Cameroon GCE Ordinary Level English Language

Practice session

Read the passage below and answer the question: 'Oral literature in African traditional societies serves as far more than mere evening entertainment around the hearth. It operates as a living archive of community history, philosophical ethics, and civic values. Through intricate proverbs, riddles, and folktales, elder storytellers pass down communal memory and moral codes to succeeding generations. To neglect these oral traditions in the modern school curriculum is to sever the cultural umbilical cord that binds a people to their heritage.' According to the passage, what is the primary societal function of oral literature in traditional African communities?

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