TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biebuyck,Daniel P.
AU  - Mateene Kahombo.
TI  - The Mwindo epic from the Banyanga (Congo Republic)
SN  - 9780520379800
AV  - PL8592.N439 MWI 
PY  - 1969///
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Nyanja (African people)
KW  - Nyanja language
KW  - Nyanja literature
N1  - Includes an index; Introduction The Nyanga Nyanga Oral Literature The Narrator, Mr. She-Karisi Candi Rureke The Mwindo Epic The System of Transcription Notes About the Translation The Mwindo Epic Index
N2  - A dynamic translation of the timeless African epic. The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the social structure, values, and cosmology of this African people
ER  -