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Mwindo

Nyangan epic

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African oral literature

  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: The epic

    …Sunjata and in the epic Mwindo of the Nyanga people of Congo there are major political changes.

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  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: The epic

    Those epics, as well as Mwindo, dramatize the rite of passage of a society or a culture: the hero’s movement through the familiar stages of the ritual becomes a poetic metaphor for a like movement of the society itself. The tale at the centre of the epic may be as…

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