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      Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas’s ‘Life Story of Me, Segilola’ and other texts

      Karin Barber

      This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas’s pioneering work, The Life-Story of Me, Segilola , first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos…

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      Africa’s Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self

      Colonial Africa saw an explosion of writing and printing. This book considers the profusion of literary culture, the propensity to collect and archive text, and the significance attached to reading…

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      I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women and the Past in a Yoruba Town

      Karin Barber

      A study of oriki, or oral praise poetry, which is a major part of both traditional performance and daily Yoruba life.

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      The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater

      Karin Barber

      From the 1940s to the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre was one of the most spectacularly successful theatres in Africa. This title recounts the history of the Odin Adejo Theatre Company…

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      The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics

      Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

      What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? What role do texts play in shaping societies and individuals? Engaging and throught-provoking…

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      The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics

      Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

      What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? What role do texts play in shaping societies and individuals? Engaging and throught-provoking…

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      A History of African Popular Culture

      Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

      In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, songs, dance, poetry, jokes and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. It…

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      A History of African Popular Culture

      Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

      In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, songs, dance, poetry, jokes and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. It…

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      Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

      Karin Barber

      This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook…

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      West African Popular Theatre

      Karin Barber,John Collins,Alain Ricard

      This text provides a view from below on the new forms of theatre in West Africa. Throughout, the voices of the theatre practitioners are heard, reminiscing, explaining, philosophizing and grumbling…

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      West African Popular Theatre

      Karin Barber,John Collins,Alain Ricard

      This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of…

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      Reading from the South

      Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall, Sunil Amrith, Gabeba Baderoon, Karin Barber, Rimli Bhattacharya, Antoinette Burton, Pumla Dineo Gqola

      This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa's foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr's path-breaking studies of…

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      Reading from the South

      Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall, Sunil Amrith, Gabeba Baderoon, Karin Barber, Rimli Bhattacharya, Antoinette Burton, Pumla Dineo Gqola

      Draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South's leading scholars of African print…

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