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West African manuscripts by Siré Abbàs Soh, as communicated by Yoro Dyao, detailed six migrations from Egypt to Senegambia. [18] West African manuscripts contain record of the "enthronement of Askiyà Dāwūd (d. 1583) in 958/1551–1552. The texts of Cahiers n°s 2 and 5 record the same events, often described verbatim, for the earlier period.
Socé later wrote a number of animal and historical tales in his Contes et légendes d'Afrique noire (1942; "Stories and Legends of Black Africa"), which he drew from Senegalese oral tradition. He founded the magazine Bingo in 1953, and in 1956 had Rythmes du Khalam , a volume of poetry, published.
Prior to the introduction of written language (Arabic and Ajami) in the greater Senegambian region, spoken word was the medium through which societies preserved their traditions and histories. [5] Masters of this oral tradition, who belong to a specific hereditary caste within cultural hierarchies, are known as griots (guewel in Wolof or Jali ...
The Fon people, like neighboring ethnic groups in West Africa, remained an oral tradition society through the late medieval era, without ancient historical records. According to these oral histories and legends, the Fon people originated in present-day Tado, a small Aja town now situated near the Togo–Benin border.
Oral repositories are people who have been trusted with mentally recording information constituting oral tradition within a society. They serve an important role in oral cultures and illiterate societies as repositories of their culture's traditional knowledge , values, and morals.
Dyao graduated in 1860 as one of the earliest graduates of Governor Faidherbe's Ecole des Otages, [7] [8] which was founded in 1855. [7] He was one of many West African authors during the colonial era who wrote chronicles on the history [9] (e.g., Wolof history) [8] and culture of the people [9] (e.g., Wolof) [8] of Senegal, to have their works translated by Maurice Delafosse, Octave Houdas ...
African Language Studies 10:161-191; Hayward, Richard J. and Mohammed Hassan. 1981. The Oromo Orthography of Shaykh Bakri Sapalo. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 44.3:550-556. Kubik, Gerhard (2006). Tusona: Luchazi Ideographs : a Graphic Tradition of West-Central Africa. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-8258-7601-2.
Traditional African religion, like most other ancient traditions around the world, were based on oral traditions. These traditions are not religious principles, but a cultural identity that is passed on through stories, myths and tales, from one generation to the next.