Speaking and Singing: (papers and Poems) |
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... difficult situations by weaving interminable tales to his hypnotized listeners . Our own method of story - telling has served us since the beginning of our race . But so far Nigerian critics have been reluctant to look deeper into our ...
... difficult situations by weaving interminable tales to his hypnotized listeners . Our own method of story - telling has served us since the beginning of our race . But so far Nigerian critics have been reluctant to look deeper into our ...
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... difficult to refrain from saying that just as we are finding it extremely difficult to shake off our colonial mentality , so is the foreigner , and here I mean the white man , and specifically the English - speaking white man , unable ...
... difficult to refrain from saying that just as we are finding it extremely difficult to shake off our colonial mentality , so is the foreigner , and here I mean the white man , and specifically the English - speaking white man , unable ...
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... difficulty is the matter of publication itself . Until very recently most Nigerian novels had to be printed and published ... difficult , and sometimes impossible , for a publisher in one culture to decide just what a reader in another ...
... difficulty is the matter of publication itself . Until very recently most Nigerian novels had to be printed and published ... difficult , and sometimes impossible , for a publisher in one culture to decide just what a reader in another ...
Contents
Background of Nigerian Literature | 2 |
Religion and Culture in African Literature | 13 |
Problems of Commitment in Literature | 22 |
Copyright | |
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