Africa: Lanrewaju Adepoju And The Making Of Modern Yoruba Poetry

Africa: Lanrewaju Adepoju And The Making Of Modern Yoruba Poetry Oyeniyi Okunoye, 2011   This essay presents Lanrewaju Adepoju, whose work and ideas have been very influential on contemporary Yoruba poetry, as a local intellectual. In estimating his contribution to modernising ewì, an open poetic form that inhabits the interface between the oral and the written, the essay draws on biographical information, an extensive personal interview and relevant textual illustration. It correlates...

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