Above all is poetry

Keywords: 
CHILDREN, FOLKLORE, ORAL TRADITIONS, POETRY
Creator: 
Aidoo, Ama Ata
Publisher: 
Gransight Holdings Ltd, London
Date: 
1966-07-01
Resource type: 
Journal articles
Language: 
English
Source: 

The New African Volume 5 Number 6 July 1966

Extent: 
2 page(s)
Relation: 

Article in The New African Volume 5 Number 6 July 1966 page 126-127

Digital rights: 

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In the vast field of African oral literature, the folktale is after all only one form of the prose material, and probably the lesser part of the whole, for poetry covered every aspect of a man's life.