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| Tales transmitted from generation to generation have met in all societies, including African, different functions them is to inculcate from very young children the values of the community. Not strange, therefore, find the narratives of the stories very conservative and diehards. A clear example of this attempt can broadcast some stories in view Bachelor's Tale. The stories reinforced a social morality, explaining the rules governing the life of the community and its values the protagonist is rewarded or punished according to their merits).
Another important role of the stories has been its character teaching and learning tool for children. In some societies Africa it was customary not to communicate new knowledge to a child before him told him a story or a riddle proposed to whichever were the child's reactions to judge whether the child's intellectual level was sufficient to receive new knowledge and advance learning. For a better understanding of lessons about things that were the object of teaching is used in the stories to things natural environment (fauna, flora, geographical environment, ...) that is easier to be retained by the child. |
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