It is written in standard modern Yoruba orthography, offering both the contracted and uncontracted forms of the entries, with fastidious attention to tonal language. This collection of Yoruba proverbs is the most complete and authoritative study that has ever been made available to the reading public and the scholarly community.

Boards show minor handling marks, free of stickers and labels. Short creases in side margin of first pages (pp iii-12), else interior is very good: clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text, firmly bound. An external stamp on all outer page edges, internal ownership markings on front endpaper (pencil numbers) and rear endpaper/pastedown (a pocket, stamps and labels according to the date-due slip the book was checked out four times). Ex-learning resource center, marked 'withdrawn'. He is the editor of 'A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures' (Nebraska 1993).University Press of America, 1987. Oyekan Owomoyela is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He then returned to Liberia, where he died in 1934 of tuberculosis contracted when in the United States.

He continued his studies in the United States, earning a Bachelor of Arts at Oberlin College in 1893. Walters, a Vai born in Liberia in the 1860s, was first educated in Robertsport, Liberia. When she cannot fight, she flees, encountering fierce anti-feminine practices everywhere she goes. Guanya must combat his eagerness, her mother's wish, and a tribal tradition that is as entrenched as it is oppressive. Worse, he is a polygamist, compensating for his own ugliness with the beauty of many wives. 'Guanya Pau' deals with the desire of Guanya, an African princess, to escape a repulsive fate: betrothal to a wealthy man twenty years older than she. Its subject and the author's outlook make it remarkably modern. Walters's 'Guanya Pau' can be reread in the context of a varied and vigorous African literature.

Now, reissued a century after its first publication, Joseph J. The first novel ever published by an African has, until now, been lost in rare book collections, unknown to scholars and public alike. Origins are often obscure and beginnings easily forgotten.

Guanya Pau by Joseph J. Walters