Ajantala Other Yoruba Folktales
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Ajantala Other Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Ajantala And Other Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-04
Ajantala And Other Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-04 with categories.
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
Ajantala And Other Yoruba Folktales
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Ajantala And Other Yoruba Folktales written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with categories.
Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Amos Tutuola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Yoruba Folktales written by Amos Tutuola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Kini Kini Bird And More Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12
The Kini Kini Bird And More Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Reference categories.
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.
King Chameleon And More West African Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12
King Chameleon And More West African Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Reference categories.
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.
The Foo Foo Tree And More Efik Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12
The Foo Foo Tree And More Efik Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Reference categories.
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.
Comparative Approaches To African Literatures
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Author : Bernth Lindfors
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-20
Comparative Approaches To African Literatures written by Bernth Lindfors and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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).
Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Amos Tutuola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Yoruba Folktales written by Amos Tutuola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Fiction categories.
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.
Yoruba Legends
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2010-07
Yoruba Legends written by Various and has been published by Abela Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Fiction categories.
NOTE: This book has been illustrated and published by the students of Edgbarrow School in Berkshire, England as a special project to raise funds for their Ghana Sponsorship campaign. DESCRIPTION: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. In this volume you will find 31 stories and tales like: AKITI THE HUNTER, SONS OF STICKS, WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIR THE LEOPARD-MAN, THE COOKING POT and many more. You also will find a further nine stories of the adventures of Tortoise and the many mischievous things he gets up to. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of a race of people. In modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate!