 (Book)--Book reviews, The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography: Tales of the Stupid Ogre, Anecdotes and Jokes, and Formula Tales, vol. 2 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Types of International Folktales: A Classification...Types of International Folktales: A Classification...respectively. Since then folklore scholars used AaTh...the vast archives of folktales from different continents...of publications of folklore in English, German...reflect many more Asian, African, Latin American...
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Thomas Mopoku Mofolo's "Inverted Epic Hero": A Reading of Mofolo's . as an African Epic Folktale

Journal article by Kwame Ayivor; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, 1997

Subjects:

Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...powers is an ancient African tradition that is still...practiced today all over Africa, and Mofolo was, no...cannot, within the African cultural matrix, be...hallmarks of African folklore, but whose interpretative...aesthetic grooves of African traditional literature...maximizing absolute rule in Africa. Thus, Mofolos "anti...

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Magazine Articles on: (africa OR african) AND (folklore OR folktales OR stories)

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African Development Bank ... You Kidding? This Is the Story of How Africa Got a Development Bank in 1963, Thanks Largely to the Determination of a Visionary Liberian Technocrat, Dr Romeo Horton, Who Would Not Allow Even the World Bank to Browbeat Him on the Issue. Omar Ben Yedder Reports

Magazine article by Omar Ben Yedder; New African, October 2004

Subjects:

African Development Bank--Organization formation, African Development Bank--Services, Development banks--Services, Economic development--Africa, Economic development--Methods

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African Development Bank ... You Kidding? This Is the Story of How Africa Got a Development Bank in 1963...Omar Ben Yedder As the first African countries gained independence...argued that without unity, Africa could not develop and pledged...
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Lion and Bull - Folktales from the Digo of Kenya

Magazine article by Jan Knappert; World and I, Vol. 18, February 2003

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African folklore, Folk literature, African

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Lion and Bull - Folktales from the Digo of...Commentary These stories were collected in...offense. Animal folktales also contain a great...that many things Africans said about wild animals...correctly described. The story demonstrates that...purpose of these stories is to teach valuable...tales in all parts of Africa reflect the problematic...years of studying African folklore and storytelling...all the tales of Africa contained lessons...
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Nothing Excels like Excellence Itself ... the Remarkable Story of Africa-And Africans (Both Continental and Diasporan)-At the Olympic Games

Magazine article by Clayton Goodwin; New African, July 2008

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African American athletes--Achievements and awards, African American athletes--Social aspects, International sports--Demographic aspects, Olympics--2008 AD, Olympics--Demographic aspects

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...Itself ... the Remarkable Story of Africa-And Africans (Both Continental and Diasporan...Games. by Clayton Goodwin Africans will figure prominently...life. Whether from the African continent or from the Diaspora...relay team comprised three Africans and an Asian. The ghost...dictator slighted, but stories are always attracted to...
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The New African Story: Who Better to Tell the Story of New African Than Our Former Editor, Alan Rake, Who Edited the Magazine for 21 Years and Retired in May 1999. Please Sit Back and Enjoy How New African Became New African and the Voice of Africa

Magazine article by Alan Rake; New African, December 2006

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New African (Periodical)--History, New African (Periodical)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, New African (Periodical)--Services, Periodical editors--Management, Periodical editors--Personal narratives, Periodical publishing--History, Periodical publishing--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Periodical publishing--Services

Collections: History, Entire Library

...still ruled. The Africans were pressing for...lifestyle. While in East Africa, I was sending back stories to be substituted in the South African edition of Drum...violence in South Africa could be stopped...and particularly in Africa itself. New African is primarily a magazine by Africans for Africans--written...choose and write the story of the month, whether...
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And Now ... Positive Africa: As Explored in the Preceding Pages, the Endemic Western Media Stereotyping of Africa Has Reinforced and Crystallised an Image of the Continent So Pervasive and Profound That Westerners Just Believe Africa Has Intractable Problems. in Concluding This Special Extended Cover Story, Our Deputy Editor, Regina Jere-Malanda, Points to Where the Western Media Fails to Look-Positive Africa

Magazine article by Regina Jere-Malanda; New African, June 2008

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Africa--International relations, Africa--Portrayals, Civilization, Western--Social aspects, Continents--Portrayals, Western culture--Social aspects

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...This Special Extended Cover Story, Our Deputy Editor, Regina...self-understanding" about Africa they have derived from their...offered an alternative view of Africa. Positive Africa is dry news, and dry news...acronym was coined by an African, the Nigerian journalist...OMITTED No one else, but Africans ourselves, have the duty...others to tell us our own stories, or had parroted what others...

