Sentence:  If we were content to occupy ourselves with culture in the purely historic-artistic sense, there would be equally viable but inert examples to choose from: from Ola Rotimi to Cheik N'Dao's dramatizations of historic events; the various modern renditions of the Soundiata epic; the poeticization, deification, <WSD>titanization</WSD> of the remarkable Shaka by authors from the novelist Thomas Mofolo to the poet Leopold Senghor; the solemn to irreverent evocators of the past - Chinua Achebe, Mongo Beti, Daniachew Worku, Jomo Kenyatta, Hampate Bà, Camara Laye, etc. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of making or depicting as titanic.