ABSTRACT
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |28 pages
A
entry |1 pages
African Americans
entry |1 pages
Akan/Ashanti
entry |1 pages
Algeria
entry |3 pages
Ancestors
entry |1 pages
Angola (Republic of Angola)
entry |3 pages
Animals in African Folklore
entry |4 pages
Arabic Folk Literature of North Africa
entry |7 pages
Architecture
entry |1 pages
Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University)
entry |7 pages
Astronomy
entry |1 pages
Azande
letter |54 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Bachama
entry |6 pages
Banjo: African Roots
entry |2 pages
Bao
entry |2 pages
Bascom, William R. (1912–1981)
entry |6 pages
Basketry: Africa
entry |1 pages
Basketry, African American
entry |1 pages
Batammaliba
entry |5 pages
Beadwork
entry |1 pages
Bemba
entry |1 pages
Benin (People's Republic of Benin)
entry |1 pages
Benin Kingdom
entry |1 pages
Berbers
entry |7 pages
Birth and Death Rituals Among the Gikuyu
entry |2 pages
Blacksmiths: Dar Zaghawa of the Sudan
entry |4 pages
Blacksmiths: Mande of Western Africa
entry |1 pages
Board Games
entry |7 pages
Body Arts: Body Decoration in Africa
entry |3 pages
Body Arts: African American Arts of the Body
entry |4 pages
Body Arts: Hair Sculpture
entry |1 pages
Botswana
entry |1 pages
Brazil
entry |1 pages
Burkina Faso
entry |1 pages
Burundi
letter |71 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Call-And-Response
entry |2 pages
Callaway, Bishop Henry H. (1817–1890)
entry |1 pages
Cameroon (United Republic of Cameroon)
entry |1 pages
Cape Verde (Republic of Cape Verde)
entry |6 pages
Cardinal Directions
entry |4 pages
Caribbean Verbal Arts
entry |6 pages
Carnivals and African American Cultures
entry |5 pages
Cartoons
entry |8 pages
Central African Folklore: Overview
entry |1 pages
Central African Republic (C.A.R.)
entry |4 pages
Ceramics
entry |2 pages
Ceramics and Gender
entry |1 pages
Chad (Republique Du Tchad)
entry |1 pages
Checkers
entry |3 pages
Chief
entry |2 pages
Children's Folklore: Iteso Songs of War Time
entry |2 pages
Children's Folklore: Kunda Songs
entry |5 pages
Children's Folklore: Ndebele
entry |1 pages
Chokwe
entry |1 pages
Classiques Africains
entry |5 pages
Color Symbolism: The Akan of Ghana
entry |1 pages
Comoros (Comoros Federal Islamic Republic)
entry |4 pages
Concert Parties
entry |1 pages
Congo (Republic of The Congo)
entry |2 pages
Contemporary Bards: Hausa Verbal Artists
entry |4 pages
Cosmology
entry |1 pages
Cote D'Ivoire (Republic of Cote D'Ivoire)
entry |2 pages
Crowley, Daniel J. (1921–1998)
letter |55 pages
D
entry |6 pages
Dance: Overview with a Focus on Namibia
entry |3 pages
Decorated Vehicles (Focus on Western Nigeria)
entry |1 pages
Democratic Republic of Congo (Formerly Republic of Zaire)
entry |5 pages
Dialogic Performances: Call-and-Response in African Narrating
entry |3 pages
Diaspora: African Communities in the United Kingdom
entry |4 pages
Diaspora: African Communities in the United States
entry |5 pages
Diaspora: African Traditions in Brazil
entry |2 pages
Diaspora: Sea Islands of the United States
entry |1 pages
Diaspora
entry |1 pages
Dilemma Tales
entry |1 pages
Dinka
entry |2 pages
Divination: Overview
entry |2 pages
Divination: Household Divination among the Kongo
entry |3 pages
Divination: IfÁ Divination in Cuba
entry |1 pages
Djibouti (Republic of Djibouti)
entry |1 pages
Dogon
entry |3 pages
Dolls and Toys
entry |3 pages
Drama: Anang Ibibio Traditional Drama
entry |3 pages
Draughts (Jeu De Dames; Checkers)
entry |4 pages
Dreams
entry |3 pages
Dress
letter |37 pages
E
entry |3 pages
East African Folklore: Overview
entry |6 pages
Education: Folklore in Schools
entry |1 pages
Egypt
entry |7 pages
Electronic Media and Oral Traditions
entry |3 pages
Epics: Overview
entry |2 pages
Epics: Liongo Epic of the Swahili
entry |5 pages
Epics: West African Epics
entry |1 pages
Equatorial Guinea (Republic of Equatorial Guinea)
entry |1 pages
Eritrea (State of Eritrea)
entry |2 pages
Esthetics: Baule Visual Arts
entry |1 pages
Esthetics
entry |2 pages
Ethiopia (People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)
entry |1 pages
Evans-Pritchard, Sir Edward Evan (1902–1973)
entry |2 pages
Evil Eye
entry |1 pages
Ewe
letter |40 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Falasha
entry |1 pages
Fang
entry |4 pages
Festivals: Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda
entry |18 pages
Films on African Folklore
entry |4 pages
Folktales
entry |2 pages
Folktales of the Bamana
entry |1 pages
Folklore
entry |2 pages
Foodways: Cattle and Sorghum Grain in Jie Cosmology
entry |1 pages
Foodways: Yoruba Food Vendors
entry |6 pages
French Study of African Folklore
entry |1 pages
Frobenius, Leo Viktor (1873–1938)
entry |1 pages
Fulani
letter |46 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Gabon (Gabonese Republic)
entry |1 pages
Gambia, The (Republic of the Gambia)
entry |6 pages
Gender Representations in African Folklore
entry |5 pages
German Study of African Folklore
entry |5 pages
Gestures in African Oral Narrative
entry |2 pages
Ghana (Republic of Ghana)
entry |1 pages
Gikuyu
entry |2 pages
Gossip and Rumor
entry |6 pages
Gourds: Their Uses and Decoration
entry |2 pages
Government Policies Toward Folklore
entry |9 pages
Greetings: A Case Study from the Kerebe
entry |2 pages
Griaule, Marcel (1898–1956)
entry |4 pages
Griots and Griottes
entry |1 pages
Guinea (Republic of Guinea)
entry |1 pages
Guinea-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)
letter |26 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Hausa
entry |1 pages
Haya
entry |2 pages
Healing and Spirit Possession in SÃo TomÉ and PrÍncipe
entry |1 pages
Hero
entry |2 pages
Hero in Sukuma Prose Narratives
entry |4 pages
Herskovits, Melville J. (1895– 1963)
entry |1 pages
History and Cultural Identity: The Ashanti
entry |3 pages
History and Cultural Identity: The Chokwe
entry |1 pages
History
entry |2 pages
History and Folklore: The Luba
entry |3 pages
History and Religious Rituals: Bemba Traditions
entry |2 pages
Housing: African American Traditions
entry |4 pages
Hunting: Aka Net Hunting
entry |1 pages
Hutu
letter |29 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Ibibio
entry |1 pages
Identity and Folklore: Kunda
entry |3 pages
Ideophone
entry |1 pages
IGBO
entry |1 pages
IJO
entry |1 pages
Indexes: Motif and Tale-Type
entry |4 pages
Indian Ocean Islands: The Process of Creolization
entry |2 pages
Initiation
entry |10 pages
Institutional Study of African Folklore
entry |2 pages
Insults and Ribald Language
entry |6 pages
Islamic Brotherhoods: Baye Fall and Yengu, A Mouride Spirituality
entry |1 pages
ITESO
letter |14 pages
J
entry |3 pages
