Rough Beginning of my Paper. . .

The African People have always been known as good storytellers, just as the many different peoples around the world who came from traditionally oral cultures and customs. Many African’s today, just like they were hundreds of years ago, continue to live in a primarily oral culture rather than a literary one. The oral traditions in Africa, which originally derived from the beginnings of African cultures, are historically rich art forms that continue to evolve and spread through the ears of our world.
Every human culture has seemed to create a set of oral stories to make sense of what was happening in the world. However, the themes, motifs, narrative meanings, genres, and specific storytelling styles differ from culture to culture. While some stories from Africa may make sense to people from different continents and backgrounds, others will be more foreign and difficult to understand. To be able to relate to the stories, one must gain knowledge on the African storyteller’s values, themes, images, metaphors, narrative structures and plots. To fully understand African traditional storytelling, one must become familiar with the context of the cultures in which a story has derived from.