Olode the hunter, and other tales from Nigeria, by Harold Courlander with Ezekiel A. Eshugbayi. Illustrated by Enrico Arno.
Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996 comp.; Eshugbayi, Ezekiel A., joint comp.
1968
PZ8.1.C8 Ol (Mapit)
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Title Olode the hunter, and other tales from Nigeria, by Harold Courlander with Ezekiel A. Eshugbayi. Illustrated by Enrico Arno.
Author Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996 comp.
Edition [1st ed.]
Publication Details New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1968]
Language English
Description 153 p. illus. 20 cm.
Call Number PZ8.1.C8 Ol
Summary Twenty-nine stories from the people of Nigeria that tell, among other things, why the lizard sometimes lives in a house and about the man who found death in happiness.
Added Author Eshugbayi, Ezekiel A., joint comp.
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Olomu's bush rat
Man who looked for death
Ekun and Opolo go looking for wives
Lizard's lost meat
Antelope skin
Olode the hunter becomes an Oba
How Ijapa, who was short, became long
Ijapa cries for his horse
Kigbo and the bush spirits
Chief's knife
Why the lion, the vulture, and the hyena do not live together
Ijapa and the Oba repair a roof
Sofo's escape from the leopard
How Ologbon-Ori sought wisdom
Ijapa and Yanrinbo swear an oath
Antelope's mother: the woman in the moon
Oba asks for a mountain
Journey to Lagos
Ijapa goes to the Osanyin shrine
Ijapa and the hot-water test
Ogungbemi and the battle in the bush
Quarrel between Ile and Orun
Ijapa demands corn Fuju
Wrestlers
How the people of Ife became scattered
How Moremi saved the town of Ife
Staff of Oranmiyan
First woman to say "dim"
Why no one lends his beauty.

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