Table of Contents

Preface; Editors' introduction; 1. Oral litertaure B. W. Andrzejewski; 2. The rise of written literatures in African languages Stanislaw Pilaszewicz; 3. Literature in Fula D. W. Arnott; 4. Literatures in the Mande and neighbouring languages Gordon Innes; 5. Akan folk literature and the beginnings of writing in Twi Nina Pawlak; 6. Yoruba literature Adeboye Babalola; 7. Literature in the Hausa language Stanislaw Pilaszewicz; 8. Writing and literature in classical Ethiopic Aleksander Ferenc; 9. Ethiopian literature in Amharic Joanna Mantel-Niecko; 10. Somali litertaure B. W. Andrzejewski; 11. Literaures in Cushtic languages other than Somali B. W. Andrzejewski; 12. Malagasy literature in Madagaskar Zefaniasy Bmananjara and Suzy-Andree Ramamonjisoa; 13. Literature in Swahili Rajmund Ohly; 14. Zulu oral tradition and literature Harold Schueb; 15. Mbosa oral and literary traditions Harold Schueb; 16. Southern Sotho literature Josh R. Masiea; 17. Tswana literature Josh R. Masiea; 18. The oral literature of the San and related peoples Roger Hewitt.

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An introduction and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors.