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A mouth sweeter than salt :

(Number (ISBN

0472025554

(Number (ISBN

1282593978

(Number (ISBN

6612593970

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9780472025558

(Number (ISBN

9781282593978

(Number (ISBN

9786612593970

Erroneous ISBN

0472031325

Erroneous ISBN

0472114018

Erroneous ISBN

9780472031320

Erroneous ISBN

9780472114016

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b754723

Title Proper

A mouth sweeter than salt :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

an African memoir /

First Statement of Responsibility

by Toyin Falola.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ann Arbor :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Text of Note

"Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?"--Ama Ata Aidoo "A splendid coming-of-age story so full of vivid color and emotion, the words seem to dance off the page. But this is not only Falola's memoir; it is an account of a new nation coming into being and the tensions and negotiations that invariably occur between city and country, tradition and modernity, men and women, rich and poor. A truly beautiful book."--Robin D.G. Kelley "More than a personal memoir, this book is a rich minihistory of contemporary Nigeria recorded in delicious detail by a perceptive eyewitness who grew up at the crossroads of many cultures."--Bernth Lindfors "The reader is irresistibly drawn into Falola's world. The prose is lucid. There is humor. This work is sweet. Period."--Ngugi wa Thiongo'o A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt gathers the stories and reflections of the early years of Toyin Falola, the grand historian of Africa and one of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria. Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola miraculously weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural developments in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria's independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century. This is truly a literary memoir, told in language rich with proverbs, poetry, song, and humor. Falola's memoir is far more than the story of one man's childhood experiences; rather, he presents us with the riches of an entire culture and community-its history, traditions, pleasures, mysteries, household arrangements, forms of power, struggles, and transformations.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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00027280

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

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22573/ctt1d3kcnt

Title

A mouth sweeter than salt

International Standard Book Number

0472114018 (cloth : alk. paper)

Falola, Toyin-- Childhood and youth.

Falola, Toyin

College teachers-- Texas-- Austin, Biography.

Nigerian Americans, Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

College teachers

HISTORY.

Nigerian Americans

Social conditions.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.

Nigeria, Biography.

Nigeria, History, 1960-

Nigeria, Social conditions, 1960-

Nigeria

Texas, Austin

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Edition

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Falola, Toyin.

Date of Transaction

20201204143444.0

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