African discourse in Islam, oral traditions, and performance
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
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New York
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: Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 183 p.
SERIES
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(African studies)
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Bibliography
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Elaloro: A Yoruba indigenous discourse on criticism and interpretation -- aoElaalaooraoo and translation -- Some thoughts on traditional Hausa aesthetics and Arabic influence on Yorubaa 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 -- Yorubaa Egungun : some critical thoughts -- Traditional oral genre in a Muslim Ilorin : survival challenges -- Mamman Shata Katsina and Omoekee Amao Ilorin : Islam, performance, and orality.