A Study of Proverbs in Things Fall Apart and Sundiata; An Epic of Old Mali (Sundiata)

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dc.contributor.advisorAwedoba, A.K.
dc.contributor.advisorNanbigne, A.K.
dc.contributor.authorAdjandeh, E.A
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Ghana, College of Humanities, Institute of African StudieS
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-01T12:33:34Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-14T02:45:09Z
dc.date.available2016-11-01T12:33:34Z
dc.date.available2017-10-14T02:45:09Z
dc.date.issued2014-07
dc.descriptionThesis (MPhil) - University of Ghana,2014
dc.description.abstractLiterature in general, just as the other art forms, opens a window into the cultural characteristics of a society. A culture of a particular group is established linguistically through narrative exchange that determines the relevance of belief systems which hold the people together (Finnegan 1970). To understand a culture, particularly one in which orality is still a predominant form of recording history and phenomena, one requires some acquaintance with its oral forms (Nwachuku-Agbada, 1994:194). As a group of people survive in a particular society, they continually foster their own relevant customs through different modes such as proverbs, songs, symbols, folktales and mythologies among others. These literary works express ideas and the concerns of the people at the time. One of such literary types which is well known in literary genre and often used to decode the culture of a people is proverbs. These proverbs often connote (historical) antecedents, customs, as well as the hopes, desires and fears of the people. This thesis therefore analyzed the proverbs in Things Fall Apart1 (henceforth) TFA and Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali2 (Sundiata for short) for an understanding of the Igbo and Mande cultures.en_US
dc.format.extentviii, 142p. Ill.
dc.identifier.urihttp://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/8845
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Ghanaen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Ghana
dc.subjectProverbsen_US
dc.subjectThings Fall Aparten_US
dc.subjectSundiataen_US
dc.subjectMalien_US
dc.titleA Study of Proverbs in Things Fall Apart and Sundiata; An Epic of Old Mali (Sundiata)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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