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Title: African Oral Traditions


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AfricanOralTraditions
By Devon Kelley, Jamie Fletcher, and Ali Paris
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Introduction
Stories in Ancient Africa
  • Told Orally
  • Explained, Entertained and Taught Ethical and
    Moral Principles
  • Moral in A Cow Tail Switch a man is not really
    dead until he is forgotten

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Interesting Facts
  • Human cultures in the world create stories
    (narratives) as a way of making sense of the world
  • African society value good stories and
    storytellers
  • African stories end with a meaningful moral
  • African folktales are not written, but verbally
    passed down in the African cultures for many
    generations

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A Cow Tail Switch
  • The main characters are Ogaloussa, his wife and
    sons
  • Ogaloussa goes hunting in forest and never
    returns
  • At first, his sons miss him, but after a
    while,they go on with their lives
  • Ogaloussas wife gives birth to another son,
    Puli, who asks for his father
  • This prompts the sons to search and discover
    their father was dead
  • The sons put life back into their father
  • During the celebration of his return, Ogaloussa
    kills a cow and makes a beautiful switch
  • He gives the switch to Puli saying,to the son
    who remembered me.

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Connection
  • Excellent example of a ethnic African story
  • Moral Man is not dead until he is forgotten.

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THE END
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