Topic
Storytelling
African storytelling transmits myths through griot narratives, folk tales, and ritual speech—research on how oral tradition preserves and shapes cultural beliefs.
Literature
African Mythology in Fiction: Why the New Wave Isn't New
In 1938, a schoolteacher in western Nigeria published a novel in Yoruba about a hunter who walks into a forest thick with spirits and does not come home the same man.
Folklore
African Mythology and Oral Tradition: Reading the Form
There is a question that comes near the end of almost every reading. A hand goes up somewhere in the middle rows, and someone asks the novelist where the magic came from — as though African mythology…