Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culture: Oyekan Owomoyela and African Literature & the Yoruba Experience

By Teodros Kiros

Oyekan Owomoyela, the late Ryan Professor of African Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a leading scholar in the field and a foremost authority on Yoruba traditional literary forms in particular. This festschrift is in honor of this prominent voice who, in a career spanning over 40 years, played a prominent role in the development of Yoruba literature and helped to confirm traditional African literature as an integral constituent of modern literature."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592217923
• ISBN13: 9781592217922
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
• Length: 462 Pages