Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts

by Karin Barber

First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqu? escapades, pious moralising and vivid evocations of urban popular culture. The narrative and the commentary that sprang up around it in the Yoruba press offer a unique view of life in colonial Lagos. Today it is recognised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004229159
• ISBN13: 9789004229150
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"