Oral Literature in Africa (80 page)

Map: The names and country divisions in the main map are those current in the 1960s (copyright John Hunt).

Bibliography

A. General Reference Works

Print references

African Abstracts,
International African Institute (IAI), London, 1950–1972.

Notes and Queries on Anthropology,
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 6
^th
ed., 1951.

Fiches analytiques
(Sciences humaines africanistes), Centre d’analyse et de recherche documentaires pour l’Afrique noire, Paris, 1966-.

International African Institute,
Bibliography of Current Publications
(quarterly in
Africa
.)

ABRAHAM, R. C., Dictionary of Modern Yoruba, London, 1958.

DUIGNAN, P., and GLAZIER, K. M.,
A Checklist of Serials for African Studies,
Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1963.

GASKIN, L. J. P.,
A Select Bibliography of Music in Africa,
International African Institute, London, 1965.

JONES, R. (comp.),
Africa Bibliography Series
(Series A):
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VAN SPANNDONCK, M.,
Practical and Systematical Swahili Bibliography,
Leiden, 1965.

Web references

British Museum Library online catalogues (includes Royal Anthropological Institute Library):
www.britishmuseum.org/research/libraries_and_archives.aspx/

Centre d’études linguistiques et historiques par la tradition orale (CELHTO):
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Centre-d%27Etudes-Linguistiques-et-Historiques-par-Tradition-Orale-%28French%3A-Center-for-Linguistic-%26-Historical-Study-of-Oral-Tradition%3B-Niamey,-Niger%29-%28CELHTO%29.html/

International African Institute:
http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/journal.html/

International African Institute, Africa Bibliography:

http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/biblio.html/
;
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International Library of African Music:
http://www.ru.ac.za/ilam/

International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA):
www.africaisola.org/

International Society for Studies in Oral Tradition (ISSOT):
http://issot.org/

Langage, langues et cultures d’Afrique noire (LLACAN) :
http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/

Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO):
http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/index_en.htm/

Leiden University, Netherlands. Merolla, D., Ameka, F. K. and Dorvlo, K. (eds and contribs), Ewe stories and storytellers from Ghana:
http://www.hum2.leidenuniv.nl/verba-africana/ewe/

—, Merolla, D., Aiello, F. and Brunotti, I. (eds and contribs), Zanzibar: Taarab and Ngoma performances:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/verba-africana/swahili/

—, Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: connecting diasporas and local audiences. Coordinated by D. Merolla and Jansen, J., Leiden University, funded Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research:
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—, Verba Africana series:
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Open Book Publishers/World Oral Literature Project, Cambridge: Oral Literature series (2011- ) (full texts readable online):
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Open Folklore:
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Oral Tradition:
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Royal Anthropological Institute and the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum,
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:
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Scheub, Harold, Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent -
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—, African Films and Resources:
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—, African Story Teller Study Module:
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—, African Studies Collection:
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—, South African Voices:
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World Oral Literature Project (WOLP):
http://www.oralliterature.org/

B. General Bibliography

ABIMBOLA, W., ‘The Odù of Ifá’,
Afr. Notes
[Ibadan] 1, 3, 1964: 6–12.

—, ‘Yoruba oral literature’,
Afr. Notes
[Ibadan] 2, 2–3, 1965: 12–16.

ABRAHAMSSON, H.,
The Origin of Death: Studies in African Mythology,
Uppsala, 1951.

ADALI-MORTTY, G., ‘Ewe Poetry’,
Black Orpheus
4, 1958.

—, ‘Ewe Poetry’,
Okyeame
[Accra] 1, 1960.

ADAM, J., ‘Nouvel extrait du folklore du Haut-Ogooué’ (AEF): Devinettes et fables des Ambede’,
Anthropos
35/6, 1940–41: 131–2.

ADEWA, E. A., ‘Qualities of African Folklore’,
Nigeria
15, 1938.

ALBERT, E. M., ‘“Rhetoric”, “Logic”, and “Poetics” in Burundi: culture patterning of speech behavior’,
Am, antrop
. 66, 6, pt. 2, 1964: 35–54.

ALNAES, K., ‘Nyamayingi’s Song: an analysis of a Konzo Circumcision Song’,
Africa
37, 1967.

AMES, D., ‘Professionals and Amateurs: the musicians of Zaria and Obimo’,
African Arts
1, 2, 1968: 40–5, 80 and 82–4.

ANDRZEJWESKI, B. W., Poetry in Somali Society’,
New Society
1, 24, 1963: 22–24.

—, ‘Emotional bias in the translation and presentation of African royal art’,
Sieera Leone language review
4, 1965: 95–102.

—, ‘The art of the miniature in Somali poetry: an introduction’,
Afr. Language review
6, 1967: 5–16.

—, and GALAAL, M. H. I., ‘A Somali Poetic Combat’,
J. Afr. Languages
2, 1963.

—, and LEWIS, I. M.,
Somali Poetry: an introduction,
OLAL, Oxford, 1964.

—, and MESSENGER, J. C.,
Journal of the Folklore Institute
[Indiana] 4, 2/3, Special Issue on Africa, 1967.

—, PILASZEWICZ, S., and TYLOCH, W. (eds),
Literatures in African Languages: Theoretical Issues and Sample Surveys,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1985.

ANYA-NOA, L., ‘Berceuses beti’,
Effort camerounais
, 1962/3.

—, and ATANGA, S., ‘La sagesse béti dans le chant des oiseaux’,
Abbia
8, 1965: 97–141.

ANYUMBA, H. O., ‘The nyatiti lament songs’,
East Africa past and present
(
Présence africaine
), Paris, 1964: 187–98.

APPIAH, A., and GATES, H. L. (eds),
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
, New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

ARANZADI, I. X.,
La adivinanza en la zona de los Ntumu: tradiciones orales delbosque fang,
Madrid, 1962.

AREWA, E. O., and DUNDES, A., ‘Proverbs and the ethnography of speaking folklore’,
Am. Anthrop
66, 6, 1964: 70–85.

ARMSTRONG, R. G., ‘Talking Drums in the Benue-Cross River Region of Nigeria’,
Phylon
15, 1954.

—, ‘Talking Instruments in West Africa’,
Explorations
4, 1955.

ARNOTT, D. W., ‘Proverbial lore and word-play of the Fulani’,
Africa
27, 1957: 379–96.

ARNOTT, K.,
African Myths and Legends,
London, 1962.

ARNETT, E. J., ‘A Hausa Chronicle’,
J. Afr. Soc
. 9, 1909/10.

—,
The Rise of Sokoto Fulani,
Kano, 1922.

AUSTEN, RALPH A. (ed.),
In Search of Sunjata. The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

AWONA, S., ‘La guerre d’Akoma Mba contre Abo Mama (epopee du mvet)’,
Abbia
9/10, 1965; 12/13, 1966.

BA, A. H., ‘Poésie peule du Macina’,
Présence afr
. 8/9, 1950.

—, and KESTLEOOT, L., ‘Les épopées de l’Ouest africain’,
Abbia
14/15, 1966;
Présence afr
. 58, 1966 (1966
a
).

—, and KESTLEOOT, L., ‘Da Monson et Karta Thiéma’,
Abbia
14/15, 1966 (1966
b
).

BABALOLA, S. A., ‘The characteristic features of outer form of Yoruba Ijala chants’,
Odu
1/2, 1964–5: 33–77.

—,
The content and form of Yoruba Ijala
, OLAL, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

BALANDIER, G., ‘Femmes “possedees” et leurs chants’,
Présence qfr
. 5, 1948.

—, ‘Littératures de l’Afrique et des Amériques noires’, in R. Queneau,
Histoire des littératures
, Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, I, Paris: Gallimard, 1955.

BANG, D. N., ‘In praise of Zulu literature’,
Native teachers journal
30, 1951.

BANSISA, Y., ‘Music in Africa’,
Uganda J.,
1936.

