Oral Traditions and Expressive Diversity: A Research, Documentation and Archival Project (Institute of African Studies)

The project, situated at the Institute of African Studies and aimed to improve field research skills for more efficient documentation, and to facilitate selected research projects based on oral narratives: fictional /historical/sociological. Four sub-projects undergird this project, namely:
• Shall I tell You or Shall I Not Tell You: An Encyclopedic Study of Folktales Across Ghana. (Professor Esi Sutherland-Addy, Dr. Edward Nanbigne and Dr. Stephen Acheampong).
• Narratives of Resistance to Slavery (Dr. Edward Nanbigne)
• Ga-Dangme Narratives of the Katamanso war: a tale of ‘the blind men and the elephant,’ or a tool for communal aggrandisement? (Dr. Moses Nii Dortey)
• Documenting and Interpreting Oral Traditions and Histories of the Proscribed Oral-Performance Tradition Known as Halo Among the Southern Ewe as a Significant National Cultural Heritage. (Professor Daniel Avorgbedor).