Not Even God is Ripe Enough

Not Even God is Ripe Enough
Author: Bakare Gbadamosi
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1968
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

Contains Yoruba stories full of amusement - includes lovers who escape in cooking pots, with wry retribution being the order of the day.

Uhuru's Fire

Uhuru's Fire
Author: Adrian Roscoe
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1977-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521290890

First published in 1977, this is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author examines work in verse, prose and drama, and discusses vernacular language problems, the role of oral literature and tradition and the varied responses to the struggle for freedom and its achievement. He argues that African literature is achieving its own inner dynamic, revealing a rapid spread of influences from one side of the continent to the other and a decrease in influences from the Western world. Part of his argument is based on a discussion of authors not yet known outside East and Central Africa, but whose works shows signs of great promise and originality. Dr Roscoe has close personal knowledge of many of the authors he discusses, as he has worked in East and Central African universities throughout the period of the literary awakening he discusses.

Beyond the Sahara

Beyond the Sahara
Author: Agbor Emmanuel
Publisher: Partridge Africa
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1482824736

Migration through the Sahara and the Mediterranean has been going on for decades. It was brought to the limelight by political upheavals in the Maghreb and Syria. Beyond the Sahara tells the story of a young Cameroonian who dreams of playing professional football in Europe. Not having the means to pay for a visa and an air ticket, he decides to defy the Sahara and the Mediterranean. The journey takes him from Cameroon through Nigeria in Boko Haram territory. He is rescued by Nigerian security forces and he enters the Republic of Niger. From there he enters Algeria and from Algeria they move on to Libya after losing a friend in the desert. He and his friend smuggle themselves into a merchant ship bound for Barcelona. They are identified and his friend is killed while he jumps into the sea in a desperate attempt to escape. Some of his companions are arrested and deported to Nigeria. The story criticizes the socio political situation in Africa and depicts many aspects of the African tradition. The man from Australia is your brother; the woman from Afghanistan is your sister; the man from Syria is your brother; the woman from America is your sister and the man from Africa is your brother too.

Yoruba Myths

Yoruba Myths
Author: Ulli Beier
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1980-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780521229951

This mysterious, poetic and often amusing collection of myths illustrates the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People.

Mother is Gold

Mother is Gold
Author: Adrian Roscoe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1971-07-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521080927

How did West African literature in English begin? What influences affected its birth and development? How much does it imitate European models? How is traditional African culture influencing modern writing? What kind of experiments are being tried? These are some of the questions, relevant to African writing throughout the continent, which this critical study discusses by examining the most significant work in verse, prose, drama, children's literature, journalism and political writing in West Africa. The author examines the writing of major figures such as Soyinka, Achebe, Okara, Clark, Tutuola and Ekwensi as well as that of authors whose work is not as widely known.

The Invention of Women

The Invention of Women
Author: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780816624416

The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.