Oral Epics from Africa
Subtitle: Vibrant Voices from a Vast Continent (African Epic Series)
Contributors: John William Johnson (Editor); Thomas A. Hale (Editor); Stephen Paterson Belcher (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780253332578
Subjects: Folklore; Oral history; African Literature; Oral And Folk Literature; Literary Criticism; African Languages; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Africa; African; Epic literature, African
First sentence: THESE EXCERPTS ARE FROM TWO NARRATIVES about the rise and fall of the Ghana Empire, known locally as Wagadu because the first city was the home of the Wago, one of the three main peoples who claim descent from the empire and the group that is most closely associated with its founding.