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Your search for: african AND folklore


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Research Topics on: african folklore

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Books on: african folklore

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Journal Articles on: african folklore

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Magazine Articles on: african folklore

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Newspaper Articles on: african folklore

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    Dr Livingstone and a Case of Wishful Thinking; the Meeting between Stanley, Left, and Livingstone Passed into Folklore
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 5, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Livingstone, David
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Stanley, Left, and Livingstone Passed into Folklore. IT has gone down in history as one of...Henry Stanley after months of searchingthe African bush for the long-lost explorer. Stanley...then an adventurer and explorer of the African continent before finallybecoming a politician...
     
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    Eto'o Has African and World Cup Glory in His Sights
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 10, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Continents, Professional soccer
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...place in African football folklore. He already holds the record...sincerely, that we can win the African Cup of Nations and even the...are no longer the little Africans playing in their corner...Cup in June. Although no African side has yet reached the...has come for a change. The Africans have the right to be taken...be historic for one of the African teams. We have no right...
     
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    Muntu to Perform African Dance Your News
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 23, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Muntu to Perform African Dance Your News. Byline...Chicago, known as the largest African dance company in the United...preserving traditional African dance while creating new...American dance, music and folklore. Muntu entertains with...
     
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    African Art, Music, Dance Come to the Norris
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 14, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    African Art, Music, Dance Come to the...talent now through Nov. 13, with African and black American art, music...interpretations of contemporary and ancient African and black American dance, music and folklore. In the Bantu language of Zimbabwe...
     
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    African Harambee Makes Cuisine Accessible
    Newspaper article by Leah Zeldes; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 16, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Daily Herald Correspondent African Harambee 7537 N. Clark St...764-2200 Cuisine: Pan-African Setting: Bright, spacious...unknown, rich in history and folklore. We know it mainly from books...rarely touched on how native Africans dined, and then most unrealistically...area restaurants serving African fare seem nearly as unknowable...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african folklore

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    Folktale
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...mythology ; monsters and imaginary beasts in folklore ; elf ; fairy ; goblin ; gremlin ; troll...1974); H. Courlander, A Treasury of African Folklore (1975), A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore (1976), and The Tigers Whisker and Other...
     
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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

    ...gained firsthand knowledge of black slaves and their folklore. His stories and sketches of the South were originally...former slave, the Uncle Remus stories drew upon African-American folklore and humor and captured the authentic life, character...
     
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    Frobenius, Leo
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...established a noted collection of facsimiles of prehistoric paintings and engravings. He also dealt with living African cultures and their folklore. He wrote The Voice of Africa (tr. 1913) and was coauthor (in English) of Prehistoric Rock Pictures...
     
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    Bahamas, The
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Inagua (see Inagua ). The population is primarily of African and mixed African and European descent; some 12% is of European heritage...and purple coral as well as rich local color and folklore, has made the Bahamas one of the most popular resorts...
     
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    Suriname
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...cultivation possible. The people are largely of South Asian or mixed African and European ancestry; there is a significant Indonesian minority...1951); M. J. Herskovits and F. J. Herskovits, Suriname Folklore (1937, repr. 1969); R. A. L. Hoefte, Suriname (1990...
     

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