Talk:The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Drinker or Drunkard?
Why was the main character described here as a "drunk" when the title emphasizes him as a "drinkard?" Everyone who drinks palm wine does not get drunk.

Da Stressor

Has been fixed Centrepull (talk) 22:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Language
I am no expert on Nigerian dialects, jargons etc. but this book ist definitely not written in Pidgin English. The language is definitely English, although not the Qeen's English. There are no Yoruba or Igbo words except such that have become part of the English language, like juju.

Martinvie (talk) 23:21, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree. it is not any known pidgin. I've changed it to 'non-standard English'. Centrepull (talk) 22:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

First African Work of Literature? Please o!
It was the first work of print literature about Africa by a black African...

Academic citation notwithstanding, this is nonsense, and would have been spotted for nonsense long ago if it were written about a different region. A 1952 novel the first work of print literature about Africa by a black African? Lauren Gantz of | University of Texas, and for that matter Oyekan Owomoyela should know better.

Try the first edition of Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation for a start. Political novel, published 1911. Then go on to argue about whether the large stock of literature produced in Timbuktu and other Sahel areas of West Africa well before colonial times were printed or not. Centrepull (talk) 22:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC)