Oxford Library of African Literature

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The Oxford Library of African Literature ( Oxford Library for African literature ) is an English-language scientific book series with indigenous poetry and prose of Africa , the General Editor Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College ) was , and which was published by Clarendon Press , Oxford . The Africanists Wilfred Howell Whiteley (1924–1972) and Godfrey Lienhardt (1921–1993) were Assistant Editors. Each volume consists of an English translation of a text or texts of cultural value and interest, as well as an introductory essay and notes by a scholar who is familiar with the language, country and people. Attempts have been made to cover a relatively wide range of African peoples. The series was intended to cover a wide range, including texts from Ghana , Tanganyika , Northern Rhodesia , Bechuanaland and Sudan . The series appeared from 1964 through the late 1970s.

The following overview does not claim to be up-to-date or complete:

selection

  • Shona praise poetry / AC Hodza. 1979
  • Wisdom from the Nile: A Collection of Folk-Stories from the Northern and Central Sudan / Ahmed al Shahi. 1978
  • The Xhosa Ntsomi / Harold Scheub. 1975
  • Gods and heroes: oral traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia / William A. Shack. 1974
  • Damane, M. Lithoko: Sotho Praise Poems. 1974
  • The Dinka and their songs / Francis Mading Deng. 1973
  • Saharan myth and saga / Harry Thirlwall Norris. 1972
  • Heroic poetry of the Basotho / Daniel P. Kunene. 1971
  • Oral Literature in Africa / Ruth Finnegan. 1970
  • Literature de cour au Rwanda / A. Coupez. 1970
  • Shinqîtî folk literature and song / Harry Thirlwall Norris. 1968
  • Izibongo (English and Zulu). Zulu praise poems. Collected by James Stuart. Translated by Daniel Malcolm. Edited with introductions and annotations by Trevor Cope. 1968
  • The medicine man / Hasani Bin Ismail. 1968
  • The Zande Trickster / Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard. 1967
  • Limba stories and story-telling / Ruth Finnegan. 1967
  • A selection of Hausa stories / HAS Johnston. 1966
  • Akamba stories / John Samuel Mbiti . 1966
  • The content and form of Yoruba ijala / S. Adeboye Oladele Babalola. 1966
  • The glorious victories of Āmda Ṣeyon, King of Ethiopia / Āmda Ṣeyon. 1965
  • Praise-poems of Tswana chiefs / Isaac Schapera . 1965
  • A selection of African prose / Wilfred Howell Whiteley. 1964 (Vol. 1: Traditional oral texts. Vol. 2: Written Prose)
  • Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, Ioan Myrddin Lewis: Somali Poetry. An Introduction. 1964

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ He himself contributed to the series The Zande Trickster .
  2. ↑ cambridge.org - accessed November 6, 2018
  3. ↑ SUB GÖ

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