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Yoruba Trickster Tales
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Oyekan Owomoyela
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters
Folk Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Ropo Sekoni
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-05-25 - Publisher: Praeger

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Sekoni describes and explains what makes the trickster tale a trickster tale using a semiotic analysis.
Yoruba Myths
Language: en
Pages: 106
Authors: Ulli Beier
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980-10-02 - Publisher: CUP Archive

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This mysterious, poetic and often amusing collection of myths illustrates the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People.
Yoruba Folktales
Language: en
Pages: 68
Authors: Amos Tutuola
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher:

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The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This bo
Yoruba Proverbs
Language: en
Pages: 515
Authors: Oyekan Owomoyela
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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"Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan