Offers a complete, deep, and innovative analysis of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and among Africans in the diaspora. Asses the current and historical dynamics between oral traditions and folklore, illustrating how the nature of oral transmission of cultural heritage and folklore ...
Tag: Nduka Otiono
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Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change (ed. Ignatius Chukwumah)
This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertis ing, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject.
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L’expression de la parentalité dans les arts de la parole en Afrique (dir. Cécile Leguy)
Réservée au départ au vocabulaire spécialisé de la psychologie et des sciences sociales, la notion de parentalité est largement utilisée aujourd’hui pour désigner les fonctions et les pratiques parentales.
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Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text (eds. Nduka Otiono & Chiji Akoma)
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.