The Mwindo Epic From the Banyanga Methods - Synthesis & Techniques Included is a press-out chessboard

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The Mwindo Epic From the Banyanga Methods - Synthesis & Techniques Included is a press-out chessboardThe feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the