This is an excellent expose of the incipient influence of the poetry of Umar Abubakar Sidi anthology: The poet of dust. It is …
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Abstract This essay explores the renaissance of Sufi poetry in the contemporary Nigerian literary landscape occasioned by Umar Abubakar Sidi’s The Poet of …
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Critical Essay
Gender politics and the Myth of the Jealous Sea-King in Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine | Clara Ijeoma Osuji
Commonly, there is a fatalistic edge to artistic portrayals of women that can easily be associated with gender politics. In The Concubine, Elechi …
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Critical EssayPoetry
Place Poetry: a Comparative Analysis of Isaiah Gbenga’s Osogobo and Marvellous Igwe’s O Cicade | Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo
Right from the emergence of the first generation of written African poetry that saw the publication of confrontational verses that challenged colonialism and …
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Critical Essay
SOCIO-CULTURAL SHOCKS AND DIFFERENTIALS IN HER MAJESTY’S VISIT: PLAY BY ADINOYI OJO ONUKABA | Tunde Olusunle, PhD & Stephen Adewumi, PhD
ABSTRACT This paper explores the concept of socio-cultural shocks and differentials by utilizing a play text as a case study. The chosen play …
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Postmodern-Secular City-Life Sexual Relations in Contemporary Urban Nigerian Writings | Yinka Adetu
Postmodernism in Urban Nigerian Writings In contemporary discussions on Nigerian urban literature, much has been said about how postmodern city life has been …
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Born on 9 March 1968 in Katsina State, Yusuf Adamu hails from Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. He graduated from Giginyu …
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Critical Essay
Worlds Without Border: Discourse On The Interface Between The Physical And The Metaphysical Realms In African Literary Arts
Abstract Literary artists draw inspiration from their immediate environment. The environment supplies the artistic raw material ranging from the language of literary composition, …
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Critical Essay
Reappraising the Aesthetics of Metaphor and Imagery in Sophia Obi-Akpoko’s Tears in a Basket and Floating Snag
Abstract This essay examines the aesthetics of metaphor and imagery in Sophia Obi- Akpoko’s Tears in a Basket and Floating Snags. In this …
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Ahmed Yerima’s new play Haze questions the meaning of death and man’s existence. An existentialist play, Haze is an incursion into the innermost …
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Critical Essay
Reflecting the Times in Humphrey Dibia’s A Drop of Mercy: A Sociological Review by CHIDIEBERE ENYIA
Humphrey Dibia is a Nigerian writer who x-rays the society he knows very well. The society that is ridden with corruption, bribery, exploitation …
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Abstract This article critically examines how Chinua Achebe, one of the foremost and prolific Nigerian novelist, portrayed his female characters in his novels- …
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