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Fidelis, A. Nwokwu, O. Bob Prisca, and U. Kwekowe Priscilla. "A reflection on social injustice in victor Igiri's One Nigeria and Ikenna Omeje’s the Shadows of Ethnicism and Tribalism." i-manager’s Journal on English Language Teaching 13, no. 3 (2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.26634/jelt.13.3.19798.

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Social injustice has become one of the social vices that bedevil Nigerian society. The level of social injustice currently prevailing in Nigeria is alarming, and the poor citizens are beginning to feel the impact in the level of discontent among the citizenry, as demonstrated by various uprisings against the state. The poems of Victor Ngiri's “One Nigeria” and Ikenna Omeje's “The Shadows of Ethnicism and Tribalism” are aimed at capturing these scenarios. A thematic analysis technique is employed to explore the central idea of the poems, while a Marxist theoretical framework is employed in the analysis of data. The findings drawn from the study show that modern poets have been able to use the tool of poetry to satirize the evils of social injustice prevalent in Nigerian society. Furthermore, the poets identify ethnicism and tribalism as one of the major causes of social injustice in Nigeria. Consequently, the poets advocate that for African society to be better than what it is, people should emulate the past African heroes, preach the gospel of altruism, and lend peace a voice.
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Akingbe, Niyi. "Speaking denunciation: satire as confrontation language in contemporary Nigerian poetry." Afrika Focus 27, no. 1 (February 25, 2014): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-02701004.

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Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to read. This epochal approach in the crafting of poetry has significantly evoked an inimitable sense of humour which endears these poems to the readers. In this regard, the selected poems in this paper are crowded with anecdotes, the effusive use of humour, suspense and curiosity. The over-arching argument of the paper is that satire is grounded in the poetics of contemporary Nigerian poetry in order to criticize certain aspects of the social ills plaguing Nigerian society. The paper will further examine how satire articulates social issues in the works of contemporary Nigerian poets, including Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Chinweizu, Femi Fatoba, Odia Ofeimun, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Obiora Udechukwu and Ogaga Ifowodo. Viewed in the light of artistic commitment, the paper will demonstrate how satire accentuates the role of these poets as the synthesizers/conduits of social and cultural concerns of Nigerian society for which they claim to speak. As representatively exemplified in the selected poems, the paper will essentially focus on the mediation of satire for the impassioned criticism of social and moral vices, militating against Nigeria’s socio-political development.
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Akpah, Bartholomew Chizoba. "Satire, humour and parody in 21st Century Nigerian women’s poetry." European Journal of Humour Research 6, no. 4 (December 30, 2018): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2018.6.4.akpah.

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21st century Nigerian women poets have continued to utilise the aesthetics of literary devices as linguistic and literary strategies to project feminist privations and values in their creative oeuvres. There has been marginal interest towards 21st century Nigerian women’s poetry and their deployment of artistic devices such as satire, humour and parody. Unequivocally, such linguistic and literary devices in imaginative works are deployed as centripetal force to criticise amidst laughter, the ills of female devaluation in the society. The major thrust of the study, therefore, is to examine how satire, humour and parody are deployed in selected Nigerian women’s poetry to reproach and etch the collective ethos of women’s experience in contemporary Nigerian society. The study utilises qualitative analytical approach in the close reading and textual analysis of the selected texts focusing mainly on the aesthetics of humour, satire and parody in challenging male chauvinism in contemporary Nigerian women’s poetry. Three long poems: “Nuptial Counsel”, “Sadiku’s Song” and “The Sweet, Sweet Mistress’ Tale” by Mabel Evweirhoma and Maria Ajima respectively were purposively selected. The choice of the selected poems hinges on the artistic vigour, especially the evoking of laughter, mockery and condemnation of hegemonic strictures through the use of satire, humour and parody. The paper employs Molara Ogundipe’s Stiwanism, an aspect of Feminist theory in the analysis of the selected poems. The poets have shown the interventions of humour, satire and parody as linguistic devices in condemning and highlighting peculiarities of women peonage in Nigeria.
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Abechi, Agada, Adah, and Ugochukwu Ogechi Iwuji. "The Futility of Waiting: A Receptionist Study of Tanure Ojaide’s “Waiting” and Isidore Diala’s “Waiting”." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 3, no. 01 (February 15, 2024): 404–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i01.047.

