Oral Tradition Volume 21, Number 2October 2006
About the Authors
Helen Yitah
Helen Yitah is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. Her research interests include gender, oral traditions, and postcolonial literature. Her most recent articles have appeared in The Bilingual Review and The African Studies Research Review. She is working on a book on gender and proverb performance in Ghana.
Françoise Ugochukwu
Françoise Ugochukwu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Open University. Her research interests include African literatures, ethnolinguistics, and oral traditions. She has lectured in universities in Nigeria, France, and the UK for more than thirty years. Her most recent publication is the Igbo-French Dictionary (Karthala 2004).
Michael D. C. Drout
Michael D. C. Drout is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He is the author of Tradition and Influence (forthcoming) and How Tradition Works: A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century (2006), and has edited J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beowulf and the Critics (2003, rev ed. 2011), the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2006), and the journal Tolkien Studies (2003-present).
Anthony K. Webster
Anthony K. Webster is Assistant Professor in Linguistic Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research interests include the emergence of Navajo poetry, issues in translation, the role of orality and literacy in performance, Navajo and Apachean ethnopoetics, and the place of the individual in the creative use of language. Previous research has been published in American Indian Culture and Research, American Indian Quarterly, and Studies in American Indian Literature.
Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva
Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva is Professor of English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he teaches drama, poetry, African Literatures, and Oral Literature/Folklore Studies. His primary research interests center around the development of a poetics for indigenous and modern African literature. His most recent publications include Forms and Functions of English and Indigenous Languages in Nigeria (2004) and Songs of Odamolugbe (2006).
