nineteenth century african literature

Ajayi Crowther Collected Yoruba Proverbs About Politeness And Piers Morgan Would Fail Every One

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Ajayi Crowther Collected Yoruba Proverbs About Politeness And Piers Morgan Would Fail Every One – A Lagos-born poet reads about Piers Morgan’s war on a courteous chatbot and turns to the first African bishop, whose Yoruba grammar of 1843 is full of lessons in manners

Crowther Took An English Clergyman’s Name, And The Sky Did Not Fall On Birmingham

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Crowther Took An English Clergyman’s Name, And The Sky Did Not Fall On Birmingham – A Lagos-born poet reads about a father outraged that his son will take his bride’s surname and considers how names travel in Yoruba tradition and nineteenth-century African lives