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Yoruba Fiction, Orature and Culture

Oyekan Owomoyela and African Literature & the Yoruba Experience

ISBN-13: 9781592217922

Contributor(s): Toyin Falola (edited by), Adebayo Oyebade (edited by)

Subjects: African Studies (Regional)

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 21-07-2011

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£39.95

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About the book

Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field of African literature and a foremost authority on Yoruban traditional literary forms in particular. Consisting of 27 scholarly essays covering Owomoyela's work, this illuminating collection honours his life's work. The contributors are all noted scholars and represent a comprehensive cross-section of the humanities, offering fresh, multi-disciplinary interpretations of the Yoruban cultural experience.

Yoruba Fiction, Orature and Culture

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