ABSTRACT
Storytelling in Africa has for some time now been recognized as an art form in its own right. And, through the work of scholars such as Ruth Finnegan, Donald Cosentino, and Francis Ngaboh-Smart, storytelling in Sierra Leone has been brought to the attention of anthropologists and literary scholars. However, while it is generally acknowledged that such storytelling is basically a performance art, the emphasis in all the work produced so far has been on the narrative structure of the art form.
