USA Africa Dialogue Series - YORÙBÁ STUDIES REVIEW VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2, SPRING 2019 : SPECIAL EDITION ON ADÉBÁYỌ̀ FÁLÉTÍ

review   This edition, edited by Professor Pamela Smith, is now in print

 

 

YORÙBÁ STUDIES REVIEW

 

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2, SPRING 2019

 

SPECIAL EDITION

THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ADÉBÁYỌ̀ FÁLÉTÍ

(1921-2017)

 

 

Contents

Introduction: Requiem – Alàgbà, Dr., Prince, Mosọbalájé Ajíbádé Àkàndé Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, OON, DLitt., FNAL, JP, a.k.a 'Pa Fálétí' to Some; 'Bàbá Fálétí' to all and Sundry.

Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

 

Tributes

 

Pa Fálétí, Another Icon Departs

Fẹmi Ọsọfisan

 

Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí: The Portrait of a Cultural Connoisseur

Tunji Ọlaọpa

 

Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí: The Passing of a Cultural Icon

By Akin Adeṣọkan

 

Ọ̀rọ̀ Lẹyẹ ń Gbọ́! A Deserving Tribute to Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Mosọbalájé Ajíbádé Àkàndé Fálétí (Ọdẹ Àdàbà)

Félix Ayoh'Omidire

 

Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí

Moses Mabayọjẹ

 

Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí Dará Ilẹ̀

Adedọtun Ogundeji

 

Pagidarì, Adébáyọ̀ Fálétì Re'lé Poo!

Bayọ Ọmọlọla

 

Ó di Gbéré, ó di Kése, Adébayọ̀ Fálétí

Lere Adeyẹmi

 

Ìrántí Alàgbà Fálétí

Ọlayinka Agbetuyi

 

Essays

 

Fálétí's Philosophical Sensibility

Adeshina Afọlayan

 

Iconic Celebration of Charms and Friendship in Poetry: Fálétí's "Adébímpé, Ọ̀jẹ́dòkun"

Michael Ọladẹjọ Afọláyan

 

The Exordium of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí's Poetry

Adedọtun Ogundeji

 

Intertextuality in Selected Narrative Poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí

Arinpe Adejumọ and Adefẹmi Akinṣeloyin

 

Women in Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí's Poetry

Abidemi Bọlarinwa

 

Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist

Lere Adeyẹmi

 

The Dialectics of Political Ideology and Power Relations in African Literature: A Reading of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí's Baṣọ̀run Gáà

Ṣọla Owonibi

 

Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis

Ọlayinka Agbetuyi

 

Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen

Toluwanimi Ibikunle

 

Reviews

 

The Art and life of Alàgbà Fálétí – A Pictorial, Art and Artifacts Exhibition in Honor of Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí (1927-2017) curated by Akinsola Adejuwon and Seyi Ogunjobi

Akinṣọla Adejuwọn

 

The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. A Translation by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí's Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin

Michael Ọladẹjọ Afọlayan

 

From the Archives

 

Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. A Translation by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí's Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin

 

 

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Toyin Falọla

 

Pius Adesanmi

Toyin Falọla

 

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Toyin Falọla

 

 

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