Siphokazi Jonas is a South African poet, playwright and actor ... and I really wanted to bring the energy of oral literature and storytelling to the text. The adventure of intsomi in particular ...

Oral tradition says the first Muslims appeared ... Some would argue that both Islam and Christianity are indigenous African religions. Not everyone shares this view. Certainly the first Muslim ...

African Americans would later mix and morph ... "We are a society of oral tradition. Only the djeli knows that history, and the Kouyatés are the original djeli. They preserve the collective ...

The Aka Pygmies living in the south-west region of the Central African Republic have developed a distinctive vocal musical tradition, which involves a complex type of contrapuntal polyphony based on ...