About the Project
This database-driven dashboard treats African folktales as performative moral texts whose meanings shift across transcription, translation, and recirculation. Drawing on performance-based approaches to oral narrative and critical archival studies, it offers interactive visualizations of theme prevalence, ethical framings, animal-mediated “moral chains,” and bridge narratives—stories retold across multiple cultural regions. By foregrounding provenance, variation, and contestation, the platform supports a reparative, situated approach to digital storytelling scholarship: slow enough to keep story-level context available for qualitative return, but structured enough to make patterns visible.
