https://arvinfomedia.com/myjournals/index.php/GTILRI <p><strong>Global Trends and Insights: Literature Research and Innovation</strong> is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and selected high-impact reprints in the field of literature. The journal emphasizes studies that advance critical understanding, theoretical innovation, interdisciplinary perspectives, and cultural insights across literary traditions. It provides a global platform for researchers, scholars, and practitioners to explore literature’s interaction with society, culture, philosophy, and the arts, fostering rigorous scholarship and innovative methodologies.</p> <p>Published half-yearly, the journal is available in both print and electronic formats, ensuring wide accessibility to the research community.</p> en-US Global Trends & Insights: Literature Research & Innovation https://arvinfomedia.com/myjournals/index.php/GTILRI/article/view/473 <p>This study examines the hypothetical issue of the impact of ancient Egyptian beliefs on Africa as a whole. Several focal points are explored. These include (1). The situation of the discipline of folklore within allied academic specializations. (2). Culture diffusion within Africa, and (3). Spoken folk stories as the only field that integrates, in the space and time continuum, culture on the one hand, with its bearers/(society), on the other. (4). [Beside the] colonial past, the problem, is a result of a number of academic factors that include: (a). The establishment at universities of African studies departments that confine the continent to the sub-Saharan tier excluding Africa of the North; thus, folklore is isolated without a proper stage for studying it academically (see Dorson 1972); (b). The stereotyping concerning the capacity of scholars with unfamiliar names or recognized departmental membership as capable of dealing with theory or innovation, though some of their ideas are adopted by the famous without accrediting the source; (c). Ignoring the unfamiliarity for the family (especially under conditions of secrecy; cf. bias, ethnocentrism); and (d). Inadequacy of academic classroom pedagogy on the basics of verbal lore. Folklore in its original, mainly verbal branches, as represented by Stith Thompson’s monumental works on motif (1955–1958), and its predecessor by Antti Aarne on Type, (1910, 1928, 1961/1964), whose coverage, especially on Africa of the North, is seriously lacking in both the Type and Motif Indexes. The tracking of this line begins with recent calls for need for morphological studies of a South African tale (Dseagu [2001] 2021). An association among various regions of Africa with ancient Egypt concerning mythological contacts merits this investigation.</p> Hasan El-Shamy Copyright (c) 2026 Global Trends & Insights: Literature Research & Innovation 2026-10-19 2026-10-19 1–21 1–21