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Finnegan, Ruth (2012). Oral literature in Africa (rev.ed.). World Oral Literature series, 1. Cambridge: Open Book.
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Abstract
An account, based on primary and secondary material from a wide range of African, European and transhistorical and interdisciplinary sources, of the knowledge and analysis of the extensive unwritten literatures of Africa, with an updating new introduction, references and illustrations together with supplementary audio material on the web. Widely regarded as the classic text on the subject it is now for the first time free to read and download in its entirety