BARBER, KARIN, ‘African-language literatures and postcolonial criticism’,
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—,
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—, (ed.), ‘Audiences in Africa’, special issue,
Africa
67, 3: 347–499, 1997 (1997
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).

—, (ed.),
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, Oxford: James Currey, 1997 (1997
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).

—, (ed.),
Africa’s Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self
, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

—, and FARIAS, P. F. DE MORAES (eds),
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, Birmingham: Birmingham University, 1989.

—, COLLINS, J., and ALAIN, R.,
West African Popular Theatre
, Oxford: James Currey, 1997.

BARKER, W. H., and SINCLAIR, C.,
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, London: Harrap, 1917.

BARRA, G.,
1000 Kikuyu Proverbs,
London, 2nd ed., 1960.

BARRY A. O.,
L’épopée peule du Fuuta Jaloo. De l’éloge à l’amplification rhétorique
, Paris, Karthala, 2011.

BASCOM, W. R.,
‘The sanctions of Ifa divination
’,
JRAI
71, 1941: 43–54.

—, ‘The Relationship of Yoruba folklore to divining’,
JAF
56, 1943: 127–131.

—, ‘Literary style in Yoruba riddles’,
JAF
56, 1949: 1–16.

—, ‘Verbal art’,
JAF
68, 1955: 245–52.

—, ‘Odu Ifa: the order of the figures of Ifa’,
Bull. IFAN
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JAF
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).

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JAF
78, 1965 (1965
b
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BASSET, R.,
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BAUMAN, R., (ed.),
Verbal Art as Performance,
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—, and PAREDES, A. (eds),
Toward new perspectives in folklore
, Texas: Published for the American Folklore Society, University of Texas Press, 1972.

—, and SHERZER, J.,
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
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BAUMANN, H.,
Schöpfund und Urzeit des Menschen im Mythus der afrika-nischen Völker
, Berlin: Reimer, 1936.

—, and WESTERMANN, D.,
Les peuples et les civilisations de l’Afrique
(French tr. by L. Homburger), Paris, 1948.

BAUMGARDT, U.,
Littératures africaines: langue, mode de communication et réprésentations identitaires
, Paris: INALCO, 2002.

—, (forthcoming)
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—, and BORNAND, S., ‘Autour de la performance’,
Cahiers de littérature orale
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—, and BOUNFOUR, A. (eds),
Panorama des littératures africaines: état des lieux et perspectives
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—, and BOUNFOUR, A. (eds),
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, Paris: l’Harmattan, Notes to Literature, Vols 1 and 2, 2004.

—, and DERIVE, J. (eds),
Littératures orales africaines: perspectives théoriques et méthologiques
, Paris: Karthala, 2008.

—, and ROULON-DOKO, P., ‘L’expression de l’espace dans les langues africaines’
Journal des Africanistes
79, 1, 2 (1), 2010.

—, and UGOCHUKWU, F. (eds),
Approches littéraires de l’oralité africaine
, Paris: Karthala, 2005.

BÉART, C.,
Jeux et jouets de l’Quest africain, 2 vols
,
Mem. IFAN
42, 1955.

BEATON, A. C., ‘Some Bari songs’,
Sudan notes
18, 1935; 19, 1936: 277–287.

—, ‘The Poetry of the Bari Dance’,
Sudan Notes
21, 1938.

—,’Fur Dance Songs’,
Sudan Notes
23, 1940.

BEATTIE, J. H. M., ‘Nyoro Personal Names’,
Uganda J
. 21, 1957.

BEIDELMAN, T. O., ‘Hyena and rabbit: a Kaguru representation of matrilineal relations’,
Africa
31, 1961: 250–57.

—, ‘Further adventures of Hyena and Rabbit: the folktale as a sociological model’,
Africa
33, 1963: 54–69.

—, ‘Some Baraguyu Cattle Songs’,
J. Afr. Languages
4, 1965.

BEIER. H. U., ‘Yoruba folk operas’,
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