The oral history and literature of the Wolof people of Waalo, northern Senegal
Subtitle: the master of the word (griot) in the Wolof tradition
By: Samba Diop.
Series: African studies ;; v. 36; African studies (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;; v. 36.
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng; ara; fre; wol
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Folk literature, Wolof.; Wolof (African people) -- Folklore.; Wolof (African people) -- History.; Oral tradition -- Senegal.; Folklore -- Senegal -- Performance.; Griots -- Senegal.
Description: "This collection of essays spans a 15 year period of close observation of Zambia, and its first leader, Kenneth Kaunda. It begins with the 1984 Zambian elections and continues to Kaunda's accusation of treason by the Chiluba government in 1998. An eyewitness series of events as they happened, the volume is a contemporary chronicle not paralleled elsewhere."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[357]-389).
"The epic tale that constitutes the core of this study is the first attempt of a literary reconstruction of the foundation myth of the Wolof, the myth of Njaajaan Njaay as performed by a griot, Sèq Ñan ... The second text with which this study is concerned is a genealogy of the rulers of Waalo, also from the lips of Sèq Ñan"--Introd.
English, French, and Wolof.