Focus on Nigeria
Subtitle: literature and culture
By: edited by Gordon Collier
Series: Matatu -- no. 40; Matatu -- no. 40.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9789042035720
Subjects: Social conditions; Nigerian literature; History and criticism; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Literature.; title: Parody of the Shakespearean fool: tradition in an African society  -- Durotoye A. Adeleke; title: "Breaking the head of the masquerade": Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh's "Out of the masks" and theatre of exclusion  -- Nick Mdika Tembo; title: Aesthetic metamorphosis: oral rhetoric in the poetry of Tanure Ojaide  -- Ogaga Okuyade; title: The quest for diplomatic leadership in the poetry of Tanure Ojaide  -- Kola Eke; title: Earth in the balance: the commodification of the environment in The Eye of the Earth and Delta Blues & Home Songs  -- Uzoechi Nwagbara; title: Motherhood and sundry preoccupations in Hope Eghagha's Mama dances into the night and other poems  -- Sunny Awhefeada /; title: Assessing the dilemma of a nation at the crossroads: protest as landscape in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savanna  -- Niyi Akingbe; title: Autobiographical memory, identity re/construction, and stylistic creativity in Tayo Olafioye's Grandma's Sun  -- Adeyemi Adegoju --  Ayi Kwei Armah's professional correspondence: unveiling the ordeals of a gifted African writer / -- Ode S. Ogede; title: War and absurdity: viewing the manifestations of trauma in Uwem Akpan's "Luxurious hearses"  -- H. Oby Okolocha; title: Ethnic conflict and the politics of greed: rethinking Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun  -- Nick Mdike Tembo; title: Situational variables in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People  -- Faith O. Ibhawaegbele and J.N. Edokpayi; title: Interview with Jumoke Verissimo  -- Nereus Yerima Tadi.; title: Creative writing.; title: Two thieves  -- Benjamin Panulo; title: Three poems -- H. Oby Okolocha.; title: Society and cultural expression.; title: The changing status of historical sites in Ilé-Ifẹ̀: implications for the contemporary study of Yorùbá history and culture  -- Abimbola O. Adesoji; title: Magic, witchcraft, and sorcery in warfare: the experience of the Etsakọ of Nigeria  -- Anthony Afe, Asekhauno and Valentine Ananafe Inagbor; title: Islam and culture: two epistemic catalysts for moral dilemmas in the African democratic experiment  -- Anthony Afe, Asekhaunio and Matthew A. Izibili; title: Dialectics of African feminism: a study of the Awonmili women's group in Awka (the land of blacksmiths)  -- Clifford Nwanna; title: 'Acquisitive culture' and its impact on Nigeria's socio-economic development  -- Adebisi Ademakinwa; title: The decline of the Nigerian educational system: its impact on the younger generation  -- Tomi Adeaga; title: Grapho-syntactic analysis of selected political speeches of some Nigerian heads of state  -- Moses Omoniyi Ayeomoni; title: The structure of Yorùbá local drug advertising  -- Moji A. Olateju; title: Tokens of metaphoric expressions in Yorùbá anthroponyms  -- Joshua Abiodun Ogunwale; title: Public spectating and political undertones in Durbar: the emirate court art of northern Nigeria  -- Mohammed Inuwa Umar-Buratai; title: Exploiting resources of Yorùbá drum poetry for contemporary global relevance  -- Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa; title: Singing and suffering in Africa: a study of selected relevant texts of Nigerian gospel music  -- Femi Adedeji; title: The indigenization of military music in Nigeria: issues and perspectives  -- Michael Olútáyọ̀ Ọlátúnjí; title: Modern trends in the Islamized music of the traditional Yorùbá: concept, origin, and development  -- Michael Olútáyọ̀ Ọlátúnjí; title: Reels of conflicting paradigms: the black filmmaker and Africa's transitional dilemmas -- Lifongo Vetinde.