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This paper uses the Reader-response theory to investigate the futility of waiting as explored in “Waiting” by the two poets in their The Lure of Ash and The Beauty I Have Seen, respectively. It is a coincidence for two poets to pointedly dwell on the same title and subject matter. Isidore Diala and Tanure Ojaide are both second-generation Nigerian poets who witnessed the beginning of the fall of the Nigerian dream. The methodology used is qualitative as excerpts of the key poems and relevant works are cited and analyzed. The work is essentially literary as relevant aspects of literary criticism are deployed to buttress aspects of the paper. The findings of the study are hinged on the fact that the two poets of Ojaide and Diala coincidentally explore the metaphor of “waiting” in their poems of the same title to denounce the political inequalities in their country. The political class is presented as a set of hegemonists who exploit and subjugate the people. The two poems are revolutionary because of the revelation that waiting is futile, and is of the colour of ash. Indeed, waiting is ash, and ash is waiting, a pun stylistically deployed by Diala in his “Waiting.”
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Anuonye, Chibueze Darlington. "Facebook Writers: The Emergence of a New Generation of Nigerian Poets." Research in African Literatures 54, no. 3 (September 2024): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.00020.

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ABSTRACT: In his 2005 article "The Lightness of Being: Re-figuring Trends in Recent Nigerian Poetry," the literary critic Harry Garuba accounted for the emergence of the first, second, and third generations of Nigerian poets. But recently, there has been an outburst of new Nigerian poets under the age of forty, who are yet to be properly categorized. This article adopts Garuba's "strategic intervention" as a theoretical framework for the classification of these new poets. In presenting its views that these poets have made strategic interventions in Nigerian poetry by establishing social media literature with Facebook as their foremost publishing platform; mainstreaming digital publishing; influencing a new tradition of queer, self-conscious, and subversive poetry; and earning significant literary prizes, this article revises Garuba's classification and expands the canon of Nigerian poetry to inaugurate these Facebook writers and their contemporaries as the fourth generation of Nigerian poets.
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S., Alhassan, A., and Hadiya, A. .U. "Form And Content Of Poetry Of Restive Regions: A Critique Of Select Collection Of Poems From The Boko Haram And Bandits’ Occupied Northern States." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 3, no. 02 (February 15, 2024): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i01.011.

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Modern African poetry is characterized by shifts in both its form and preoccupation. It began with a call for self-governance in an amateurish language. Then came the Soyinkas (the disillusioned poets), whose poems are crafted in a rather difficult style that suggests colonial hang-ups. A major turnaround came in the 1980s when the Osundares’, criticizing the Soyinkas for their untold difficulty, provided a staple, known as the Alter-Native tradition. It seeks to address African conditions using African allusions. They, unlike the largely Greco-Roman, Euro-centric and Biblical form of the Soyinkas, provide an enative alternative. Both Othman and Okpanachi, (then lecturers in the far North-Eastern Nigerian University of Maiduguri) belong to the latter and they write amid the terrific Boko Haram insurgency that threatened to extinct the region. This paper seeks to uncover their style in exposing some of the most horrific acts of both the Boko haram and the herdsmen’s unleashed terror on innocent souls. The paper, harping on the postcolonial discourses of the Palestinian Said, Caribbean Fanon, Indian Bhabha, and Nigerian Chinweizu, looks at the factors and motives behind the assailants’ missions as presented in the collections. It shows how they reveal the misgivings of the current African democracy as embedded in evil acts. These Poets seem to unravel the brazen incompetency of the modern African democratic governments, citing Nigeria as an example. The paper also offers a critique of some other collections of poems from northern Nigerian authors. From 1999 to the mid-2000, the region was ravaged by Boko Haram mayhem. And by 2015 to date, it has been faced with a series of terror activities that range from banditry, and cattle rustling to kidnapping. The region is absolved in fear of terror everywhere. Thus the paper also attempts to critique some of the accounts contained in the poems.
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Abubakar Adamu Masama, Abdulwahid Sabi'u Auwal, Abubakar Adamu Masama, Abdulwahid Sabi'u Auwal. "Samples of the phenomenon of innovation in Nigerian Arabic political poetry: صور من ظواهر التجديد في معاني الشعر السياسي العربي في نيجيريا." مجلة العلوم الإنسانية و الإجتماعية 5, no. 15 (December 27, 2021): 103–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.26389/ajsrp.b150721.

