How African Folklore Differ from European Folktales Annotaed Summary

http://dx. doi. org/10. 1086/203110 This journal highlights the participants from different fields such as ethnography, musicology, folklore science, sociology, philosophy, history, archeology, and linguistics, literary and artistic criticism among others. “Folklore in Africa Today” was born during this conference and it brought about contributions about African folklore from all over the world. org/10. 1371/journal. pone. 0078871 It has long been evident that there are diverse differences in the oral traditions associated with different cultures. Nowadays, it is possible to classify tales into “international types” and trace them to their original types. doi. org/10. 1093/oxfordjournals. afraf. a098963 Folktales from Africa have a rich history. http://dx. doi. org/10. 2307/538485 In his study, Propp completely ignored the historical and social context of the tales he examined.