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DIED. AMOS TUTUOLA, 77, Nigerian novelist who foraged into Yoruba folklore for his grisly tales; in Ibadan, Nigeria. In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard, a wino travels to the afterworld and battles a horned monster to appease his hellish thirst...
...village rituals, particularly the tradition of the egungun, the ancestral spirits who can be summoned whenever their masks are displayed at local festivals. For a time, the boy had the best of both worlds: the sensuous, + imaginative life of Africa and a Western education, first at college in Ibadan near his village and then at the University of Leeds in Britain, where he earned a B.A. in English literature in 1957. After graduation he worked as a teacher and scriptwriter for London's Royal Court Theater, where some of his early sketches and short plays were performed...
...movement. She tells us in her introduction that her goal is "not only to change drastically our own powerless status worldwide, but redefine all existing social structures. Her sentiment, echoed over and over is perhaps best expressed by Mola Ogundipe-Leslie, a professor of English at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria: "It would seem that I am arguing that men are the enemy. No, men are not the enemy. The enemy is the total societal system, which is a jumble of neocolonial and feudalistic, even slave-holding, structures and social attitudes. As women's liberation is but an aspect...
Dike served as senior research fellow at the West African Institute of Social and Economic Research at Nigeria's Ibadan University from...
Four Penn students will study in Ibadan next semester...