The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945

Oyekan Owomoyela

December, 2008
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12686-1
$85.00 / £58.50

Part 1. The Literary and Cultural Content of West African Literature in English

Part 2. West African Literature A-Z

Part 3. Writers and Selected Works

Index

Related Subjects

• Reference

Series

• Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945

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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