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Nigerian political poetry is currently witnessing a remarkable renewal. Indeed, The political situation in Nigeria has produced brilliant poets who have taken political poetry as one of their most important weapons for them to defend their political and tribal views, this type of poetry has acquired different innovation, this research represents a study of the phenomenon of renewal in Nigerian Arabic poetry, this research comes from the point of view of the researchers' observation that this innovative phenomenon of Nigerian political poetry still lacks what it deserves to be studied. The most important findings of this research are: the current political conditions in Nigeria have imposed a significant renewal in Nigerian political poetry, hence the need for further research in the field.
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Diala, Isidore. "Bayonets and the carnage of tongues: The contemporary Nigerian poet speaking truth to power." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 116–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989415575800.

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The paradigmatic antagonistic relationship between the Nigerian poet and the despot in his guise as a military ruler has often been examined in terms of a hegemonic contestation of power between unequal rivals. The military state’s typical response to the poet’s “truth” with the display of excessive might, often involving the emblematic battering of the poet’s tongue by the imposition of silence even in its eternal form of death, entrenches the notion of a powerful antagonist pitted against a weak opponent who nonetheless incarnates the spirit of the masses. A close reading of anti-military Nigerian poetry, however, underscores that the situation was replete with paradoxes: the inability of power to ignore apparent powerlessness; the ultimate triumph of powerlessness over power; and the fascinating replication in the counter-discourse of the (discursive) strategies of the dominant hegemony it battles against. This study highlights these trends in contemporary Nigerian poetry inspired by military despotism by paying particular attention to the work of the “third generation” of Nigerian poets.
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Ojarikre, Anthony. "A Systemic Functional Analysis of the Nominal Group in Selected Eco-Critical Poems of Ebi Yeibo and G’ebinyo Ogbowei." NIU Journal of Humanities 8, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 69–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.58709/niujhu.v8i3.1695.

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This paper examines the Nominal Group in the ecopoetry of Ebi Yeibo and G’ebinyo Ogbowei. Both poets are of the Niger Delta literary tradition of protest literature. This literature is a reaction to the brazen exploitation of petroleum resources in the Niger Delta without compensation and environmental impact assessment by the Nigerian government and the international oil companies. Three representative poems are selected from different collections of the two poets. They are analysed using Systemic Functional Grammar as theoretical framework. The systemic functional analysis of the Nominal Group brings out the eco-critical features of the poems. An analysis of the MHQ structures throws up the vexed issue of environmental injustice and brings to the fore the struggle of the Niger Delta people for resource control. Keywords: Niger Delta, Hydrocarbon, Environmental Injustice, Resource Control, Ecocriticism
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HUSSAINI ADDAU MAGAJI and NAFIUABDULLAHI. "SATIRE IN THE POETRY OF MUSA I. OKPANACHI AND JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER." Ahyu: A Journal of Language and Literature 1, no. 3 (May 2, 2020): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v1i3.13.

