THIS study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the
awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning
writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives,
philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology,
for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and
other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in
recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived
to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or
indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new
literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which
discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and
identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy (cultural and
biological) studies in African contexts.