Japanese Study Of African Folklore
entry |2 pages
Jews of Ethiopia
entry |4 pages
Jokes and Humor
entry |5 pages
Joking Relationships
letter |5 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Kamba
entry |1 pages
Kenya (Republic of Kenya)
entry |1 pages
Kongo
entry |3 pages
Kwanzaa
letter |35 pages
L
entry |4 pages
Languages
entry |6 pages
Languages: Africanisms in the Americas
entry |1 pages
Lega
entry |6 pages
Legends: East Africa
entry |1 pages
LESOTHO (Kingdom of Lesotho)
entry |6 pages
Libation
entry |1 pages
LIBERIA (Republic of Liberia)
entry |5 pages
Libraries
entry |1 pages
Libya
entry |1 pages
Limba
entry |3 pages
Linguistics and African Verbal Arts
entry |1 pages
Luba
entry |1 pages
Lugbara
entry |1 pages
Luhyia
entry |1 pages
Lunda
entry |1 pages
Luo
letter |133 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Maasai
entry |1 pages
Madagascar (Democratic Republic of Madagascar)
entry |8 pages
Maghrib (Northwestern North Africa) Folklore: Overview
entry |6 pages
Maghrib: Algeria
entry |4 pages
Maghrib: Berber Peoples: Their Language and Folklore
entry |1 pages
Makonde
entry |1 pages
Malagasy
entry |6 pages
Malagasy Folklore and Its Study
entry |1 pages
Malawi
entry |1 pages
Mali (Republic of Mali)
entry |1 pages
Malinke
entry |4 pages
Mami Wata in Central Africa
entry |3 pages
Mancala
entry |1 pages
Mangbetu
entry |3 pages
Maqalat: Concepts of Folklore in the Sudan
entry |6 pages
Masks and Masquerades
entry |6 pages
Masquerading By Women: Ejagham
entry |1 pages
Mauritania (Islamic Republic of Mauritania)
entry |1 pages
Mauritius (Republic of Mauritius)
entry |6 pages
Medicine: Overview
entry |2 pages
Medicine: Folk Medicine of the Hausa
entry |6 pages
Medicine: Indigenous Therapeutic Systems in Western Kenya
entry |1 pages
Mende
entry |4 pages
Metallurgy and Folklore
entry |1 pages
Morocco
entry |1 pages
Mozambique (People'S Republic of Mozambique)
entry |6 pages
Music in Africa: Overview
entry |4 pages
Music: African Musical Traditions in the United States
entry |4 pages
Music: Arab and Jewish Music of North Africa
entry |3 pages
Music: Atalaku of Congo (Zaire)
entry |3 pages
Music and Dance Styles of the Ewe
entry |3 pages
Music and Dance: Uganda
entry |9 pages
Music: Musical Innovation in African Independent Churches
entry |4 pages
Music: Popular Dance Music in Congo (Zaire)
entry |1 pages
Music: Soukouss
entry |3 pages
Music: West African “Highlife”
entry |8 pages
Musical Instruments: Focus on Namibia
entry |4 pages
Myths: Overview
entry |8 pages
Myths: Mythology and Society in Madagascar: A TaÑAla Example
entry |1 pages
Myths: Myths of Origin and Sculpture: The Makonde
letter |29 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Namibia
entry |2 pages
Naming Customs in Africa
entry |3 pages
Naming Customs, East Africa
entry |4 pages
Narration and Verbal Discourse: The Lugbara of Uganda
entry |1 pages
Ndebele
entry |1 pages
Ngbaka Ma'Bo
entry |1 pages
Niger (Republic of Niger)
entry |1 pages
Nigeria (Federal Republic of Nigeria)
entry |1 pages
Nilotic Peoples
entry |1 pages
North African (Western Section) Folklore
entry |9 pages
North African (Eastern Section) Folklore: Overview
entry |4 pages
Northeastern African Folklore (The Horn): Overview
entry |3 pages
Nsibidi: An Indigenous Writing System
entry |1 pages
Nuer
entry |1 pages
Nyanga
letter |60 pages
O
entry |4 pages
Okyeame
