This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore - including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy - this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.
About the Author: Editors:
Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor and Chair in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Partial Listing of Contributors:
Julius Adekunle, Monmouth University Simeon Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia at Athens, USA
Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, USA
Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi, USA
Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, USA
Karin Barber, University of Birmingham, UK
Ragi Bashonga, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Robert Cancel, University of California, San Diego, USA
Raphael d'Abdon, University of South Africa Ernest N. Emenyonu, University of Michigan-Flint, USA
Olawole Famule, University of Wisconsin at Superior, USA
Artisia Green, College of William and Mary, USA
Marame Gueye, East Carolina University, USA
Lee Haring, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA
Kathryn Jones, Swansea University, UK
Kasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond, USA
Russell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University, South Africa Cécile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, USA
Patricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah, University of Mines and Technology, Ghana
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, USA
Besi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USA Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University, USA
Jacomien van Niekerk, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Felicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Rose Opondo, Moi University, Kenya
Félix Ayoh'Omidire, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Lesibana Rafapa, University of South Africa
Relfiwe M. Ramagoshi, University of Pretoria, South Africa Angela M. Farr Schiller, Kennesaw State University, USA
Enongene Mirabeau Sone, Walter Sisulu University, Cameroon
Mobolanle Sotunsa, Babcock University, Nigeria
Rémi Armand Tchokothe, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Antoinette Tidjani Alaou, Niamey University, Niger
Karim Traoré, University of Georgia, USA
Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College, USA
Hein Willemse, University of Pretoria, South Africa Felicity Wood, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
