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Contemporary Indigenous literatures in English it is not writing but printing that

revolutionized literature that has gained universal appeal started to spread in the
Western world after invention of the printing press. The ubiquitous nature of letters
was made possible due to the development in the printing field. While the ancient
civilizations in India, china and Egypt had their own system of writing and
preserving their literary traditions, many African and Indigenous communities
around the world preserved their lore in their oral traditions.

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