A Celebration of African Orature:Niane’s Sundiata(revised edition, 2006)

By Dr. Peter Vakunta Djibril Tamsir Niane’s Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali(revised version, 2006) is an excellent example of novelistic palimpsest. This novel is a parody of the Epic of Sundiata.It is a reproduction of the epic tale of…