International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 521-529. 2012
Summary:
Godwin Makaudze, a professor in the Department of African Languages and Literature, Great Zimbabwe University, examines two folktales and concludes that folktales “continue to be a very meaningful and quite serious way of exposing, explaining and shaping reality.”
He makes several recommendations, including:
- making folklore a compulsory subject in lower, higher and post-secondary studies.
- modernizing folktales into cartoons so children can experience the folktales via modern media (television, Facebook, Google chat, etc.)