The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

Editors:Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor and Chair in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.Partial Listing of Contributors:Julius Adekunle, Monmouth UniversitySimeon Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia at Athens, USA Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, USA Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi, USAJoyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, USAKarin Barber, University of Birmingham, UKRagi Bashonga, Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaRobert Cancel, University of California, San Diego, USARaphael d'Abdon, University of South AfricaErnest N. Emenyonu, University of Michigan-Flint, USA Olawole Famule, University of Wisconsin at Superior, USAArtisia Green, College of William and Mary, USAMarame Gueye, East Carolina University, USALee Haring, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USAKathryn Jones, Swansea University, UKKasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond, USARussell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University, South AfricaCécile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, FranceJoseph McLaren, Hofstra University, USAPatricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah, University of Mines and Technology, GhanaMustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, USABesi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USAJuliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University, USAJacomien van Niekerk, University of Pretoria, South AfricaFelicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos, NigeriaRose Opondo, Moi University, KenyaFélix Ayoh'Omidire, Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaGail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, USALesibana Rafapa, University of South AfricaRelfiwe M. Ramagoshi, University of Pretoria, South AfricaAngela M. Farr Schiller, Kennesaw State University, USAEnongene Mirabeau Sone, Walter Sisulu University, CameroonMobolanle Sotunsa, Babcock University, NigeriaRémi Armand Tchokothe, University of Bayreuth, GermanyAntoinette Tidjani Alaou, Niamey University, NigerKarim Traoré, University of Georgia, USAHanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College, USAHein Willemse, University of Pretoria, South AfricaFelicity Wood, University of Fort Hare, South Africa