A Selection of African Prose: A Traditional Oral Texts - Compiled by W.H. Whiteley - 1964 Oxford University Press Hardback Reginald Stevens Kimball being descriptive of peoples

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A Selection of African Prose: A Traditional Oral Texts - Compiled by W.H. Whiteley - 1964 Oxford University Press Hardback Reginald Stevens Kimball being descriptive of peoplesCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Blurb: A nearly 50 year old collection of texts. 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