This paper will focus on The Epic of Sundiata Keita and a different narrations of Al-Sira al-Hilaliya in Egypt, to investigate the similarities and differences between them in relation to the structure of the epic, represented by the stages through which the folk cultural hero passes; for example, the prophecy; the birth of the hero; the alienation of the hero; and the final recognition of the hero. It will depend on the comparative method and the oral-formulaic theory (Finnegan, 1977), (Ong, 1992).
