The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga
Author
Original Work
Translators
Editor
Daniel Biebuyck, Kahombo C. Mateene
Language
Year
2021
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
224
ISBN
9780520379800
A dynamic translation of the timeless African epic. The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the social structure, values, and cosmology of this African people.— Google Books
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