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Newspaper Articles on: (africa OR african) AND (folklore OR folktales OR stories)

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African King Is a True Geordie; Ghana Seems like a Million Miles Away, but a Tyneside Entrepreneur and Tribal Chief Is Bridging the Gap between West Africa and the North East. He Talks to HOLLY POYNTON Cover Story

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), October 20, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

African King Is a True Geordie; Ghana...Bridging the Gap between West Africa and the North East. He Talks to HOLLY POYNTON Cover Story. Byline: HOLLY POYNTON WHEN...the plunge and go to the West African country of Ghana as a volunteer...After an eight-month stay in Africa, John was so inspired by his...
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AWORLD AWAY FROM THECUP; How Is It Possible to Report on African Famine in Human Terms We Can Understand? Chris Stewart Went from Pop Group Genesis to Selling Millions of Acclaimed Travel Books - His Unique Perspective on the Looming Disaster in Niger Brings Home the Enormity of What Should Be the Biggest Story in Africa This Summer

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 20, 2010

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Books

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Is It Possible to Report on African Famine in Human Terms We Can...What Should Be the Biggest Story in Africa This Summer. Crossing the...too - lovely black-andwhite African goats which have long ago given...landlocked Muslim nation in Western Africa, 80 per cent of which lies...
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A World Away from the Cup; How Is It Possible to Report on African Famine in Human Terms We Can Understand? Chris Stewart Went from Pop Group Genesis to Selling Millions of Acclaimed Travel Books - His Unique Perspective on the Looming Disaster in Niger Brings Home the Enormity of What Should Be the Biggest Story in Africa This Summer; It's 48[degrees

Newspaper article; June 20, 2010

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Books

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Is It Possible to Report on African Famine in Human Terms We Can...What Should Be the Biggest Story in Africa This Summer; Its 48degreesc...lovely black-and-white African goats which have long ago given...landlocked Muslim nation in western Africa, 80pc of which lies within...
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Christopher Set for First Official Trip to Africa: Will Visit Five 'Success Stories'

Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, September 30, 1996

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Africa, Christopher, Warren

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Will visit five success stories by Ben Barber Africa has long been called the forgotten...Tanzania, Angola and South Africa is to discuss with our African partners what we see as progress...assistant secretary of state for Africa. "We will discuss concerns...The center is a sign that "Africans are not just throwing up hands...
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Namibia Stands as U.N. Success Story in Africa: Nujoma Takes Reconciliation Path in Power

Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, June 13, 1996

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Africa, Namibia, Nujoma, Sam, South West Africa People's Organization, United Nations

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...annexation of its South-West Africa holdings. The United Nations denied the request, but South Africa went ahead anyway to draw the...the right to sit in the South African Parliament. From then on...general struggle in southern Africa against apartheid and, because...DEMOCRATIC ROLL Namibia a success story AREA: 318,260 square miles...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (africa OR african) AND (folklore OR folktales OR stories)

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Folktale

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

FOLKTALE general term for...The telling of stories appears to be...Even the forms folktales take are demonstrably...categories of folktales. Legends and...Godiva). These stories are related as...imaginary beasts in folklore ; elf ; fairy...Thompson, The Folktale (1946); V. O. Binner, American Folktales (1966) and International...A Treasury of African Folklore (1975...
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South African Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE literary works written in South Africa or written by South Africans living in other countries...and language groups, South Africa has a distinctive literature in many African languages as well as Afrikaans...pseudonym Sangiro wrote nature stories. Uys Krige was extremely...Schreiner , author of The Story of an African Farm (1883...
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African Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...African languages ; South African literature . Oral literature, including stories, dramas, riddles, histories...presentation and oratory. Folktale tellers use call-response...music. Some of the first African writings to gain attention...or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), which described...and the slave trade. As Africans became literate in their...cent. writers from western Africa have used newspapers to...
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Story, Joseph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

STORY, JOSEPH 1779 1845, American...the most important opinions Story wrote for the Supreme Court...law raised in state cases. Story expressed his strong antislavery...ordered the repatriation to Africa of blacks brought into U.S...
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Harris, Joel Chandler

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...American short-story writer and humorist...slaves and their folklore. His stories and sketches of...the Uncle Remus stories drew upon African-American folklore and humor and captured...demand for his stories and sketches was...

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