AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment.
Contents:
Prologue: People are people's medicine -- Greatness: Biographies, heroism, and memory -- Tributes: Orality and the poetics of praise -- Homage: Conversational mapping of words -- "Heavenly beings": The dead in the consciousness of the living -- Public intellectuals -- Living legends -- Literary figures -- Power of language -- Yoruba ethnogenesis -- Female imagination -- Success for women -- Cultural highway -- Folklorists and cultural brokers -- Institutional builders -- Giants of the nation -- Future of the present -- Protestography -- Images of cultures -- Paint, brush and words -- People are my garments -- Enlarging greatness -- Epilogue: The return of the spirit
Topic:
Africans--Biography--History and criticism Search this
