West African Folk-Tales

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Автор: William Henry Barker, Cecilia Sinclair

Название: West African Folk-Tales

Издательство: London, G. G. Harrap & company

Год: 2007

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Язык: English

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In presenting to the public these stories based on the folk-lore of the Gold Coast peoples, it seems necessary to say something in general terms of the economic and social development of the colony in so far as that development is affecting the ' lore ' of the folk.

Not until the civilization and industrialism of Europe began to penetrate into the districts of the Guinea Coast was any great attempt made to study the folk-lore of these peoples. It is obvious, therefore, that the student must find considerable admixture from outside sources which the absence of a native system of writing and consequent literature makes exceedingly difficult to detect. The difficulties

increase with time, for we are getting farther and farther from the genuine folk-lore. Each year, from towns like Accra, Seccondee, and Cape Coast the

tentacles of European civilization are slowly extending in all directions. Railways and roads are creeping out, old-fashioned crudity is giving way to simpler

and more expeditious methods ; new industries, as rubber and cocoa, are being established. All this must be borne in mind in studying the folk-lore

as told by the native to-day. What is happening is, unfortunately, not an awakening, but a transformation. The negro is discarding his native cloth

for a European suit of clothes.