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What do oral traditions say about African society?

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Oral traditions says about oral history, poetry, folktales, and entertainment of the people. Oral stories of Africa says about its belief, myth, taboos and tradition.

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Oral tradition is a culture of transmission from one generation to other generation. The stories and messages can be transformed in the form of fabrics, songs, folktales etc. Without writing oral traditions make it possible to transfer stories of generations. Through these stories people make sense and pass beliefs, customs, taboos and culture from generation to generation.

It is proved very helpful in Africa as all the written scripts are in Arabic language and people found it very difficult to read. So oral story telling was the best policy.

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