| Description |
1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Time and Season -- Blood and Mouth -- Snake and Bible -- Mamas and Money -- Big Daddy in the Jungle -- Becoming Yoruba -- Herbs and Charms -- Village Politics -- Seasonal Pleasures -- The Pastor's Ordeal. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?"--Ama Ata Aidoo "A splendid coming-of-age story so full of vivid color and emotion, the words seem to dance off the page. But this is not only Falola's memoir; it is an account of a new nation coming into being and the tensions and negotiations that invariably occur between city and country, tradition and modernity, men and women, rich and poor. A truly beautiful book."--Robin D.G. Kelley "More than a personal memoir, this book is a rich minihistory of contemporary Nigeria recorded in delicious detail by a perceptive eyewitness who grew up at the crossroads of many cultures."--Bernth Lindfors "The reader is irresistibly drawn into Falola's world. The prose is lucid. There is humor. This work is sweet. Period."--Ngugi wa Thiongo'o A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt gathers the stories and reflections of the early years of Toyin Falola, the grand historian of Africa and one of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria. Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola miraculously weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural developments in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria's independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century. This is truly a literary memoir, told in language rich with proverbs, poetry, song, and humor. Falola's memoir is far more than the story of one man's childhood experiences; rather, he presents us with the riches of an entire culture and community-its history, traditions, pleasures, mysteries, household arrangements, forms of power, struggles, and transformations. |
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Falola, Toyin -- Childhood and youth.
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Falola, Toyin. (OCoLC)fst00143150
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Nigerian Americans -- Biography.
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Nigeria -- Biography.
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Nigeria -- History -- 1960-
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Nigeria -- Social conditions -- 1960-
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College teachers -- Texas -- Austin -- Biography.
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HISTORY.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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College teachers. (OCoLC)fst00868114
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Nigerian Americans. (OCoLC)fst01037585
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Nigeria. (OCoLC)fst01205229
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Texas -- Austin.
(OCoLC)fst01204313
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1960
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Falola, Toyin. Mouth sweeter than salt. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2003026184 (OCoLC)53901463 |
| ISBN |
9780472025558 (electronic bk.) |
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0472025554 (electronic bk.) |
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