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This paper addresses the use of satire as a tool in contemporary Nigerian Poetry as depicted in some selected poems of Musa I. Okpanachi and Joseph C.P Christopher. Poets adopt the use of satire as their style to improve the society by criticizing and ridiculing anyone engaged in vices which are often detrimental to a majority of the less privileged. Poets depict the vices in their societies in a satiric style that scorn and cast aspersion on the follies of their leaders, the people and the societal structure as a whole. They also address the imbalance in the society and the adverse effects of such on the Nigerian society. Moreover, the study focuses on how satire as atool for reparation can serveas a basis or an attempt for civil change. The research brings out the significant achievement of the two poets in using satire. Okpanachi uses juvenilia satire which is said to be more confrontational in his poetry in an attempt to expose the evil happening in the society to his readers. Christopher on the other hand is less confrontational. He uses menippean satire which creates awareness to his readers. The sociological approach has been adopted for the purpose of this research.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nigerian Poets"

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Nwanosike, F. "Evaluation of Nigerian ports post-concession performance." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2014. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/24469/.

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Concession has been acknowledged as a valuable tool for port authorities to retain control of ports and shape the supply side of the terminal market, in the absence of full privatisation. This study empirically examines the influence of transfer of port operational services from the public to the private sector, through concession contracts on operational performance in the context of the Nigerian port industry. It extends the work of Liu (1995) and others on the comparative performance of public and private ports in the UK and other countries, by extending the study to the Nigerian ports concessions. The Nigerian port reform was borne out of the belief that the transfer of port operations from the public to the private sector will improve the efficiency of the ports, by instigating competition among the various terminal operators. The Nigerian port concession involved the delineation of six Nigerian ports into 25 terminals and awarded to terminal operators. The objectives of the study include, among others; the benchmarking of pre- and post-concession efficiency, to determine sources of efficiency change and to determine factors responsible for the improvement of Nigerian port performance. A positivist approach is adopted, using quantitative data that involves outputs and inputs related to the port‘s production function. Theoretical underpinnings of privatisation and performance, as well as empirical evidence from countries, were presented and discussed. The variables of the research were analysed using non-parametric DEA and the Malmquist Productivity Index to determine the efficiency and the sources of productivity change respectively. This study introduced a novel idea, by adopting a concentration index in measuring the level of competitiveness of ports. The conceptualised theoretical model of operational performance was solved using a two-stage multivariate regression, to determine the factors responsible for the improvement of the Nigerian ports‘ efficiency. The results of the analysis suggested that the productive performance of the ports under consideration improved after the transfer of terminal operations to the private sector, though not in all the ports. Indicating that the wholesale concession of the ports is not the best after all, some ports would have been better left under public ownership. The driver of the improved efficiency after concession, is scale efficiency (increased throughput levels), rather than technical efficiency. Therefore, the post-concession Nigerian ports performance is influenced by the scale of production and change of ownership. The delineation of the ports into terminals has not ushered in the expected competition among and within the ports.
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Falowo, Isaac Oladipo. "The development of the Nigerian ports 1970 - 1982." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316385.

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Books on the topic "Nigerian Poets"

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Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Ngozi. Minstrels never die: Selected writings of Ezenwa-Ohaeto, vol. 1. Awka, Nigeria: Scoa Heritage, 2011.

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Tunde, Oladunjoye, ed. Activist poets: Anthology from Nigeria's prodemocracy campaigners. Ikeja, Lagos: Center for Media Education and Networking, 2002.

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1932-1967, Okigbo Christopher, Oguejiofor Patrick Tagbo, and Uduma Kalu, eds. Crossroads: An anthology of poems in honour of Christopher Okigbo (1933-67) on the 40th anniversary of his death and on his 75th birthday anniversary. Lagos: Apex Books, 2008.

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1935-2001, Wonodi Okogbule, and Okoro Dike, eds. Songs for Wonodi: An anthology of poems in memory of Okogbule Wonodi (1935-2001). Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2007.

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Ebika, Anthony Isaac, ed. Rural rhythms: Poems. Ibanan, [Nigeria]: Ebiks Theatre Studio in collaboration with Creative Books, 2007.

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Udeozo, Obu. Electronic eagles: [selected poems]. Jos, Nigeria: Fab Educational Books, 2013.

