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Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect : Life-stories from Ibibioland, Paperback / softback Book

Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect : Life-stories from Ibibioland Paperback / softback

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Folklore series

Paperback / softback

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This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland.

It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and banishes the myth of primitivity of the African by illustrating the complexity of conversational language of peasants and market women.

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