Tanure Ojaide
22 Jan 2017
The historical experience which heralded the birth of modern Nigerian literature was defined by the hostile almost deprecating ambience which colonialism fostered. It was for that reason that the earliest echo of modern Nigerian poetry reverberated in protest. Having experienced the negation of the colonised, the harbinger-poets who were also nationalists championing the cause of…
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