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Myth in Africa

Myth in Africa

Isidore Okpewho, Professor of Africana Studies English and Comparative Literature Isidore Okpewho — 1983
In this innovative study Dr Okpewho explores what he considers the essence of African traditions - myth - and examines its place in African life, literature and thought. Focusing on a number of tales from a selection of African countries, Dr Okpewho shows myth to be the basic imaginative resource from which the larger cultural values derive.
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