Found 2 collections related to Folk literature, African

May M. Edel was an anthropologist who studied the Chiga people of western Uganda. This collection consists of stories, tales, field notes, correspondence, and various drafts of the manuscript about the Chiga people entitled "The Bachiga of East Africa". less

The London-based Transcription Centre was a cultural organization that produced and recorded audio interviews and programs related to arts and culture in Africa and across the African diaspora. The Transcription Centre Interviews with African Writers audio collection consists of 108 audio interviews and programs recorded between 1962 and 1970. Featuring African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, scholars, politicians, musicians, and other significant cultural figures, the recordings focus on African literature, art, history, politics, culture, and contemporary issues. The organization was later discovered to be funded by a CIA front organization. less