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Shona praise-poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

G. Fortune  and
A. C. Hodza
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0.0. Our knowledge of traditional African literature has been greatly increased of recent years thanks, in part, to the Oxford Library of African Literature. Among the volumes of that series there have been some which have studied, either in breadth or depth, the genre of praise-poetry. The following notes on praise-poetry among the Shona aim at being a contribution to a study which Wilfred Whiteley, as joint editor of the Oxford Library, did much to promote.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 65 - 75
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1974

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References

1 Sohapera, I., Praise-poems of Tswana chiefs, 1965Google Scholar; Cope, Trevor (ed.), Izibongo: Zulu praise-poems, 1968Google Scholar; Finnegan, Ruth, Oral literature in Africa, 1970Google Scholar; Kunene, D. P., Heroic poetry of the Basotho, 1971Google Scholar: Oxford Library of African Literature—General Editors E. E. Evans-Pritchard, R. G. Lienhardt, and W. H. Whiteley.