Originating in a conference organized by Lundt and Marzolph in October, 2012, on storytelling in and about West Africa in Accra, Ghana, this book of 17 essays is the result of the original call
for papers which emphasized twopoints: West African oral tradition is still very much alive; it is of interest to scholars of genres that are termed folk narrative, since stories and history
are more often than not closely related to each other. There are 17 chapters: introduction; still animation as an alternative means of (re)telling Ananse stories to Ghanaian children;
continuity and discontinuity in traditional African narrative ethics; as old Janus saw; storytelling; hiplife music and rap in Ghana as narrative and musical genre; Jan Conny; Ikuum story and
Laimbwe history preserved in Cameroon; recounting history through linguistics; the African animal in oral tradition, Africanism and postcolonialism; telling poetry, narrating songs; Esan
folktales as expression of art and history; dreams, expectations, and experiential realities of street children in Accra, Ghana; folklore; researching the motif of Mami Wata; the saga of an
archive of storytelling in Ghana; travel in folktales and the folktale as travel. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
