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Goss, Linda; Goss, Clay – 1995
This book features more than 70 stories about the wide range of the Black experience, including traditional tales from Africa and the West Indies. Collected in the book are family stories and moral fables, ghost stories and tales rich in humor, as well as raps and rhymes, memoirs and songs, recipes and riddles, and stories and poems about freedom,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Authors, Black Culture, Black Literature
Peer reviewedWest, Michael J.; Donato, Richard – Foreign Language Annals, 1995
Describes an initiative to incorporate folktales and legends from francophone West Africa into a college-level advanced French literary and cultural studies course. Students recorded their reactions to various texts taken from France and West Africa in reading journals. Analysis of the journals shows that critical competencies in Western culture…
Descriptors: African Culture, Course Objectives, Cultural Awareness, Folk Culture
Direct linkGlasgow, Jacqueline N., Ed.; Rice, Linda J., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2007
In today's interconnected and global society, socially responsive learning is an integral part of educational excellence. This book encourages socially responsive learning by showing the reader how to use traditional African folk tales and quality children's books, young adult novels, classic literature, and film media about Africa as the mode for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classics (Literature), Novels, Oral Tradition
Gale, Steven H. – 1995
Traditionally, an important function of folktales in West Africa has been to educate, as the older generation imparts knowledge to younger members of the family, tribe, societal unit, or ethnic group both informally in everyday life and more formally within the context of the bush schools. This anthology of West African folk literature offers more…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Studies, Anthologies, Area Studies
