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Book Synopsis Ajantala & other Yoruba Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book Ajantala & other Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the magical world of Yoruba folklore with Ajantala and other Yoruba Folktales, a captivating collection of stories that will transport you to another time and place. In this book, you'll discover a rich tapestry of tales that have been passed down through generations of Yoruba storytellers. Some of the stories are as old as the art of storytelling itself, while others are relatively newer. Some of the stories are familiar to those who grew up with Yoruba culture, while others are unique to the author's own imagination. But regardless of their origin, all of the stories in this collection share one thing in common - they're filled with magic, wonder, and the timeless wisdom of Yoruba culture. You'll meet a cast of colorful characters, from wily tricksters to wise elders, and journey through the lush landscapes and mystical realms of Yoruba mythology. With its vivid prose, vibrant imagery, and timeless wisdom, Ajantala and other Yoruba Folktales is a must-read for anyone interested in the art of storytelling, folklore, or African culture. So sit back, relax, and prepare to be transported to a world of magic and wonder that you'll never forget.
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Download or read book Ajantala and Other Yoruba Folktales written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ajantala and Other Yoruba Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book Ajantala and Other Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection are derived from Yoruba folklore. Some are as old as the art of storytelling itself, some are relatively newer, some I have gleaned from places that have become lost to memory, and some I have made up entirely on my own . In all cases I have attempted to retell the stories in my own way, and in the way of a Yoruba storyteller.-Rotimi Ogunjobi, Author
Book Synopsis The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales is a selection of folklore thought to have originated from the Yoruba people. The Yoruba are native to the western part of Nigeria. A few centuries ago, the cultural influence of this ethnic group stretched much further out into the West Africa region. Folk tales of the Yoruba are often severely fantastic, the themes generally underscoring the largely agrarian occupation and also the great reverence accorded the gods and the traditional rulers of the communities.
Book Synopsis Comparative Approaches to African Literatures by : Bernth Lindfors
Download or read book Comparative Approaches to African Literatures written by Bernth Lindfors and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the essays in this book - notably those concerned with examining Western influences on sub-Saharan African writings (tracing Shakespearean and Brechtian echoes in Nigerian drama, for instance, or following the footprints of Sherlock Holmes in Swahili detective fiction) - fit the traditional definition of comparative literature. These are essays that cross national literary boundaries and sometimes transcend language barriers as well. They look for correspondences in related literary phenomena from widely dispersed areas of the globe, bringing together what is akin from what is akimbo. But most of the essays included here involve closer comparisons. Two focus on works produced in different languages within the same African nation (Yoruba and English in Nigeria, Afrikaans and English in South Africa), and one presents a taxonomy of dominant literary forms in English in three East African nations. Others concentrate on the oeuvre of a single author, and on the likely future output of exiled writers who soon will be returning home. One essay contrasts discursive tendencies within the same text, and another investigates conflicting African and Western religious beliefs. A great variety of comparative methodologies is deployed here; not all of these are transnational, multilingual or pluralistic in scope. The last two groups of essays deal with matters of characterization and authorial reputation. Studies of the depiction of African Americans, politicians and women in a wide range of African literary texts are followed by an assessment of the current standing of anglophone Africa's leading authors. In entering such highly contested terrain, the comparatist approach adopted has been that of the neutral witness to early African attempts - comparatist in their own way - to define an African canon of classic texts. Authors discussed include: Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana); Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Cyprian Ekwensi, D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria); Peter Abrahams, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Thomas Mofolo, Es'kia Mphahlele and Karel Schoeman (South Africa).
Download or read book Yoruba Folktales written by Amos Tutuola and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This book includes seven folktales especially for young adults, but of universal appeal. Beautiful black and white ink drawings illustrate the tales whose cast of characters include humans, a goddess, an elephant woman, a boa constrictor and a shell-man.
Book Synopsis King Chameleon and more West African Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book King Chameleon and more West African Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Chameleon and more West African Folktales is a selection of folklore believed to have originated from West Africa and the people who live in the region. West Africa is home to several scores of tribes, languages and dialects. Even though, tribal cords are quite strong and languages may differ markedly even between two communities a few hundred miles apart, it is usual to find similarities between the local folktales, and in some cases only the names of the central characters would make one version of a tale to be different from another . Most of the stories in this volume were gleaned from areas within the countries now known as Ghana and Togo. However, the stories are commonly retold in several forms all over the West Africa region.
Book Synopsis The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales is a selection of folklore thought to have originated from the Efik people . The Efik are native to South East Nigeria even though they were said to have migrated from the Cameroons. Originally the economy of the region which they occupy was based on fishing and trading . This aspect of their daily lives as well as the mortal dread of the Ekpe secret society which regularly made and enforced laws, will be seen to have formed the bedrock of their local anecdotes.
Book Synopsis The Leopard and the Galogalo by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book The Leopard and the Galogalo written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by xceedia - tee publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edidare written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by xceedia - tee publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bad country, a bad people, a bad king. Èdìdàré is an epic poem which tells the story of a group of adventurers journeying to a far country, from which they expect to return with the Wisdom Fruit. Led by a warrior called Irinkerindo, they discover a city hidden deep inside the forest. Èdìdàré as this city is known, is a place of indescribable filth. The suffering dwellers have been given to inhuman habits and mindless existence under the rule of a dynasty of idiot kings and gluttonous lawmakers. Bursting with a spirit of chivalry, the travellers seek to restore civilization to the city - to stop the epidemic vices and other vile practises; but laws are soon made to permanently expel the sojourners from Èdìdàré.
Download or read book African Writers written by C. Brian Cox and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political contexts for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 16 sets comprising this series. Two volumes of original essays present 65 African writers from 17 countries writing in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and indigenous languages. Subjects span the late 19th century to the present. Included are Najib Mahfuz, Andre Brink, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Alan Paton and many more.
Book Synopsis Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives by : Donald R. Wehrs
Download or read book Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives written by Donald R. Wehrs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.
Book Synopsis Amos Tutuola Revisited by : Oyekan Owomoyela
Download or read book Amos Tutuola Revisited written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His honors range from winning the Grimzane and Cavour Prize (Italy) and awards from Pan-African and Nigerian cultural associations to being given honorary citizenship to the city of New Orleans." "Oyekan Owomoyela's study, the first full-length analysis of Tutuola to be written by someone from his own ethnic group, the Yoruba of south-west Nigeria, provides a knowledgeable overview of Yoruba verbal art, particularly the myths, legends, folk tales, and proverbs that Tutuola used in his writing. Owomoyela takes a thematic approach and comprehensively addresses the wide spectrum of criticism that Tutuola's writing has received."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Research on Wole Soyinka by : James Gibbs
Download or read book Research on Wole Soyinka written by James Gibbs and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad introduction to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer and the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represented, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture (linguistic, structural, and textual approaches) to those focusing on cultural context (historical, mythological, and comparative studies). Most of the articles were originally published in Research in African Literatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Nigerian Field by : Edwin Felix Gray Haig
Download or read book The Nigerian Field written by Edwin Felix Gray Haig and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: "Society notices."
Download or read book Cahiers d'études africaines written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Research in African Literatures by :
Download or read book Research in African Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
