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This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

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Editors: Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor and Chair in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Partial Listing of Contributors: Julius Adekunle, Monmouth University Simeon Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia at Athens, USA  Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, USA  Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi, USA Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, USA Karin Barber, University of Birmingham, UK Ragi Bashonga, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Robert Cancel, University of California, San Diego, USA Raphael d’Abdon, University of South Africa Ernest N. Emenyonu, University of Michigan–Flint, USA  Olawole Famule, University of Wisconsin at Superior, USA Artisia Green, College of William and Mary, USA Marame Gueye, East Carolina University, USA Lee Haring, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA Kathryn Jones, Swansea University, UK Kasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond, USA Russell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University, South Africa Cécile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, USA Patricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah, University of Mines and Technology, Ghana Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, USA Besi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USA Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University, USA Jacomien van Niekerk, University of Pretoria, South Africa Felicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos, Nigeria Rose Opondo, Moi University, Kenya Félix Ayoh'Omidire, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Lesibana Rafapa, University of South Africa Relfiwe M. Ramagoshi, University of Pretoria, South Africa Angela M. Farr Schiller, Kennesaw State University, USA Enongene Mirabeau Sone, Walter Sisulu University, Cameroon Mobolanle Sotunsa, Babcock University, Nigeria Rémi Armand Tchokothe, University of Bayreuth, Germany Antoinette Tidjani Alaou, Niamey University, Niger Karim Traoré, University of Georgia, USA Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College, USA Hein Willemse, University of Pretoria, South Africa Felicity Wood, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

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