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Despite the efforts of successive colonial and apartheid regimes to obliterate the African cultural milieu, orature and literature have served both as a shield and weapon of struggle.
ANC Today 2007
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Despite the efforts of successive colonial and apartheid regimes to obliterate the African cultural milieu, orature and literature have served both as a shield and weapon of struggle.
ANC Today 2007
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When I started writing in Gikuyu, I realised that the orature of African tradition is not limited in space or time.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o 2006
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These cultures’ orature (not literature, because not in writing), these cultures’ “story, song and ritual,” can’t be ignored if you want to see what Wright does.
A mess of errors : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Dead is a suitable vehicle for reminding ourselves of the value of interface between poetic diction, the basic principles of speech, orature and communication. "
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Oral literature (or orature, the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu) may be in prose or verse.
March 21, 2023