Power and Marginality in Contemporary Cameroonian Orature - Paperback

by Kashim Ibrahim Tala (Author)

Power and Marginality in Contemporary Cameroonian Orature is an important book in the development of Cameroon literary criticism with reference to orature. With a particular accent on popular songs/ protest music, Professor Emeritus Kashim Ibrahim Tala's perceptive analysis invites the readers to see the socio-economic inequities of the Cameroonian society, its material/historical reality. If one adds this significant critical work on orature to the existing major critical works on written Cameroon literature in English, one comes close to having a comprehensive picture of Anglophone Cameroon literary criticism as exists today. It is a text that every student, researcher, and scholar of Cameroon literature should possess. Professor Shadrach Ambanasom, The University of Bamenda

Author Biography

Kashim Ibrahim TALA, generally considered as the Doyen of Oral Literature Studies in Cameroon, is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Ecoculture at the University of Buea. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Yaounde 1, the University of Dschang, and the University of Bamenda. His publications include: The Trickster in Hausa Oral Narratives (1982), An Introduction to Cameroon Oral Literature (1984), Demystifying African Myths (1987), The Oral Tale in Africa (1989), Orature in Africa (1999), and numerous articles in national and international journals. He is also President of the American Institute of Cameroon. and a distinguished Life-Time Member of the Cameroon English Language and Literature Association (CELLA), which organizes an Annual Lecture in honour of his significant contribution to education and scholarship in Cameroon.