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Niyi Osundare is a Nigerian poet, dramatist, linguist, and literary critic. Born on 12 March 1947, in Ikere-Ekiti , [ 1 ] Nigeria, his poetry is influenced by the oral poetry of his Yoruba culture, which he hybridizes with other poetic traditions of the world, including African-American, Latin American, Asian, and European.
— (2013) "The Lizard and the Iroko: Reflections on Nigerian Literature 23 and Criticism since the 1960s" in Journal of Nigerian English and Literature (JONEL), Volume 9, January 2013, pp. 42–54. — (2017) "Unity in Diversity in the Household of African Feminism: A Response to Di-Feminism" in Journal of Igbo Studies Association (ISA, USA ...
Nigerian literature may be roughly defined as the literary writing by citizens of the nation of Nigeria for Nigerian readers, addressing Nigerian issues. This encompasses writers in a number of languages, including not only English but Igbo , Urhobo , Yoruba , and in the northern part of the county Hausa and Nupe . [ 1 ]
His poetry, taken together, is an expansion of our new poetry for the straightforward but nonetheless interesting reason that he seems to have found a distinctive way of articulating his personal, if sometimes imagined, history while, at the same time, effusing their universal contexts quite decisively and seamlessly."
Achebe, Nnamdi (2014). "The contexts and functions of Igbo oral poetry". Awka Journal of Linguistics and Languages. 8. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. Amankulor, J. Ndukaku; Okafor, Chinyere G. (1988). "Continuity and Change in Traditional Nigerian Theatre Among the Igbo in the Era of Colonial Politics". Ufahamu. 6 (3). James S. Coleman ...
The cover of the first issue of Poetry magazine, published in 1912. A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters.
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Irele, Abiola, and Simon Gikandi (eds),The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, 2 vols, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Table of contents [2] Shamim, Amna. Gynocentric Contours of the Male Imagination: A Study of the Novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. New Delhi: Idea Publishing, 2017.