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Article: Talking With Paper - Nigeria's huge Onitsha Market provided a forum for the germination and evolution of an indigenous African popular literature.(Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice and Mad English: African Market Literature)
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- The World and I
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- June 1, 2002
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Charles R. Larson is professor of literature at American University. He has recently published The Ordeal of the African Writer (Zed Books, 2001).
Book Info:LIFE TURNS MAN UP AND DOWN
High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English: African Market Literature
Edited by Kurt Thometz
Publisher:New York: Pantheon, 2001
356 pp., $26.95
The wildest books you'll ever read? Horatio Alger novels, published in the late part of the nineteenth century in the United States, and Onitsha pamphlets, published in the aftermath of World War II by Nigerian printers. This popular African literature gained its name because it was originally sold at Nigeria's enormous Onitsha ...