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colonial nationalism and migration” (247). It is perhaps for this that Brennan sees exile as the antithesis of nationalism (Timo ...

from Exile”. The first painful impression registered on the mind of the exile is nothing but that of an outsider: I stand at the ...

Britain currently has to fight over the unstoppable incursion of American culture and its superimposition on the attitudes of Br ...

radiations which ultimately touch...” (Marianne Hirsch 1998: 419) But beyond this, it is important to remark that the memory emp ...

No sign of our common kin No elder’s blessing to his child The blood erupts in me Our blood And I wonder These men And women Wit ...

however be limned in qualified terms. The fourth and fifth parts dwell on the effects of the repression of “exile’s private pain ...

declaims “A Prodigal sings your pain, mothers” (68), the ambiguity this line bears cannot be denied.^29 The substance of the emp ...

Where is your love Nigeria? (70-71) Subsequent poems in the segment, one way or the other, are replete with the pains of the unr ...

Related to the question of nationalism is commitment. Like nationalism, there is a sense in which the distance that is forged be ...

way, it nevertheless speaks for millions of Nigerian and African migrants who strongly believe in the necessity of return to the ...

implied in the said social imaginary. The alibi for the overthrow of the anti-colonialist Nkrumah was couched in appropriate but ...

sorrow. The only reason for this malady, Anyidoho reflects, is nothing but a derailment from a nation’s cause and course, all be ...

and comments on the total human condition. The disillusionment engendered by the failure of the revolution created an elegy whos ...

evident in the controversial agency of Joseph’s Conrad Heart of Darkness : “The conquest of earth, which mostly means the taking ...

For All of africa’s Children who live die and still live in the diaspora especially for those who still stand so tall among the ...

time past, he denies the constant interaction of the past with the present and the anticipated future. This concentric view of t ...

“Fertility Game”, which opens the first volume of the collection, offers insight into resources of history and memory in address ...

be booby traps. So, usually the pattern is to have, as in “Hero and Thief”, a military hero of “a nervous government/ [that] sit ...

I stretched my mind to clutch at stars of change Here where now silence reigns He was once the jubilee hall of sounds And every ...

I must say I am tired very tired tired of all devotion to death and dying... And I am tired
tired of all these noises of condol ...