A mouth sweeter than salt
Subtitle: an African memoir
By: by Toyin Falola.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Falola, Toyin -- Childhood and youth.; Nigerian Americans -- Biography.; College teachers -- Texas -- Austin -- Biography.; Nigeria -- Biography.; Nigeria -- History -- 1960-; Nigeria -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A mouth sweeter than salt gathers the stories and reflections of the early years of Toyin Falola, the grand historian of Africa and one of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria." "Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural developments in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria's independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.