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Orality, Literacy, Modernity and Modern African Poetry
No full textThis paper attempts to locate and situate how Modem African Poetry turned the corner from a beginning encapsulated in poetic lines which are influenced and modeled after Western style and poets, to embracing forms of African oral traditions. The game changer for modern African poetry is p'Bitek's Song of Lawino which privileges his people's oral tradition forms as manifested in songs, proverbs and oral poetry oyer conventional western poetic forms. Osundare's Villages Voicesequally concretises the achievement of the modern African poet in using the hands of literacy to drag orality to the podium of modern poetic manifestations, The efforts of p'Bitek and Osundare are singled out for praise for their abilities to locate the critical interface between orality and literacy in a better understanding of the consequence of the fatal collision between African oral tradition and ",'estern education which births modern African poetry
Political Scepticism: A Panacea for the Nigerian Political Leadership Quagmire
Full text linkThe paper blames the 'Nigerian political misfortune on the ignorance of the masses. It argues that the gullibility of the Nigerian masses has not fared well on the political climate of the country. As a way of taming this political monster, the paper proposes a sceptical attitude among the masses. The proposed political scepticism is differentiated from a wholesome rejection of the possibility of good governance in the Nigerian polity; rather it is an attitude towards the establishment of a critical and rigorous intellectual basis for national political culture. This attitude, the paper maintains, is impossible without the internalization of an appropriate education, a form of education tailored towards the attainment of sustainable development in the political sphere. It is believed that the projected appropriation would help maintain a high standard of political proficiency among members of the political class by pruning the Nigerian politics of incompetent and selfish persons who have grown to an unbearable proportion