Obaze, Oseloka, 297

Ofeimun, Odia, 4, 243–244

Ogunlesi, Tolu, 247–248

oil, 147–151, 159, 169–174

Ojaide, Tanure, 242–243, 246–247

Okesipe, Kunle, 8, 221, 233–238

Okigbo, Christopher, 89, 252, 255, 260

Okpewho, Isidore, 249, 252, 256

Okri, Ben, 17, 80, 83, 149–150, 157, 163–165, 168

Olaniyan, Tejumola, 1

Oloka-Onyango, J., 125–126

Omoyele, Sowore, 288–289

Ondaatje, Michael, 270, 278–279, 282, 284

One is Enough, 67

Onibonoje, Biodun, 231

Onwordi, Toni Can, 248, 257

Opposite House, 8, 271, 288, 297–308

oral tradition, 166–167, 246–251, 263

orature. See oral tradition

Orisha, 288–290, 298–307

“the other,”, 8, 16, 199–200, 221, 223–224, 226–238, 297

otherness, 3, 142, 208, 224, 228, 237

otherworld, 274, 289, 292–293, 302

Ouologuem, Yambo, 109

Oyeyemi, Helen, 8, 269–275, 288–309

Oyono, Ferdinand, 5, 86

palm wine, 87, 96, 160–162, 230, 234–236, 303

Palm-Wine Drunkard, 157–160

Parisianism, 110–112, 124, 137

Parnell, Susan, 191

Paton, Alan, 6, 186–187, 189, 205

patriarchy, 56, 61–62, 69, 161, 209

Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 55

postcolonial universalism, 110–112, 137

postcolonialism, 5–6, 15, 18–19, 35, 54–71, 85, 111, 151, 220–228, 277, 308

postcoloniality, 15

Power and the Praise Poem, 250

Pratt, Mary Louise, 6

La préférence nationale, 6, 115–122

Professor's Last Death, 8, 233–238

Pupavac, Vanessa, 26

Purple Hibiscus, 6, 8, 53–71, 270, 275–287

Quayson, Ato, 1

racism, 106, 120–121, 126, 140

Rao, Nagesh, 70, 78

Rattling of Sagoe's Drink Lobes, 233

Relation, 103, 112–117, 124–125, 137, 140–141

Return to Laughter, 272–274, 284, 296

Ride on the Whirlwind, 198

Riesman, David, 273

Road, 234–237

Rooney, Carolyn, 62

Rosaldo, Michelle, 281–282

Rosen, David M., 18–20, 27

Santería, 288, 298–306

Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 17, 25, 32–36, 42, 245, 258

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 110

Sautman, Francesca Canadé, 6, 104, 111–112