FORTHCOMING BOOK PUBLICATION: THE OL4D TEAM OFFERING FOLKTALES AND VISUALS FOR TEACHING!
- Inge Brinkman, James Wachira, Teshome Mossissa, Peter Wasamba (eds), African storytelling and images in teaching: youth and crisis management through folktales and visuals from Kenya and Ethiopia (Brill-De Gruyter 2026). 124pp.
Journal Articles
Megersa Regassa on gender in Afaan Oromo oral narratives:
Megersa Regassa, Inge Brinkman & Teshome Mossissa, ‘The Fluidity of Gender Representations in Oromo Oral Narratives’, Afrika Focus 39, 1 (2026) pp. 49-79.
Terefe Mitiku on two conferences:
Terefe Mitiku, ‘Oral Narratives as an Academic Agenda: A Reflection on the Academic Symposiums “Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis” and “Young People Coping with Crisis”’, Afrika Focus 39, 1 (2026) pp. 195–201.
Peter Wasamba on African and Japanese oral traditions:
Peter Wasamba, ‘From folktales to Fukushima: African and Japanese oral traditions in the age of the anthropocene’, Journal or Oriental Studies 35 (2026) pp. 26-53.
Inge Brinkman, Teshome Mossissa, Peter Wasamba and James Wachira on rainbows:
Inge Brinkman, Teshome Mossissa, Peter Wasamba and James Wachira, ‘Rainbows in Eastern African folktales: oral narrative as ecocritical model’, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 62, 3 (2025) pp. 10-17.
James Wachira on the OL4D-approach:
James Wachira, ‘Kenya and Ethiopia: Oral narratives and crisis management’, Oral History Journal 53, 3 (Autumn 2025) pp. 34-35.
Inge Brinkman on Gikuyu dragons and chiefs:
Inge Brinkman, ‘Councils and chiefs, monsters and trees: Gikuyu more-than-human political authority’, Afrika Focus 38, 2 (2025) pp. 339–369.
Terefe Mitiku and others on personification in Afaan Oromo oral narratives:
Dejene Gemechu Chala, Tadelech Admasu Nesir, Terefe Mitiku Mekonnen, ‘The Speaking Fauna, Flora, and Phenomena: Personification in the Oral Literature of the Walisoo Liiban Oromoo’, Barruulee Finfinnee/ Finfinnee Journal 1, 1 (2025) pp. 73-101.
Inge Brinkman on the gendered meals of ogres:
Inge Brinkman, ‘Monsters en hun gendered maaltijden: femicide in oger-verhalen uit Europa en Afrika’, Armada 24, 81 (2025) pp. 8-9.
Inge Brinkman, ‘Monsters and their gendered meals: femicide in ogre-narratives from Europe and Africa’, Gadaa Journal 8, 2 (2025) pp. 58-69.
Inge Brinkman with transcription, translation of one Gikuyu oral narrative:
Inge Brinkman, Sandra Kawerama-Bleeker, Esther Njeri, ‘De broer en de zus’, Stemmen van Afrika (Februari 2025): https://stemmenvanafrika.nl/de-broer-en-zus/
Inge Brinkman, Vicky Van Bockhaven and other Team members on trees:
Inge Brinkman & Vicky Van Bockhaven (+ input from James Wachira, Milkessa Edae-Tufa, Sofie Dierickx, Mercy Ashepet), ‘Tree Entanglements Calendar’, in: Emelien Devos, Alessandro Guglielmo, Laura Andriessen (eds), ‘More-than-Human Freedom’, zine conference proceedings (Knowledge Commons, 2024) pp. 21-36. https://doi.org/10.17613/qt3c-rn81
Peter Wasamba and Mark Obure-Morang’a on the OL4D-approach:
Peter Wasamba & Mark Obure-Morang’a, ‘Kenya and Ethiopia: Oral narratives and crisis management’, Oral History Journal 52, 2 (Autumn 2024) pp. 35-36.
Megersa Regassa and Terefe Mitiku on Afaan Oromo oral literatures in written fiction:
Megersa Regassa & Terefe Mitiku, ‘Orality in African Literary Works: An Interaction of Oromo Oral Literature with Written Poetry’, Research in African Literatures 54, 3 (Autumn 2024) pp. 111-130. Doi: 10.2979/ral.00019.
Terefe Mitiku and others on cattle in marriage rituals:
Jiraa Mokonnon, Bulloo Fiixaa, Terefe Mitiku, ‘Xiinxala Gahee Loonii Sirna Fuudhaafi Heeru ma Oromoo Maccaa Keessatti: Kuttaayee Irratti Xiyyeeffachuun [Analysis of the Roles of Cattle in the Traditional Marriage Rituals of the Macca Oromoo: The Case of Kuttaye]’, Gadaa Journal 7, 2 (June 2024) pp. 126-140.
Inge Brinkman on Gikuyu ogres:
Inge Brinkman, ‘Who is at the centre? Gikuyu ogres, oral narratives and posthuman thinking’, Nairobi Journal of Literature 10, 1 (2022) pp. 52-64.
