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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Awo, the Legend
Author: Awo Awo Awo
Author: Awo the Legend 1909-1987 : Tributes and Philosophies
Author: Awo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789783035607
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Odu
Author: Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Author: Wale AdebanwiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Awo
Author: Aiyékòótó
Author: Victor Olabisi OnabanjoPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Nigeria
Author: Femi Ade OgbontibaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The African Palimpsest
Author: Chantal J. ZabusPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of `indigenization? whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively `African'. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest ? a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again ? the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro?Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film.Hailed as a classic in the 1990s, The African Palimpsest is here reprinted in a completely revised edition, with a new Introduction, updated data and bibliography, and with due consideration of more recent theoretical approaches.'A very valuable book ? a detailed exploration in its concern with language change as demonstrated in post-colonial African literatures? Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales ?Apart from its great documentary value, The African Palimpsest provides many theoretical concepts that will be useful to scholars of African literatures, linguists in general ? as well as comparatists who want to gain fresh insights into the processes by which Vulgar Latin once gave birth to the Romance languages.' Ahmed Sheikh Bangura, University of California, Santa Barbara ?As Zabus? book suggests, it is the area where the various languages of a community meet and cross-over ? that is likely to provide the most productive site for the generation of a new literature that is true to the real linguistic situation that pertains in so much of contemporary urban Africa.' Stewart Brown, University of Birmingham