1a. Using your recent field trip to Mombasa and Kwale as a spring board, discuss the 
significance of fieldwork in oral literature scholarship. (15 mrks) 
Using your recent field trip to Mombasa and Kwale as a spring board, discuss the 
significance of fieldwork in oral literature scholarship. (15 mrks) 

b. With reference to your experience as an Orature scholar and researcher, highlight the 
relevance of classification in oral literature field work (15mrks) 
2. Examine the usefulness and limitation of theory to the study of oral literature. (20mrks) 
3. With specific examples, outline the features of African oral literature. (20mrks) 
4. Citing specific examples compare the most outstanding characteristics of the epic and the 
trickster narrative. (20mrks) 
5. With reference to a narrative from a specific community in Africa, attempt an application of 
Vladimir Propp’s analytical framework on the structure of folktales. (20 mks) 
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