This paper was commissioned by the Program of African Studies (PAS) as a complement to the new edition of Dahomean Narrative that was published by Northwestern University Press as part of the celebration of the PAS’s fiftieth anniversary. The new forward to the volume places Dahomean Narrative within the history of the work of Melville and Frances Herskovits. The Path is Open, by Olabiyi B. Yai, an eminent scholar of African oral literature and especially the oral literature of Bénin, examines Dahomean Narrative as a contribution to the study of African oral arts.

Last modified

• 11/12/2018

Creator

• Olabiyi Babalola Yai

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N25J1Z

Subject

• Afrian Studies

Keyword

• oral narrative
• african
• pas

Date created

• 1999

Related url

•  https://www.africanstudies.northwestern.edu/publications-research/working-papers.html

Resource type

• Research Paper

Rights statement

• In Copyright