Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition

An open-access journal devoted to the study of the world’s oral traditions, past and present.

Volume 37, Number 1

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“What Do You Want Money For?”: A Chain Tale Between Berber and Songhay

Lameen Souag

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):3–18 Introduction This article examines an apparently undocumented tale from northwestern Africa: a short, simply phrased dialogue…

Postscript

Lameen Souag

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):19–21 Some years after completing the preceding article, the author came across what is so far the…

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