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Harold E. Scheub is professor of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To record oral traditions he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. He is the author of "The Tongue Is Fire" and the editor of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's "The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from Xhosa Oral Tradition," both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is also the author of "The African Storyteller."