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place in African oral literature

  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: Heroic poetry

    The Songhai have mabe, the professional bards; they are present at all rites of passage, celebrating, accompanying, and cushioning the transformation being experienced. In Mauritania it is the iggiw (plural iggawen) who creates heroic poetry and who plays the lute while singing the songs of the warriors. The…

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