Griots with Pens in their Hands Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s–1990s
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Abstract
Writers who choose to publish in the European languages are not cut of from their oral and vernacular literary heritage simply by their choice of linguistic medium. Focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, this chapter will discuss the ways in which, rather than existing in oppositional relationships, oral, vernacular, and Europhone literatures often interact with and inspire one another in West Africa. This is especially the case in the work of ‘second-generation’ English- language writers, including Ghana’s Kofi Anyidoho (1947– ), Kojo Laing (1946– ), and Atukwei Okai (1941– ), and Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare (1946– ) and Ezenwa-Ohaeto (n.dat), all of whom find inspiration in local oral genres.
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