Editing Epic poetry (section)

====Africa====
A variety of epic forms are found in Africa. Some have a linear, unified style while others have a more cyclical, episodic style (Barber 2007, p.&nbsp;50).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barber |first=Karin |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/anthropology-of-texts-persons-and-publics/7B7C174C35CCE4D91CDD779458CD442F |title=The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics |date=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-83787-3 |series=New Departures in Anthropology |location=Cambridge}}</ref> The best known of African epics is [[Epic of Sundiata]] from Mali. Some contemporary scholarship presses against the bifurcation of "epic vs. novel".<ref>Repinecz, Jonathon. ''Subversive traditions: Reinventing the West African Epic''. Michigan State University Press, 2019.</ref>

There is also the epic of "Kelefaa Saane", "part of the repertoire that maintains the memroy of a legendary warrior prince of Kaabu, a kingdom in the [[Senegambia|Senegambian]] area of West Africa, in the nineteenth century".<ref>p. ix, Camara, Sirifo. ''The Epic of Kelefaa Saane.'' Indiana University Press, 2010.</ref>