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From: John Badenhorst [mailto:johnbad@mweb.co.za] <mailto:[mailto:johnbad@mweb.co.za]>=20
Just to add to the information, KEITA, (ALSO KNOWN AS "KEITA, FROM = MOUTH TOEAR") is presented in a simple but effective way and is easily = assimilated by a general audience. Dani Kouyate won the Paulin Vieyra Merit Award = (for younger directors) in the 1995 M-NET All Africa Film Awards, in Johannesburg. regards JOHNBAD
---------- Xposted from H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU = <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU> <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU> = > Subject: Query: African Literature for Schools
Not directly as an answer for this query, but as a reminder concerning teaching Sundiata for undergraduate and graduate students. There's an exellent film by Dani Kouyat=E9 _The Heritage of the Griot_ (Burkina = Faso, 1995, 94 min) which can be used when teaching Sundiata and African oral literature. >From the presentation of the film: "Keita creates a unique world where the West Africa of the 13th Century Sundjata Epic and the West Africa of today co-exist and interpenetrate. Director Dani Kouyat=E9 frames his dramatization of the epic within the = story of Mabo Keita, contemporary boy from Burkina Faso, learning the history = of his family. During the film, Mabo and his distant ancestor, Sundjata, = engage in parallel quests to understand their destinies, to "know the meaning = of their names". In so doing, Keita makes the case for an "Afrocentric" education, where African tradition, not an imported Western curricula = is the necessary starting point for African devhis family. During the film, Mabo and his distant ancestor, Sundjata, = engage in parallel quests to understand their destinies, to "know the meaning = of their names". In so doing, Keita makes the case for an "Afrocentric" education, where African tradition, not an imported Western curricula = is the necessary starting point for African development." "The film recounts = only a part of the epic, the events surrounding the birth, boyhood and exile = of Sundjata which correspond to lines 356 to 1647 in the standard = translation, Johnson, John William, The Epic of Son-Jara (Sundjata): A West African Tradition, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1992." I have read the parts of Sundjata (translated in Finnish) with my = students and we have discussed the significance of griot and oral literature. = Since knowing your own history is a central part of griot tradition, after screening the film, the students have been asked to work in pairs and = tell to each others the history of their names (their family) and then = present some of the stories to the class . They have been ashtonished when noticing how little they know about their own roots. Mari Maasilta University of Tampere Finland elopment." "The film recounts =
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