- Title
- The Sacred Door and other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (Makuchi)
- Creator
- Kaschula, Russell H
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175177
- Identifier
- vital:42550
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.45i2.4743
- Description
- In The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba, Makuchi has collected thirty-three folktales of the Beba people. These stories are presented in English only. The book contains a foreword by well-known oral literature scholar, Isidore Okpewho and a preface by the author. In the foreword, Okpewho states that:“Tales like these need to be retold again and again, because the lessons they yield belong not merely to a long-forgotten historical or so-called primitive past but very much to the present times in which we live”(xi). The book therefore represents a sense of continuity between past and present. Although the tales may no longer be told in the same way that they were many years ago, the messages contained in the tales remain as relevant today as they did in the past.
- Format
- 2 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
- Relation
- Kaschula, R., 2008. The Sacred Door and other Stories. Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (Makuchi). Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 45(2), pp.237-238
- Relation
- Tydskrif vir Letterkunde volume 45 number 2 237 238 2008 2309-9070
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Tydskrif vir letterkunde Copyright Notice Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/tvl/about/submissions)
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