Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel

First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "e;The Life Story of Me, Segilola"e; caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risque escapades, pious moralising and vivid evocations of urban popular culture. The narrative and the commentary that sprang up around it in the Yoruba press offer a unique ...