The annotated ngano song-story narratives in this book were collected in Niani, South Africa's Limpopo valley, from 2009 to 2016. Their discussion is situated at the intersection of history, ethnography, narratology and ...

The songs, musical games and song stories in this book originate from two sources. The first is a collection of songs I accumulated from 1983-1994 among Tshivenda-speaking people living in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. ...

The primary purpose of this collection of stories is the documenting of a waning oral narrative practice. Because the stories are integral to a culture-specific symbolic system, it is necessary that their meanings should ...