entry |2 pages
Old Man and Old Woman
entry |12 pages
Oral Literary Research in Africa
entry |8 pages
Oral Literature: Issues of Definition and Terminology
entry |2 pages
Oral Narrative
entry |2 pages
Oral Performance and Literature
entry |2 pages
Oral Performance Dynamics
entry |2 pages
Oral Traditions
entry |4 pages
Oral Traditions and Oral Historiography
entry |1 pages
Oral Tradition: Oral History and Zambia
entry |2 pages
Orality and Literacy in Africa
entry |3 pages
Oratory: An Introduction
entry |5 pages
Oratory: Political Oratory and Its Use of Traditional Verbal Art
entry |2 pages
Origins and Culture Heroes: Nilotic Peoples
entry |2 pages
Orisha
entry |2 pages
Orphan Motif in African Folklore
entry |2 pages
The Oxford Library of African Literature
entry |3 pages
Oyo Tunji: A Yoruba Community in the Usa
letter |100 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Palaver (Kinzonzi) in Kongo Life
entry |3 pages
Performance in Africa
entry |12 pages
Performance Studies and African Folklore Research
entry |7 pages
Performing Arts of SÃO TomÉ and PrÍNcipe
entry |1 pages
Performing Arts of the Tiv
entry |6 pages
Performing Arts of Uganda
entry |2 pages
Personal Experience Narratives
entry |4 pages
Pidgin and Creole Languages
entry |2 pages
Polyrhythm
entry |7 pages
Popular Culture
entry |8 pages
Portuguese Study of African Folklore
entry |6 pages
Praise Poetry: Southern African Praise Poetry
entry |4 pages
Praise Poetry: Praise Poetry of the Basotho
entry |2 pages
Praise Poetry: Praise Poetry of the Xhosa
entry |4 pages
Praise Poetry: Xhosa Praise Poetry for President Mandela
entry |1 pages
Praise Poetry: Yoruba OrÍKÌ
entry |4 pages
Prose and Poetry of the Fulani
entry |6 pages
Prose Narratives: The Maasai
entry |2 pages
Prose Narratives: The Mende
entry |2 pages
Prose Narratives: The Tabwa
entry |5 pages
Prose Narratives and Performance: The Tuareg
entry |2 pages
Proverbs
entry |2 pages
Proverbs: Sesotho Proverbs
entry |5 pages
Puppetry
letter |9 pages
Q
entry |9 pages
Queen Mothers
letter |36 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Radio and Television Drama
entry |5 pages
Rastafari: A Marginalized People
entry |1 pages
Rattray, R.S. (1881–1938)
entry |5 pages
Religion: African Traditional Religion
entry |4 pages
Religions: Afro-Brazilian Religions
entry |3 pages
Religious Ceremonies and Festivals: SÃO TomÉ and PrÍNcipe
entry |1 pages
Reunion
entry |2 pages
Riddles
entry |3 pages
Riddles: Sesotho Riddles
entry |7 pages
Ritual Performance
entry |1 pages
Rwanda (Republic of Rwanda)
entry |2 pages
Rwanda: Tales of Genocide
letter |105 pages
S
entry |5 pages
Sahir (Evil Mouth)
entry |1 pages
SAN
entry |5 pages
Santeria in Cuba
entry |1 pages
SÃO TomÉ and PrÍNcipe (Democratic Republic of SÃO TomÉ and PrÍNcipe)
entry |4 pages
Secrecy in African Orature
entry |1 pages
Senegal (Republic of Senegal)
entry |1 pages
Senufo
entry |1 pages
Seychelles
entry |2 pages
Sheng: East African Urban Folk Speech
entry |1 pages
Shona
entry |1 pages
Sierra Leone (Republic of Sierra Leone)
entry |2 pages
Silence in Expressive Behavior
entry |6 pages
Siyar: North African Epics
entry |1 pages
Somalia (Somali Democratic Republic)
entry |1 pages
Songhay
entry |3 pages
Songs for Ceremonies
entry |4 pages
Songs of the Dyula
entry |1 pages
Songye
entry |1 pages
South Africa (Republic of South Africa)
