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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Tigrigna Folk Poetry |
Author: | Sahle, Amanuel |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | Ethiopian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 101-104 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | Tigre oral poetry (form) Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Literature, Mass Media and the Press |
Abstract: | Although most of Tigrigna's lyric poems and proverbs are rarely seen in print, they live in the legends, and traditions of a people who commit them to memory. The author here presents three different funeral lamentations, recreating them in English 'to make our cultural and literary heritage known to the world'. Abstr., notes. |