The African Imagination (Pocket)
avAbiola Irele, F. Abiola Irele, Abiola Irele
ISBN: 9780195086195 - UTGIVEN: 2001-09This collection of essays by one of Africa's leading scholars examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context. Here F. Abiola Irele presents probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hapae Ba, and A[...]
African Philosophy (Häftad)
avPaulin J. Houtondji, Abiola Irele
ISBN: 9780253210968 - UTGIVEN: 1996-06In this incisive, original exploration of the nature and future of African philosophy, Paulin J. Hountondji attacks a myth popularized by ethno-philosophers such as Placide Tempels and Alexis Kagame that there is an indigenous, collective African philosophy separate and distinct from the Western phi[...]
Things Fall Apart (Pocket)
avChinua Achebe, Francis Abiola Irele, Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780393932195 - UTGIVEN: 200812This "Norton Critical Edition" celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The text has been annotated for enhanced comprehension. The expansive 'Contexts and Criticism' section includes three interviews with Chinua Achebe as well as essays and response[...]
The Fortunes of Wangrin (Pocket)
avAmadou Hampate Ba, Aina Pavolini (TRN) Taylor, F. Abiola (INT) Irele
ISBN: 9780253212269 - UTGIVEN: 2000-03The first thing to be said about Wangrin is that he is a rogue. Whatever forces, traditional or colonial, that shaped him, he is, above all, a very human rogue. He is also an operator, working both the colonial French and his own people. He is funny, outrageous, corrupt, traditional, and memorable. [...]
