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Mwindo
Nyangan epic
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African oral literature
- In African literature: The epic
…Sunjata and in the epic Mwindo of the Nyanga people of Congo there are major political changes.
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Those epics, as well as Mwindo, dramatize the rite of passage of a society or a culture: the hero’s movement through the familiar stages of the ritual becomes a poetic metaphor for a like movement of the society itself. The tale at the centre of the epic may be as…
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