Digital Remediation of African Folklore

Abstract

This chapter examines the transformation of oral and written storytelling practices in African folklore industry to online digital platforms. The chapter engages the complexities, limits, and constraints of the stakeholders participatory model as it informs digital storytelling, and applies theoretical tactics to community media and the digital storytelling movement to develop an analytic framework for understanding how these stories can be used to give a voice to the voiceless, raise awareness, increase education, and promote democracy. Folklores serve a descriptive as well as prescriptive role by consistently depicting societal and cultural norms. The increasing usage of new media technologies amongst the producers and audiences of these folklores cannot be ruled out in Africa.