A Selection of African Prose Vol 1: Traditional Oral Texts compiled by W.H. Whiteley [U.K. FIRST EDITION] 1964 • Oxford

A Selection of African Prose Volume 1: Traditional Oral Texts compiled by W.H. Whiteley (The Oxford Library of African Literature) U.K. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1964] OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Hardcover with dust jacket in stunning condition. A mint cloth-bound hardcover in an even more stunning dust jacket.  Pristine matte jacket now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.  Reads like new! The task of recording oral compositions before they are lost to memory, and of providing a basis for future literary studies of Africa, is a specially urgent one for scholars of the present generation, for African literature which has appeared in print is only a tiny fragment of the whole. This library offers a selection of African poetry and prose chosen irrespective of time and place of composition. Each volume from a particular people introduces the society in which the works have been created, and describes their literary and linguistic characteristics. Annotated translations, o