Humour in Lango trickster tales

Abstract

This study examines the roles played by tricksters in enhancing amusements in fable tales of the Lango people. This serves the purpose of analysing the role of one of the major characters in fables and how they are central in weaving the bits of the story, and its elements together while ensuring that it is funny altogether. From this study, the trickster is marked as a notable character, and looked at from the lens of a humour vehicle rather than the mischievous or any other negative attribute attached to it. Since humour is almost a whole part of fables, most especially that of the Lango, this study answers the question as to why tricksters are central to these tales, especially in ensuring that it is humour.