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Keepers of West-African Humanism and Healing: African -Centered Storytelling Praxis by Age in Chicago
thesis
posted on 2020-12-01, 00:00 authored by Elisha G. HallMy dissertation explores the interdependent connection between African oral tradition and traditional African healing strategies found in storytelling in Chicago. In examining a nonprofit based in Chicago that offers cultural education through political resistance oral narratives (i.e. storytelling), my research examines how storytelling can provide emotional and cultural edification for youth and older adults that experience mental, intellectual, spiritual and
racial subjugation. My work builds on the work of George J. Sefa Dei, Kmt G. Shockley, Kofi Lomotey, Lifongo Vetinde, and Jean-Blaise Samou, in that it centers African cultural production and knowledge as the source and connection to African spiritualism, communalism, and humanism and thus African traditional healing. Lastly, it presents a structured framework for an African-centered storytelling praxis as a way towards re-Africanization and healing.
History
Advisor
Stovall, DavidChair
Stovall, DavidDepartment
Educational Policy StudiesDegree Grantor
University of Illinois at ChicagoDegree Level
- Doctoral
Degree name
PhD, Doctor of PhilosophyCommittee Member
Nguyen, Nicole Irby, Decoteau Rashid, Kamau Emeagwali,, GloriaSubmitted date
December 2020Thesis type
application/pdfLanguage
- en