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Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue To Memory Paperback - 1999
by Warner-Lewis, Maureen
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- Title Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue To Memory
- Author Warner-Lewis, Maureen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 279
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of the West Indies Press, Kingston:
- Date 1999-05-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9766400547.G
- ISBN 9789766400545 / 9766400547
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.68 in (22.91 x 15.19 x 1.73 cm)
- Reading level 1450
- Dewey Decimal Code 496.333
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The Yoruba of West Africa are one of the largest sub-Saharan ethnic groups; their art, their urban-type population concentrations, and the complexity of their religious and divinatory systems have earned them prominence among nonliterate social formations and cultures.
From the rear cover
Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new ground in addressing the experience of Africans in one locale of the Africa diaspora and examines the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was successively retained, modified, and discarded in a European-dominated island community.