Since around the fourteenth century this heroic narrative has been handed down the generations orally within the Mongo People, and has now been published in Eng

Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the huma

"Belcher's volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that deserve

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry. The leading ques

NEW BLACK AND AFRICAN WRITING Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poe