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“African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”

Authors: SOTUNSA Mobolanle

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Nigerian Journal Of Oral Literatures

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The indiginous knowledge of Africans is generally archived in oral traditions and folklore. These are traditions that have been carried out over time, and include such practices as birth, marriage, burial and other rites and are passed through oral traditions. Embedded in these oral traditions are indigenous and local knowledge systems. Indigenous knowledge is used to sustain the community and its culture. Placing value on such knowledge could strengthen cultural identiyt and the nehanced use of such knowledge to achieve social and development goals, such as sustainable agriculture, affordable and appropriate public health, and conservation of biodiversity.

Indigenous knowledge is unique to a given culture or society and also the social capital of the poor, their main asset to invest in the struggle for survival, to produce food, to provide for shelter or to achieve control of their own lives. Indigenous knowledge in Africa is archived in oral literature. It is against this background that htis paper interrogates how oral literature, which comprises indigenous knowledge, can be further exploited through digitalization and the use of new media to contribute to creative industries and development in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. The paper examines performance as oral literature lives in performance. It also discusses the concepts of orality and digital orality and examines their prospects and challenges. The paper further interrogated the relationship between oral literature and creative/cultural industries. It suggests that by exploiting resources of digitalization, African oral literature can be harnessed to produce cultural and economic wealth.

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SOTUNSA,M. . (2017). “African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”, 4 (), 1-1.

SOTUNSA,M. . "“African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”" 4, no (), (2017): 1-1.

SOTUNSA,M. and . (2017). “African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”, 4 (), pp1-1.

SOTUNSAM, . “African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”. 2017, 4 ():1-1.

SOTUNSA,Mobolanle , . "“African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”", 4 . (2017) : 1-1.

S.Mobolanle , "“African Oral Literatures and Digital Orality: Prospects and Challenges”" vol.4, no., pp. 1-1, 2017.

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