Practitioners and Uses of Contemporary Mende Folk literature in South-Eastern Sierra Leone

Ibrahim Mustapha Fofanah, Philip Foday Yamba Thulla and Samba Moriba

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021, vol. 10

Abstract: The study examined the practitioners and uses of contemporary Mende folk literature in South-eastern Sierra Leone. A qualitative research design involving 250 participants from 50 communities with 5 participants from each community was used in the study. Interviews were carried out using interview guide questions relating to folk practices, performance, and uses in the selected communities. Focus group discussions followed the interviews in 10 communities selected using simple random techniques. The findings revealed that Mende folk literature was endangered and, apart from occasional singing, household story-telling and riddling sessions done mainly by children and women, the only groups of people recognized as practitioners of Mende folk literature were the tribal and secret society heads and the community's griots, who mostly were elderly people. Mende folk literature should not only be of academic interest but rather a source of cultural rejuvenation.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.36941/ajis-2021-0157

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