“Amadou Hampate Bas reputation as an advocate of the African - TopicsExpress

“Amadou Hampate Bas reputation as an advocate of the African oral tradition and as historian of the continents precolonial past was well established before the publication of what is now regarded as his master-piece, and indeed, as one of the most significant texts in all of modern African literature: the work translated here under the title The Fortunes of Wangrin.(Introduction by Abiola Irele)” Amadou Hampate Ba “The Fortunes of Wangrin”