Orality, Literacy, Modernity and Modern African Poetry
This paper attempts to locate and situate how Modem African Poetry turned the corner from a beginning encapsulated in poetic lines which are influenced and modeled after Western style and poets, to embracing forms of African oral traditions. The game changer for modern African poetry is p'Bite...
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Department of General Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti
2013-05-01
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This paper attempts to locate and situate how Modem African Poetry turned the corner from a beginning encapsulated in poetic lines which are influenced and modeled after Western style and poets, to embracing forms of African oral traditions. The game changer for modern African poetry is p'Bitek's Song of Lawino which privileges his people's oral tradition forms as manifested in songs, proverbs and oral poetry oyer conventional western poetic forms. Osundare's Villages Voicesequally concretises the achievement of the modern African poet in using the hands of literacy to drag orality to the podium of modern poetic manifestations, The efforts of p'Bitek and Osundare are singled out for praise for their abilities to locate the critical interface between orality and literacy in a better understanding of the consequence of the fatal collision between African oral tradition and ",'estern education which births modern African poetry.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4bbbde5a46f541a08fe5b66df298a5a92025-08-20T02:13:16ZengDepartment of General Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado-EkitiABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO3043-44752013-05-011110.53982/agidigbo.2013.0101.05-jOrality, Literacy, Modernity and Modern African PoetryOlumide Olugbemi-Gabriel0Department of Languages and Literary Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti This paper attempts to locate and situate how Modem African Poetry turned the corner from a beginning encapsulated in poetic lines which are influenced and modeled after Western style and poets, to embracing forms of African oral traditions. The game changer for modern African poetry is p'Bitek's Song of Lawino which privileges his people's oral tradition forms as manifested in songs, proverbs and oral poetry oyer conventional western poetic forms. Osundare's Villages Voicesequally concretises the achievement of the modern African poet in using the hands of literacy to drag orality to the podium of modern poetic manifestations, The efforts of p'Bitek and Osundare are singled out for praise for their abilities to locate the critical interface between orality and literacy in a better understanding of the consequence of the fatal collision between African oral tradition and ",'estern education which births modern African poetry. https://journals.abuad.edu.ng/index.php/agidigbo/article/view/546African PoetryOral TraditionsProverbsPoetic Forms |
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| title_short | Orality, Literacy, Modernity and Modern African Poetry |
| title_sort | orality literacy modernity and modern african poetry |
| topic | African Poetry Oral Traditions Proverbs Poetic Forms |
| url | https://journals.abuad.edu.ng/index.php/agidigbo/article/view/546 |
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