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Yoruba creativity : fiction, language, life and songs
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Africa Conference (Tex.) (2004 : University of Texas at Austin)
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- Creator
- edited by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1592213359, 9781592213351, 1592213367, 9781592213368
- OCLC
- ocm57193070
- Papers originally presented at an international conference on Perspectives on Yoruba History and Culture, held at the University of Texas at Austin, Mar. 26-28, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Back on The road again: Soyinka's Professor and Vodou's Baron Samedi / Chris Dunton -- A jolly bad fellow: Soyinka's activities in 1960-1961 / Bernth Lindfors -- Of feminism and Yoruba gender relations: a study of Wole Soyinka / 'Tunji Azeez -- Death and the king's horseman: Soyinka's defense of the Yoruba cosmology and culture / Olusegun Adekoya -- Sweetness: a trap or freedom in Zulu Sofola's The sweet trap / Juluette Bartlett-Pack -- The popular Yoruba traveling theater / Gabriel Adekola Oyewo -- History and dramatic fiction: Rotimi's Kurunmi and the nineteenth century Ijaiye War / Patrick J. Ebewo -- Understanding Yoruba art and culture through ethnography / Chris Adejumo -- When a mouth is sweeter than salt: Toyin Falola and the autophylographical genre / Adetayo Alabi -- Ààbò Òrò: the indigenous language of education in Yoruba / Michael O. Afoláyan -- The nature of Yoruba intonation: a new experimental study / Eunice Fajobi -- Modification of Yoruba numeral system for use in science, technology and mathematics / Kayode J. Fakinlede -- Implications of vowel lengthening to learners of Yoruba as a second language / Fehintola Mosadomi -- Yoruba studies in the United States / Harrison Adeniyi -- The place of culture in a world dictionary of the Yoruba language / Mark Y. Liberman and Yiwola Awoyale -- The phenomenon of new idioms in Yorùbá literary and routine communication / Adéṣọlá Ọlátẹ́jú -- Some Yorùbá social realities in selected songs of Hárúnà Ìshòlá / Dapo Adepoju -- Fela Ransome-Kuti: black icons and issues of representation / Olivier Jean Tchouaffe -- I of the valiant stock: Yoruba bridal chant and the autobiographical genre / Adetayo Alabi