"In a continent in which most of the memory of peoples is transferred orally through storytelling and can be lost, the people in Timbuktu had a written tradition that is quite rare in Africa, " he said.
Malian Ambassador to South Africa Sinaly Coulibaly said that while African history and culture were often associated with an oral tradition, the Timbuktu documents were a reminder that African knowledge comprises both a written and oral tradition.
This collection of work by Doris Lessing features three dozen of the Nobel Prize-winner's short stories, most of them, as novelist Margaret Drabble points out in her introduction, written in the realistic tradition set by Chekhov and D.
Others share his ambition: Papi is so concerned with preserving tradition that he has written a book dedicated to the importance of hand-finishing watches.
The volume is still handed out as a guide book to new traders every year, an ironic tradition considering the book was written as a cautionary tale.
Maier fascinatingly describes not just how the Declaration itself came into being but also the context of the times in which it was written, as well as the English tradition of ideas, petitions and declarations from whence it flowed.
We've seen some books written about the barbershop, and the history, and the grand tradition.
Van Hooff briefly reviewed all the articles included in this issue which deal with oral tradition, linguistic diversity and the African influence in the region, all written by experts and prestigious intellectuals.
In an intriguing tip of the hat to a tradition on its way out, if not already dead and buried, the fiery nobleman Adriano is written for a woman.
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