Nigeria: Language of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A Critical Examination

14 November 2004
opinion

This is the third part of this essay. The second instalment was published last week.

AGAIN, I have strayed into making critical comments about the masters, but as I have said before they are not the subject of this essay, but the poets of the present generation. I expect our contemporary poets to be the least conscious in their use of the oral traditions in their poetry.

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