A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN ORAL TRADITIONS

Required works of African literature for graduate students in the Department of African Languages and Literature as a part of their preparation for writing the Department’s PhD preliminary examinations.

Compiled by Harold Scheub, January 12, 1993

[This list falls into two categories: (a) works that are composed entirely of texts of African oral tales, and (b) works that have sections containing African oral tales. In the latter case, students are expected to read those sections containing the texts of tales.]

1. Arabian Nights, The. Tr. Husain Haddawy. (1990)

2. Ba, Amadou Hampate, and Lilyan Kesteloot. Kaidara (1969)

3. Babalola, S. A. The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala (1966)

4. Biebuyck, Daniel. Hero and Chief, Epic Literature from the Banyanga, Zaire Republic (1978)

5. Biebuyck, Daniel, and Kahombo C. Mateene. The Mwindo Epic (1969)

6. Bleek, Dorothea F. The Mantis and His Friends [1923]

7. Callaway, Henry. Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus (1868)

8. Chatelain, Heli. Folk-Tales of Angola (1894)

9. Chimenti, Elisa. Tales and Legends from Morocco (1965)

10. Clark, John Pepper. The Ozidi Saga (1977)

11. Cope, Trevor. Izibongo, Zulu Praise-poems (1968)

12. Cosentino, Donald. Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers (1982)

13. Coupez, Andre, and Th. Kamanzi. Litterature de cour au Rwanda (1970)

14. Damane, M., and P. B. Sanders. Lithoko, Sotho Praise-poems (1974)

15. Dampierre, Eric de. Poetes nzakara (1963)

16. Deng, Francis Mading. The Dinka and Their Songs (1973)

17. Doke, Clement M. Lamba Folk-Lore (1927)

18. Edgar, Frank. Litafina Tatsuniyoyi Na Hausa (1911-1913) Translated from Hausa by Neil Skinner: Hausa Tales and Traditions (1977)

19. Ennis, Merlin. Umbundu, Folktales from Angola (1962)

20. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Zande Trickster (1967)

21. Finnegan, Ruth. Limba Stories and Story-telling (1967).

22. Fortier, Joseph. Dragon et sorcieres, Contes et moralites du pays Mbai (1974)

23. Fortier, Joseph. Le Mythe et les contes de Sou en pays Mbai-Moissala (1967)

24. Forbenius, Leo, and Douglas C. Fox. African Genesis (1937)

25. Galley, Micheline. Badr az-zin, et six contes algeriens (1971)

26. Goody, Jack. The Myth of the Bagre (1972)

27. Herskovits, Melville J., and Frances S. Dahomean Narrative (1958)

28. Hodza, A. C. Shona Praise Poetry (1979)

29. Innes, Gordon. Sunjata, Three Mandinka Versions (1974)

30. Jacottet, Edouard. The Treasury of Ba-Suto Lore (1908)

31. Kabine, Sissoko. La Prise de Dionkoloni (1975)

32. Lacroix, Pierre-Francis. Poesie peule de l'adamawa (1965)

33. Mbiti, John S. Akamba Stories (1966)

34. Morris, H. F. The Heroic Recitations of the Bahima of Ankole (1964)

35. Mufuta, Patrice. Le Chant kasala des luba (1968)

36. Norris, H. T. Shinqiti Folk Literature and Song (1968)

37. Pepper, Herbert. Un Mvet de Zwe Nguema (1972)

38. Rattray, R. S. Akan-Ashanti Folk-tales (1930)

39. Ross, Mabel H., and Barbara K. Walker. "On Another Day...," Tales Told among the Nkundo of Zaire (1979)

40. Samatar, Said S. Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism (1982)

41. Scheub, Harold. The African Storyteller (1990)

42. Seitel, Peter. See So That We May See (1980)

43. Seydou, Christine. La Geste de Ham-Bodedio ou Hama le Rouge (1976)

44. Seydou, Christine. Silamaka et Poullori, recit epique peul raconte par Tinguidji (1972)

45. Shack, William A., and Habte-Mariam Marcos. Gods and Heroes, Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia. (1974)

46. Sow, Alfa Ibrahim. La Femme, la Vache, la Foi (1966)

47. Sow, Alfa Ibrahim. La Filon du bonheur eternel (1971)

48. Steere, Edward. Swahili Tales (1869)

49. Thomas, Jacqueline M. C. Contes, proverbes, devinettes ou enigmes, chants et prieres ngbaka-ma'bo (1970)

50. Zenani, Nongenile Masithathu. The World and the Word (1992

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