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Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology

By Isidore Okpewho
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The Ozidi Saga is one of Africa's best known prosimetric epics, set in the Delta region of Nigeria. Blood on the Tides examines the epic -- a tale of a warrior and his sorcerer grandmother's revenge upon the assassins who killed her son -- both as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Nigerian Delta and the country as awhole. In addition the book considers various iterations of the saga, including a performance of the…

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