The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom by Adebayo Faleti: Translated from the Yoruba by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith
Pamela Olubunmi Smith's The Freedom Fight is an English translation of Adebayo Faleti's Omo Olokun Esin. Though written in 1958 to coincide with Nigerian's Independence (celebrated on October 1st, 1960), Omo Olokun Esin was published in 1970, long after the novel had gained pre-eminence in Yoruba letters. Faleti's imagination was captured by a consuming interest in how people would have liked to have expressed the "self government now or never!" slogan that rent the air in the decade before formal negotiations of independence were begun. Set in 19th century traditional Yorubaland, The Freedom Fight is an historical tale about feudalism and enslavement, freedom and independence. It chronicles the attendant frustrations of advancing any kind of liberation movement in a rule-of-fear, exploitive system, sanctioned by traditional authority...
About the Author:
Adebayo Faleti is a Nigerian poet, actor and a writer.
About the Translator:
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith is Associate Professor of English and Humanities in the Goodrich Scholarship Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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