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Friends of the Library host 'African Storyteller' March 15
By Michael Worringer
Library Communications
Posted 3/09/2007
MADISON, Wis.— UW-Madison’s famed “African Storyteller” will speak Thursday, March 15 at 4:30 p.m. in room 126 Memorial Library in an event sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library.
In “An African Journey: Thirty Years of Recording and Preserving African Folk Tales,” Harold Scheub, UW–Madison African Languages and Literature professor and author of the Parallel Press collection South African Voices, will discuss the research trips that he made to southern Africa in the late 1960s and in the 1970s.
Scheub walked up and down the coast of southern Africa, working with storytellers, historians and poets in the oral traditions of the Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa, the Swati in Swaziland and the Ndebele in the southern part of Zimbabwe.
Scheub will also discuss the enormous project initiated by Kenneth Frazier, interim chief information officer on campus, to digitize Scheub’s entire collection of thousands of hours of audio tapes, 3,000 color slides, 5,000 black-and-white photographs and hours of motion pictures amassed during his research trips to the rural areas of southern Africa.
