Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts by Karin Barber
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts
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Karin Barber
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Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts

Karin Barber

422 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced
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First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, The Life Story of Me, Segilola caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risque escapades, pious mora...

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