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A mouth sweeter than salt : an African memoir / by Toyin Falola.

Title
A mouth sweeter than salt : an African memoir / by Toyin Falola.
Author
Falola, Toyin
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.

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Description
271 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"A mouth sweeter than salt gathers the stories and reflections of the early years of Toyin Falola, the grand historian of Africa and one of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria." "Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural developments in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria's independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century."--Jacket.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Falola, Toyin > Childhood and youth
  • Since 1960
  • Nigerian Americans > Biography
  • College teachers > Texas > Austin > Biography
  • Nigeria > Biography
  • Nigeria > History > 1960-
  • Nigeria > Social conditions > 1960-
Genre/Form
Erlebnisbericht.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Time and Season -- Blood and Mouth -- Snake and Bible -- Mamas and Money -- Big Daddy in the Jungle -- Becoming Yoruba -- Herbs and Charms -- Village Politics -- Seasonal Pleasures -- The Pastor's Ordeal.
ISBN
0472114018 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003026184
OCLC
  • 53901463
  • SCSB-10361853
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library