Protecting Africa’s Indigenous Literary Knowledge
摘要
As another intellectual domain in an oral society, it is a matter of consensus that Africa’s Indigenous literary knowledge is oral and debatable whether it is also written. This chapter explores the framework through which numerous authors; playwrights, poets; novelists; and textbook writers who have thrived, grown, transformed, and materialised Africa’s oral literature are considered agents and representatives of different communities whose oral traditions are the foundation and scaffolding of their work.