Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

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“A frank and passionate celebration and defense of the dignity and desirability of the indigenous in an age of specious globalization. Literate, up-to-date, and wide-ranging, Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature is a welcome intervention by one of the most assiduous workers in the vineyard of African letters.”
-Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor, University of New Orleans, USA

“A thoughtful, lucid, and much needed exploration of the dynamics of African literature in general and Nigerian literature in particular, with special reference to indigeneity and the pressures of globalization! The book is especially significant as coming from the pen of someone who has experienced the impact of various cultures and is himself actively involved in literary production.”
-Eustace Palmer, Professor of English, Georgia College, USA

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Tanure Ojaide is Frank Porter Graham Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, USA.

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Book Title: Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
Book Subtitle: Personally Speaking
Authors: Tanure Ojaide
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137560032
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54220-5Published: 06 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56003-2Published: 07 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 285
Topics: African Literature, African Languages, African History, Modern History, Poetry and Poetics, Social History

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Section I

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The Perils of a Culture-less African Literature in the Age of Globalization

Contemporary Africa and the Politics in Literature

Homecoming: African Literature and Human Development

Defining Niger Delta Literature: Preliminary Perspective on an Emerging Literature

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in World Literature

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After the Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka’s Poetic Output

An Unusual Growth: The Development of Tijan M. Sallah’s Poetry

An Insider Testimony: Odia Ofeimun and His Generation of Nigerian Poets

Traditional Izon Court and Modern Poetry: Christian Otobotekere’s Contribution

Reviving Modern African Poetry: An Argument

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The Imperative of Experience in Poetry: An African Perspective

Indigenous Knowledge and Its Expression in the Folklore of Africa

Policy Studies, Activist Literature, and Pitching for the Masses in Nigeria

The Politics of African Literature: Production, Publishing, and Reception

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Inviting the World into the House of Words: The Writer, His Place, People, and Audience

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