Trinidad Yoruba

Trinidad Yoruba
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9780817355821
ISBN-13 : 0817355820
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Book Synopsis Trinidad Yoruba by : Maureen Warner-Lewis

Download or read book Trinidad Yoruba written by Maureen Warner-Lewis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery. Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study breaks new ground in addressing the experience of Africans in one locale of the Africa Diaspora and examines the nature of their social and linguistic heritage as it was successively retained, modified, and discarded in a European-dominated island community.


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