African discourse in Islam, oral traditions, and performance
New York
Routledge
African studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abdul - Rasheed Na'Allah
Elaloro: A Yoruba indigenous discourse on criticism and interpretation -- Elaloro and translation -- Some thoughts on traditional Hausa aesthetics and Arabic influence on Yoruba and Hausa written traditions in Nigeria -- Horses of memory and The word is an egg: Osundare's poetic voices -- Cultural poetics, African diaspora, and the global world: Tanure Ojaide's I want to dance and other poems -- African cultural revival as an important message in Death and the king's horseman and The lion and the jewel -- Language and culture in an African adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex -- Yoruba Egungun: some critical thoughts -- Traditional oral genre in a Muslim Ilorin: survival challenges -- Mamman Shata Katsina and Omoekee Amao Ilorin: Islam, performance, and orality