Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives

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  • Emmanuel Yewah Department of Foreign Languages Albion College Albion Michigan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21825/af.v10i3-4.5606

Abstract

Tliis article attempts to cross-examine African Literature and African costumary, Islamic and inherited colonial laws. It opens a new topic in the study of African literature by showing how legal discourses are inscribed in certain African narratives and how these discourses link the narratives to the overall context of their production. KEY WORDS : African law, literature, traditional courts. 

Author Biography

Emmanuel Yewah, Department of Foreign Languages Albion College Albion Michigan

Department of Foreign Languages

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Published

1994-09-01

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Yewah, E. (1994). Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives. frika ocus, 10(3-4). https://doi.org/10.21825/af.v10i3-4.5606

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Vol. 10 No. 3-4 (1994)

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