Perspectives on African Literature: Selections from the Proceedings, 10. köideChristopher Heywood Africana Publishing Corporation, 1971 - 175 pages |
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... stories over Radio Nigeria , first by the late D. O. Alabi , and 7 Here is a summary of a version of the songs that usually form parts of the narration of the three stories : each gives the basic plot of the story : sin get back 0 dodo ...
... stories over Radio Nigeria , first by the late D. O. Alabi , and 7 Here is a summary of a version of the songs that usually form parts of the narration of the three stories : each gives the basic plot of the story : sin get back 0 dodo ...
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... stories is revealing : Tutuola's story of the half - bodied baby I A child that rose from the ashes of a house burnt down by the hero as the hero's wife looked for her trinkets in the ashes 2 A miraculous half - bodied child 3 Performed ...
... stories is revealing : Tutuola's story of the half - bodied baby I A child that rose from the ashes of a house burnt down by the hero as the hero's wife looked for her trinkets in the ashes 2 A miraculous half - bodied child 3 Performed ...
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... story in the traditional way but also does so in his own personal manner . It appears that the features of the monomyth in his plot pointed out by Gerald Moore derive from the traditional plot of the stories in Yoruba folklore . It ...
... story in the traditional way but also does so in his own personal manner . It appears that the features of the monomyth in his plot pointed out by Gerald Moore derive from the traditional plot of the stories in Yoruba folklore . It ...
Contents
Literature | 9 |
LALAGE BOWN The Development of African Prose | 33 |
A AFOLAYAN Language and Sources of Amos | 49 |
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