IBA Essays on African Literature in Honour of Oyin Ogunba

This Festschrift, containing twenty-two essays by African scholars of African literature, is published as a tribute to Oyin Gunba, a renowned scholar of African literature, specifically oral literature and drama. The contributors include Femi Osofisan, Ahmed Yerima, Ayo Kehinde and Niyi Osundare. Some subjects broached are the development of a cultural economy in Africa; the early plays of Osofisan; language and identity in African drama; cross-cultural engagement in Remi Raji's travel poetry; classifying Yoruba oral poetry; and Yoruba cultural nationalism.Ogundele, Wole is the author of 'IBA Essays on African Literature in Honour of Oyin Ogunba', published 2003 under ISBN 9789781361364 and ISBN 9781361360.