Histories of errancy: Oral Yoruba àbíkú texts and Soyinka's "abiku"

Research in African Literatures

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-74

  McCabe, Douglas ^a  

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DOI: 10.2979/RAL.2002.33.1.45     Document Type: Review

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