I Could Speak Until Tomorrow Oriki, Women and the Past in a Yoruba Town - International African Library

Karin Barber, International African Institute

Hardback (25 Apr 1991)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In Yoruba culture oriki, or oral praise poetry, is a major part of both traditional performance and daily life, and as such reflects social change and structure both past and present. Karin Barber studies the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria. She shows how women, the main performers of the oriki, interpret the poems and examines the links it gives them between living and dead, human and spiritual, and present and past.

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ISBN:	9780748602100
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:	25 Apr 1991
DEWEY:	896.3331
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	432
Weight:	689g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	30mm