Denja Abdullahi

From the Prism of Black Orpheus: Mapping the Growth and Development of Discourse on African Literature

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The Conflict of Cultures in West African Poetry, Ulli Beier’s first essay in the maiden edition of Black Orpheus (September 1957), raises a crucial question that haunted the beginnings of African literature, one that has persisted till date. While the African writer fights against colonial subjectivization, he does so within the ambivalence of using the […]