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

This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas's pioneering work, "The Life-Story of Me, Segilola", first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos newspaper in 1929-30, but now acclaimed as the first Yoruba novel.

About the author

Karin Barber, Ph.D. (1979, University of Ife, Nigeria), is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on Yoruba culture. Her most recent book is The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Product details

• Authors: Karin Barber
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2012
• EAN: 9789004229150
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22915-0
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: African Sources for African Hi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories