We can use a current page typical of the coverage of African and African-American trickster figures to situate the transition from Africa to America. These trickster figures remain vivid and instructive. As readers of literature, we can analyze them critically to understand what remains vibrant culturally from this centuries-long removal of people from Africa.
https://papalegba.weebly.com/tricksters.html
Do sites like this represent the complexity of the trickster accurately? What distortions may appear on a blog, website, or other popular web-based medium?
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