The use of history as a robust resource material in the African literary creativity is as old as the advent of modern African literature itself. This trend re-affirms the inevitability of the convergence of history and literature. In the symbiotic relationship, history feeds literature with factual events of the past the same way literature brings fullness to bear on such facts. Be this as it may, it is viewed that the use to which history is put by literature has taken diverse shades under different literary phases and/or canons. While we have writers, predominantly within the foremost African literary coterie, whose employment of history revels in the conventional historiography of “render it and leave it at that”, we also have writers (p...
The conversation with sources is at the heart of the historical profession. Men and women of past ti...
In his article Myth and History in the Poetry of Osundare Christopher Anyokwu examines the interre...
African oral literature remains a veritable source of material for African literary drama through va...
The use of history as a robust resource material in the African literary creativity is as old as the...
History has often provided creative writers with source materials. African writers have used histori...
The assumption that history posits itself as a fact, while literature is taken to be an artistic for...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...
Both Armah and Ngugi have grappled with the trajectory of the continent’s history. Whether in their ...
Drawing from the premise that African literature is largely functional, this paper aims at showing i...
The intercourse of history and Drama is an age long phenomenon. On one hand, the evolution and the v...
If a people were to write their own history to be solely accepted as an ideal, it would not be abnor...
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral perf...
Theatre and its appurtenances can project events, problems and issues of society. Its hegemony consi...
Some historians have always erred in ignoring oral history methods, as it is always assumed wrongly ...
African novelists, fully aware that man lives in and is shaped by history as well as of the special ...
The conversation with sources is at the heart of the historical profession. Men and women of past ti...
In his article Myth and History in the Poetry of Osundare Christopher Anyokwu examines the interre...
African oral literature remains a veritable source of material for African literary drama through va...
The use of history as a robust resource material in the African literary creativity is as old as the...
History has often provided creative writers with source materials. African writers have used histori...
The assumption that history posits itself as a fact, while literature is taken to be an artistic for...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...
Both Armah and Ngugi have grappled with the trajectory of the continent’s history. Whether in their ...
Drawing from the premise that African literature is largely functional, this paper aims at showing i...
The intercourse of history and Drama is an age long phenomenon. On one hand, the evolution and the v...
If a people were to write their own history to be solely accepted as an ideal, it would not be abnor...
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral perf...
Theatre and its appurtenances can project events, problems and issues of society. Its hegemony consi...
Some historians have always erred in ignoring oral history methods, as it is always assumed wrongly ...
African novelists, fully aware that man lives in and is shaped by history as well as of the special ...
The conversation with sources is at the heart of the historical profession. Men and women of past ti...
In his article Myth and History in the Poetry of Osundare Christopher Anyokwu examines the interre...
African oral literature remains a veritable source of material for African literary drama through va...