A people who live by the word

A people who live by the word

When he was a boy of 14 in the village of Dankawali in northeast Sierra Leone, Kewulay watched his father, a member of the Finah clan of oral poets and masters of ceremony, writing down the ancient stories in the Kuranko language, in an Arabic script on an animal skin with a reed pen.

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Veröffentlicht in:Voices (New York Folklore Society) 2016-04, Vol.42 (1/2), p.8-9
1. Verfasser: Zeitlin, Steve
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Arabic language
Documentaries
Documentary films
Epics
Kamara, Kewulay
Mythology
Oral traditions
Poets
Storytellers
Storytelling
Works
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Zusammenfassung:When he was a boy of 14 in the village of Dankawali in northeast Sierra Leone, Kewulay watched his father, a member of the Finah clan of oral poets and masters of ceremony, writing down the ancient stories in the Kuranko language, in an Arabic script on an animal skin with a reed pen.
ISSN:1551-7268