When the moon was big, and other legends from New Guinea,

Beier, Ulli

Collins

Contemporary art in Africa

PALL MALL P.

Eighteen African creation myths from across the Continent--colorful answers by man to the problems of life and death--as valid as Genesis.

Origin of Life & Death: African Creation Myths

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Heinemann

Art in Nigeria School edition

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Cambridge University Press

Collected from many parts of Africa and from many different languages, the poems have been sympathetically translated into English. The music of an African tonal language can never be fully expressed in English. The poems in this collection come from widely different cultures, including the Yoruba and Ewe of West Africa, the Zulu and Bushmen of South Africa, the Galla and Swahili of East Africa and even the ancient Egyptians

African Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Return of the Gods

Yoruba Myths

This collection of myths - some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing - illustrate the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People. Interspersed with drawings by Georgina Beier of Yoruba motifs and collected and translated by authors and artists long-familiar with Yoruba culture, the myths are compiled and introduced here by Ulli Beier, who himself holds two Yoruba chieftaincy titles. Some are creation myths: these explain the division of the original God into the many orisha, or gods, and the development of their various functions. In the folk- or trickster-tales the orisha often assume different personalities whose actions and their consequences reveal the Yoruba wisdom and customs. This book makes the myths of an orally transmitted religion available as literature to Nigerian school children, who are often unfamiliar with their traditional mythology. It will also strengthen English interest in original African literature.

History & Criticism

Three Nigerian Plays

LIVINGSTONE, CHURCHILL

Introduction to African Literature

World Literature

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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