{"id":15385,"date":"2021-06-18T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=15385"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:14","slug":"oral-literary-performance-in-africa-beyond-text-edited-by-nduka-otiono-chiji-akoma-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2021\/oral-literary-performance-in-africa-beyond-text-edited-by-nduka-otiono-chiji-akoma-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Edited By Nduka Otiono, Chiji Ak\u1ecdma is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Edited By Nduka Otiono, Chiji Ak\u1ecdma is out!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.routledge.com\/common\/jackets\/amazon\/978036748\/9780367482145.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Professor Nduka Otiono on the publication of <strong>Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text <\/strong>Edited By <a title=\"Search for more titles by Nduka Otiono\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/search?author=Nduka%20Otiono\" aria-label=\"Search for more titles by Nduka Otiono\">Nduka Otiono,<\/a> Carleton University, Canada and <a title=\"Search for more titles by Chiji Ak\u1ecdma\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/search?author=Chiji%20Ak%E1%BB%8Dma\" aria-label=\"Search for more titles by Chiji Ak\u1ecdma\">Chiji Ak\u1ecdma<\/a>, Villanova University, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 9780367482145<br>\nPublished June 18, 2021 by Routledge<br>\n300 Pages 6 B\/W Illustrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Oral-Literary-Performance-in-Africa-Beyond-Text\/Otiono-Akoma\/p\/book\/9780367482145\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Professor Nduka Otiono on the publication of Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Edited By Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Canada and Chiji Ak\u1ecdma, Villanova University, USA. This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15392,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions\/15392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}