Tales of Amadou Koumba

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Tales of Amadou Koumba or Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba is a collection of tales from Senegal, presented as being transcribed by Birago Diop from the accounts of his family's griot, Amadou Koumba. Diop later acknowledged, however, that the tales were drawn from a number of storytellers he had met, not only Amadou Koumba. The book was first published in 1947. This is one of the first significant attempts to put African oral literature into written form. According to Roland Colin, these tales reveal the finest art of the Wolof griots and Birago Diop makes these tales audible to the European reader and the least informed of the "Black African spirit". A selection of tales from this volume as well as its follow-up Les Nouveaux Contes d'Amadou Koumba were translated into English by Dorothy S. Blair as Tales of Amadou Koumba (Oxford University Press, 1966).

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1 de janeiro de 1947

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Birago Diop

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