entry |4 pages
South Africa, Oral Traditions
entry |7 pages
Southern African Folklore: Overview
entry |12 pages
Southern African Oral Traditions
entry |4 pages
Southern Africa: Contemporary Forms of Folklore
entry |5 pages
Southern Africa: Shona Folklore
entry |3 pages
Speaking and Nonspeaking Power Objects of the Senufo
entry |3 pages
Spirit Possession Dance in Guyana: Comfa
entry |2 pages
Spirit Possession: Kunda
entry |5 pages
Spirit Possession: Tuareg and Songhay
entry |2 pages
Spirit Possession: West Africa
entry |3 pages
Stories and Storytelling: The Limba
entry |7 pages
Storytellers
entry |1 pages
Sudan
entry |7 pages
Superstitions
entry |1 pages
Supreme Being
entry |3 pages
Surrogate Languages: Alternative Communication
entry |1 pages
Swahili
entry |1 pages
Swazi
entry |1 pages
Swaziland (Kingdom of Swaziland)
letter |63 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Tabwa
entry |1 pages
Tañala
entry |1 pages
Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania)
entry |1 pages
Television
entry |5 pages
Textile Arts and Communication
entry |12 pages
Textiles: African American Quilts, Textiles, and Cloth Charms
entry |1 pages
Theater
entry |6 pages
Theater: African Popular Theater
entry |2 pages
Theater: Duro Ladipo and Yoruba Folk Theater
entry |2 pages
Theater: Popular Theater in Southern Africa
entry |2 pages
Theater: Theater for Development
entry |3 pages
Theater: Yoruba Folk Theater
entry |1 pages
Tigrinya
entry |1 pages
Tiv
entry |1 pages
Togo (Republic of Togo)
entry |2 pages
Tongue Twisters: East Africa
entry |1 pages
Tongue Twisters: Yoruba
entry |2 pages
Touring Performance Groups
entry |7 pages
Tourism and Tourist Arts
entry |2 pages
Translation
entry |4 pages
Tricksters in African Folklore
entry |1 pages
Tricksters: Eshu, the Yoruba Trickster
entry |1 pages
Tricksters: Ture of the Azande
entry |1 pages
Tsonga
entry |1 pages
Tswana
entry |1 pages
Tunisia
entry |1 pages
Tutsi
entry |1 pages
Twa
entry |6 pages
Typology and Performance in the Study of Prose Narratives in Africa
letter |8 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Uganda (Republic of Uganda)
entry |3 pages
Urban Folklore: A Sudanese Example
entry |3 pages
Urban Folklore: The Swahili of Zanzibar
letter |29 pages
V
entry |8 pages
Verbal Arts: African American
entry |6 pages
Verbal Arts: The Ibibio of Southeastern Nigeria
entry |5 pages
Visual and Performance Arts: The Songye
entry |3 pages
Visual Arts: Uli Painting of the Igbo
entry |6 pages
Vodou
entry |1 pages
Voice Disguisers
letter |44 pages
W
entry |3 pages
Wari
entry |4 pages
Water Ethos: The Ijo of the Niger Delta
entry |4 pages
West African Folklore: Overview
entry |1 pages
Western Sahara
entry |1 pages
Western Sudanese Kingdoms
entry |8 pages
Witchcraft, Magic, and Sorcery
entry |4 pages
Women'S Expressive Culture in Africa
entry |4 pages
Women'S Folklore: Eritrea
entry |2 pages
Women'S Folklore: Ghana
entry |3 pages
Women Pop Singers and Broadcast Media in Mali
entry |5 pages
Words and the Dogon
entry |6 pages
Work Songs
entry |1 pages
Writing Systems
letter |3 pages
Y
entry |3 pages
Yards and Gardens, African American Traditions
entry |1 pages
Yoruba
letter |6 pages
Z
entry |1 pages
Zambia (Republic of Zambia)
entry |3 pages
Zar: Spirit Possession in the Sudan
entry |1 pages
Zimbabwe (Republic of Zimbabwe)
entry |1 pages
Zulu
