The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945
Oyekan Owomoyela
October, 2008
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12686-1
$85.00
/ £58.50
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2009
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About the Author
Oyekan Owomoyela (1938-2007) was Ryan Professor of African Literature and coordinator of African American and African Studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. A leading collector and scholar of the proverbs of the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, Owomoyela was the author of Yoruba Proverbs and Yoruba Trickster Tales, as well as the acclaimed A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures.
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