The chapters of this book discuss a variety of forms that AfricanOrality takes up in Algeria, RD Congo, Morocco, Nigeria, and in the AfricanDiaspora. These are contexts in which communication and literary creationare marked by the diffusion of print, radio, television and more recently theInternet. Changes as well as continuities - which both mark oral forms in the long run -are addressed in this collection. Some of the chapters investigate the new dimensions that oral communication has taken in African languages because of the increasing presence of literacyand technical media. Other chapters focus on the long-term exchanges andinteractions of oral and written forms in contexts marked by the presence oforal/written diglossia and multilingualism, and yet others address thestriking continuity and present functions of oral genres.