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The author makes a case for what he calls a political pact between traditional oral artists and modern African writers in the new global Africa.
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Abiola Irele, African Imagination (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001) p. 9.
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Kwesi Yankah, “The Making and Breaking of Kwame Nkrumah: The Role of Oral; Poetry” in African Literature in its Social and Political Dimensions, Ed. Eileen Julien, Midred Mortimer, and Curtis Schade (Washington, DC.: Three Continents Press, 1986) pp. 15–22.
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Kofi Anyidoho, “Mythmaker and mythbreaker: the oral poet as earwitness” in African Literature in its Social and Political Dimensions, Ed. Eileen Julien, Midred Mortimer, and Curtis Schade (Washington, DC.: Three Continents Press, 1986) pp. 5–14.
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Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman (London: Longman, 1971).
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CNN.Com News “New Generation of Nigerian novelists emerges.” Posted: 9.28 am EDT, October 25, 2006.
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A Hausa oral poet from Yauri, Kebbi State of Nigeria, whom I have known as a young person, and whom I personally met during my post-primary education during the Nigerian Third Republic.
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Na’Allah, AR. (2018). A Pact Between the Writer and the Oral Performer. In: Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75079-8_4
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