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Traditional oral literature for post-literacy reading materials

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  1. This data has been drawn from a census conducted in 1967 in the United Republic of Tanzania (mainland). As a result of a literacy campaign embarked on after the census, the rate of illiteracy has definitely dropped but exact figures are not yet available.

  2. Paulo Freire,Pedagogy of the Oppressed, chap. 2, New York, Herder & Herder, 1972.

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  3. The districts of Geita, Mwanza, Maswa, Musoma, Sikonge and Urambo have been covered.

  4. Paulo, Freire,Cultural Action for Freedom, Cambridge, Mass., Center for the Study of Development and Social Change, 1970, p. 21–47.

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  1. Institute of Adult Education, Dar es Salaam, (United Republic of Tanzania)

    Simoni Malya (Adult educator, currently Senior Resident Tutor)

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Has written five books in Swahili on developing materials and a supportive environment for new literates.

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Malya, S. Traditional oral literature for post-literacy reading materials. Prospects 6, 98–102 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02220138

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