The aesthetics of transcribing orality in the works of Alexis Kagame, writer of Rwanda.

Examines how Rwandan writer Alexis Kagame sought to perpetuate the literature of oral tradition through his works. Creation of other modalities of language, forms and aesthetics; Contribution to the opening up of Rwandan symbolic territory; Kagame's translation of some of his works into the French language; Categories defined by Kagame as Rwandan oral traditions.