Teshome Mossissa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teshome Mossissa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teshome |
| FAMILY NAME | Mossissa |
| SIGNATURE | MOSSISSA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jimma University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4048-5745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rainbows in Eastern African folktales
The rainbow makes for strong imagery: throughout world history, the rainbow has functioned in many ways as a tool to think with. This is no different in African contexts. Our aim in this paper is to explore the changing meanings given to relations between rainbows and snakes in narratives from the Gikuyu language in Central Kenya. We thereby remain open to the wider East African context, indicating the multiple meaning-making of rainbows in ecolo…
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Rainbows in Eastern African folktales
The rainbow makes for strong imagery: throughout world history, the rainbow has functioned in many ways as a tool to think with. This is no different in African contexts. Our aim in this paper is to explore the changing meanings given to relations between rainbows and snakes in narratives from the Gikuyu language in Central Kenya. We thereby remain open to the wider East African context, indicating the multiple meaning-making of rainbows in ecolo…
African history and culture studies (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (1 work) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 work) · Interpretation (philosophy (1 work) · Narrative (1 work) · Perspective (graphical (1 work) · Rainbow (1 work)