Research in African Literatures, Volume 35African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, University of Texas [at Austin, 2004 - Africa Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt. |
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Page 93
... bards in the palace of the Aláàfin of Òyó , a prominent Yorùbá ruler , as a case study , this paper explains how the bards employ poetic skills and diplomacy in discharging this difficult responsibility . It is my claim in this paper ...
... bards in the palace of the Aláàfin of Òyó , a prominent Yorùbá ruler , as a case study , this paper explains how the bards employ poetic skills and diplomacy in discharging this difficult responsibility . It is my claim in this paper ...
Page 94
... bards . According to Farias , the bards now " combine their hereditary calling with other professions , as barbers , tailors , weavers , farmers , " although if summoned to the palace by the king , " every other activity is dropped ...
... bards . According to Farias , the bards now " combine their hereditary calling with other professions , as barbers , tailors , weavers , farmers , " although if summoned to the palace by the king , " every other activity is dropped ...
Page 109
... bards occasionally express the minds of the commoners when commenting on current events in their community . While it is true that Yorùbá court bards of old depended , to some extent , on royal patronage , we must also admit that a ...
... bards occasionally express the minds of the commoners when commenting on current events in their community . While it is true that Yorùbá court bards of old depended , to some extent , on royal patronage , we must also admit that a ...
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Adéníran AFRICAN LITERATURES Aláàfin Algerian Anne Eisner Apartheid Assia Djebar Bhabha's Caribbean characters Christopher Okigbo colonial context court bards critical cultural Dahomey discourse Djebar Doguicimi Ego's Emecheta's emphasis added English essay Èsù exile father female feminist fiction Fikria's francophone French gender Gikuyu girl Hountondji husband Ibadan identity imbongi interpretation Islam Ken's king Krio language linguistic literary London male Manisi Mbuti Mehring Mehring's MLA Style Manual modern mother Muslim narrative narrator narrator's Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nigeria Nnu Ego Nongqawuse novel Ògboja Okigbo oral òrìsà Othello Òyó perspective poem poetry poets political position postcolonial praise protagonist Pygmies Qamata Qur'an Research in African role Roumain royal messengers sexual silence Silent Sisters social society South African specific story symbolic Thembu tion traditional Ugbabe University voyeuse interdite West African Western woman women words writing Xhosa Yorùbá