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Oral Litterature and Identity Information in Africa and the Diaspora

• Introduction - Okpewho I. p. v-xxiii
• Affirming the Subaltern: The Contribution of J. D. Eider - Warner-Lewis M. p. 1-7
• An Oral Philosophy of Personhood: Comments on Philosophy and Orality - Wiredu K. p. 8-18
• Subversion of Patriarchal Ideology: A Case Study of Magdalene, a Woman Oral Narrative Performer from the Samburu of Kenya - Osaaji M. G. p. 19-26
• Asante Traditions and Female Self-Assertion: Sister Abena's Narrative - Stoeltje B. J. p. 27-41
• Niger and Sarraounia: One Hundred Years of Forgetting Female Leadership - Tidjani-Alou A. p. 42-56
• Oral Literature as Moral Guide: "Sunba" in Contemporary Media - Tamari T. p. 57-73
• Negotiating Time, Space, and Spirit: A Case Study of Oral Tradition and the Construction of Lineage Identity in West Africa - Fergus C. p. 74-85
• Verbal Miscues or Cultural Agency? Icheoku: An Introduction - Akoma C. p. 86-96
• African Diaspora Vernacular Traditions and the Dilemma of Identity - Mclaren J. p. 97-111
• African American Belief Narratives and the African Cultural Tradition - Roberts J. p. 112-126
• Context and Meaning in Trinidad Yoruba Songs: Peter Was a Fisherman and Songs of the Orisha Palais - Aiyejina F., Gibbons R., Phills B. S p. 127-136
• Trinidad Calypso as Postmodernism in the Diaspora : Linking Rythms, Lyrics, and the Ancestral Spririts - Toussaint M. p. 137-144
• On Seeing Africa for the First Time: Orality, Memory, and the Diaspora in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me by My Rightful Name - Alabi A. p. 145-155
• From Formalism to Ideology: Toward a Creole Narrative Grammar - Haring L. p. 156-165
• Book Reviews. Women as Artists in Contemporary Zimbabwe, by Kerstin Boltz, ed. Susan Arndt, Eckard Breitinger, and Marek Spitczok von BrisinskiTheatre, Performance and New Media in Africa, 2007 - Kerr D. p. 166-170
• Book Reviews. Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean, by Mildred Mortimer, 2007 - Praud J. p. 170-171
• Book Reviews. Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts, by Chantal Zabus 2007 - Accad E. p. 171-172
• Book Reviews. Manifeste d'une nouvelle littérature africaine: pour une littérature préemptive, by Patrice Nganang 2007 - Miller C. L. p. 173-177
• Book Reviews. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature, by James Currey 2008 - Gray S. p. 177-180