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SAFOS was formed as result of a need to have a body that would give voice to scholarship on matters pertaining Folklore Studies. Originally known as “The Scallan Society for Folklore Studies”, the Society changed to its to its current name in 1991. Since then SAFOS, through its accredited Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies (SAJFS) has provided the much needed platform for Researchers, Scholars, Academics, Folklorists and Indigenous Knowledge Practitioners alike to test their views on many broad issues pertaining folklore studies.

The Southern African Society for Folklore Studies is a non-profit association of individual and affiliated Southern African and international researchers and scholars engaged in work on any aspect of folklore. The term folklore is used by the Southern African Society for Folklore Studies in its broadest and multidimensional senses “that encompass fields which impinge on folk culture, such as mythology, and all customs, rituals and structures of human society, the origins of which can be traced to oral transmission”. Thus SAFOS has become the repository of scholarship and critical engagement on matters pertaining to folklore especially in, but not limited to, the Southern African Region.

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9th Conference of the International Society for the Oral Literature of Africa (ISOLA) will be held at the University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province, South Africa (June 28—July 1, 2012).

ISOLA CONFERENCE

NEW SAFOS EDITOR

Professor Mashudu Mashige has been appointed the new Scientific Editor of the Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies.