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INTRODUCTION: AFRICAN POETRY AND THE POLITICS OF EXILE: A CRITICAL SURVEY Even at the most propitious of times, when a convergen ...

to refute in a postcolonial fashion all forms of colonial insinuations which had hitherto placed Africa in poor relation to the ...

negritude poetry, Neto’s poetry, among others, are works of this generation projected in this direction. Perhaps one other tende ...

poets
whether Dennis Brutus in South Africa, or Christopher Okigbo in Nigeria, Kofi Awoonor in Ghana and others in their categ ...

What is more, by attempting a categorization of African poets into generations, there is a simultaneous acknowledgement of disti ...

the evolution of these poets. If anti-colonial, nationalist zest and passion could be attributed for the making of the first gen ...

yet they often ended up “in economic crisis, political repression or social failure” (John Foran 2005:1). Whether as a coinciden ...

Eye of the Earth (1986), and Village Voices (1984) especially, are significant in this direction. He, like others in this genera ...

The Malawian production of this generation is unique in the sense that those who populate its space also double as members of he ...

of his bitter experience in prison during the rulership of Banda, one finds the same spirit of “combativeness.” Concerning South ...

messages” (ibid.: 12). This development was again unique in the sense that the re- emergence of poetry was almost to the exclusi ...

years. More specifically, however, the undertaking of the study is informed by a further need to explore the various factors tha ...

less articulate in engaging with the question of exile. As a global phenomenon, the critical neglect to which poetry is subjecte ...

Specifically, my analysis of these texts will focus on the construction and location of home; the mode of apprehension and the a ...

Tanure Ojaide is most acclaimed for his award-winning The Fate of Vultures (1990). This Nigerian professor of Humanities is cred ...

the country, Kamuzu Banda. Other collections of his are The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison (1993), Skipping without Ropes ...

must be viewed as a human condition which is defined by dispersal or drift usually against the wish of an individual or communit ...

Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin 1995: 332). Nevertheless, the all-embracing, spiritualizing liberalism of this philosophy is thorou ...

African continent. This is essentially because of the tribulations that have dogged the lives of the African diaspora in the Wes ...

followed on the continent, especially as colonialism was a follow-up to the antecedent of the trade. Once this historical libert ...