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CMTC Poetic Traditions in Manuscript Cultures (16-17.09.2021)

A free online conference hosted by the CMTC and The Queen's College in collaboration with the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Watch Karin Barber's (African Studies, Birmingham: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/pr...) talk at the conference.

"Oral Yoruba genres and homegrown print culture in early colonial Lagos, Nigeria"

Local, artisanal print production in the Yoruba language flourished in early colonial western Nigeria without there having been an extensive preceding manuscript culture. It provided a space in which authors and editors could, for the first time, collect, preserve, and legitimise popular urban oral genres – while also changing them.

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