Research in African Literatures

Volume 25
Number 3Women as Oral Artists

CONTENTS Volume 25, Number 3 Fall 1994

Special Issue: Women as Oral Artists

Essays

Chinyere Grace Okafor
From the Heart of Masculinity: Ogbodo-Uke's Women's Masking

Grace Eche Okereke
The Birth Song as a Medium for Communicating Woman's Maternal Destiny in the Traditional Community

Ropo Sekoni
Yoruba Market Dynamics and the Aesthetics of Negotiation in Female Precolonial Narrative Tradition

Helen Nabasuta Mugambi
Intersections: Gender, Orality, Text, and Female Space in Contemporary Kiganda Radio Songs

Thomas A. Hale
Griottes: Female Voices from West Africa

Mbye Cham
African Women and Cinema: A Conversation with Anne Mungai

Ode S. Ogede
Counters to Male Domination: Images of Pain in Igede Women's Songs

Awuor Ayodo
Definitions of the Self in Luo Women's Orature

Lekan Oyegoke
"Sade's Testimony": A New Genre of Autobiography in African Folklore

Akosua Anyidoho
Tradition and Innovation in Nnwonkoro, an Akan Female Verbal Genre

Commentary

Bill Ashcroft
Africa and Australia: The Post-Colonial Connection

Max Dorsinville with George Lang
Remembering Roger Dorsinville

Alain Ricard
Why Read Politique africaine?

Note

Jack Fellman
Ethiopa's Second Novel


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