Tale of an African woman /

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Author / Creator:Jing, Thomas.
Imprint:Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (327 pages).
Language:English
Series:Langaa & African Studies Centre
African Studies Centre research series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219093
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ISBN:9789956716562
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Notes:English.
Print version record.
Summary:"The village of Yakiri has been cursed by ancestral wrath because of the treatment of Yaa, the first girl who wrestled her male goatherd peers to earn the right to be initiated into the society of manhood. Her struggle is taken up generations later by Yaya, the granddaughter of Tafan and Wirba. Orphaned like her forebear, Yaya becomes a star student in the village's primary school and promises to go far. But, ask the villagers, is it right to invest in an education for an African girl who may become the property of another village? An educated woman will abandon the farm where she is needed, wear high heels and try to order men around! In the midst of it all, one Irish missionary, living in Africa and for the most time with Africans, literally wiggles his way into hearts and minds. With his intervention, Yaya leaves the village to school in the city, but her troubles as a woman have not really begun." "Yarns of cultural borrowing, indigestion and transcendence reveal the simple and complex ways in which community matters are confronted and decided. This happens in shrines where seers are consulted and cowry shells thrown, in palm wine houses, but also around the school and presbytery. The untold stories and perspectives of girls and women burst through in illuminating and uplifting ways. Quarrels, squabbles, near collisions and mutual conversions give way to innovative traditions."--Jacket.
Other form:9956-558-09-5

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty One; Chapter Twenty Two; Chapter Twenty Three; Chapter Twenty Four; Chapter Twenty Five; Chapter Twenty Six; Chapter Twenty Seven; Chapter Twenty Eight; Chapter Twenty Nine; Chapter Thirty; Chapter Thirty One; Chapter Thirty Two 
505 8 |a Chapter Thirty ThreeChapter Thirty Four; Chapter Thirty Five; Chapter Thirty Six; Chapter Thirty Seven; Chapter Thirty Eight; Chapter Thirty Nine; Chapter Fourty; Chapter Fourty One; Chapter Fourty Two; Chapter Fourty Three; Chapter Fourty Four; Chapter Fourty Five; Chapter Fourty Six; Chapter Fourty Seven; Chapter Fourty Eight; Chapter Fourty Nine; Back Cover 
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