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This publication is on the riddles of the Kasena people of the
Upper East Region of Ghana. Some of these people can also be found
in southern Burkina Faso. For Kasena people riddles have been an
important aspect of their cultural existence. Riddles are the means
by which knowledge and wisdom, as Kasena saw it, and still see it,
were passed down the generations. Riddles, though of anonymous
authorship enshrine for these people, the ways of the world, as
they comment on human and animal behavior, relationships, and on
events taking place in the social and physical environment. Riddles
are coined from critical observations of life and of nature itself.
This author's objective is to explain the meanings of a collection
of riddles by situating the riddles in their appropriate cultural
and historical matrices. The argument is that even from apparent
nonsense and non-sense, sense and meaning can be derived or
distilled. However, to do this requires an appreciation of the
people's culture and outlook to arrive at the literal meaning of
riddle statements and from there to penetrate the underlying
structure.
The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments,
the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa -
all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook
contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four
sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on
major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as
well as one article on continental developments and one on
African-European relations. While the articles have thorough
academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the
requirements of a large range of target groups: students,
politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers,
practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business
people.
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