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Nwakanma, Obi. Christopher Okigbo, 1930-67: Thirsting for sunlight. Woodbridge, Suffolk [England]: James Currey, 2009.

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Ebika, Anthony Isaac, ed. Rural rhythms: Poems. Ibanan, [Nigeria]: Ebiks Theatre Studio in collaboration with Creative Books, 2007.

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Anthony, Isaac Ebika. Rural rhythms: Poems. Ibanan, [Nigeria]: Ebiks Theatre Studio in collaboration with Creative Books, 2007.

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Sylvester, Mnguember Vicky, writer of foreword, ed. On his turf: Collected interviews on arts, literary and cultural administration (2009-2015). Lagos, Nigeria: Something for Everybody Ventures (SFEV), 2015.

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Ojaide, Tanure. "An Insider Testimony: Odia Ofeimun and His Generation of Nigerian Poets." In Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature, 119–31. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137560032_8.

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Oji, Okechukwu George, and Chukwuma Agu. "How Competitive and Efficient are Nigerian Ports?" In Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria, 275–99. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230583191_13.

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Iwoketok, Uwemedimo Enobong. "Anaang Poets & Universal Themes." In Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages, 507–18. M and J Grand Orbit Communications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r1h7.43.

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Endong, Floribert Patrick C. "A Latter-Day Sodom and Babylon." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 1–28. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9312-6.ch001.

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This chapter examines the manner in which Nigerian bloggers and web journalists interpreted, framed and represented Obama's gay rights diplomacy in Nigeria. The chapter specifically explores the extent to which these web journalists' interpretations of the American pro-gay movement generated new religion-inspired representations of the U.S. government and Americans on the social networks. The study is based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of over 162 online articles generated by Nigerian citizen journalists in reaction to Obama's gay rights advocacy in Nigeria and Africa. It answers the following research questions: how did Nigerian web/citizen journalists frame Obama's pro-gay move? What was their tone? How did they represent America and its people in their articles or posts? And how did religion and culture influence the latter's representations of America and Americans?
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Endong, Floribert Patrick C. "A Latter-Day Sodom and Babylon." In Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+ Community, 549–69. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3674-5.ch030.

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This chapter examines the manner in which Nigerian bloggers and web journalists interpreted, framed and represented Obama's gay rights diplomacy in Nigeria. The chapter specifically explores the extent to which these web journalists' interpretations of the American pro-gay movement generated new religion-inspired representations of the U.S. government and Americans on the social networks. The study is based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of over 162 online articles generated by Nigerian citizen journalists in reaction to Obama's gay rights advocacy in Nigeria and Africa. It answers the following research questions: how did Nigerian web/citizen journalists frame Obama's pro-gay move? What was their tone? How did they represent America and its people in their articles or posts? And how did religion and culture influence the latter's representations of America and Americans?
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Endong, Floribert Patrick C. "Using Social Media to Advocate LGBT Rights in Black Africa." In Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities, 203–27. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2854-8.ch010.

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The prevalence of draconian homophobic laws in Cameroon and Nigeria has systematically stultified sympathy for the LGBT communities and made pro-gay street activism a risky venture in these two countries. In view of this, a good number of gay rights activists have resorted to the social media as a suitable platform for a less risky advocacy. Using the social media has afforded them the opportunity to explore interactive, post-modern, and personified approaches to sensitizing and mobilizing their readership in favour of gay proselytism in Cameroon, Nigeria, and some other parts of Africa. Based on a content analysis of 200 blog posts and web/facebook pages generated by Cameroonian and Nigerian gay activists, this chapter measures the extent to which gay activists adopt a national/local perspective versus the level to which they adopt an international perspective in their online advocacy. The chapter equally examines the degree to which these citizen journalist/activists construct their advocacy discourse from the prism of a cultural war between the West and Africa.
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Endong, Floribert Patrick C. "Using Social Media to Advocate LGBT Rights in Black Africa." In Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+ Community, 169–88. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3674-5.ch010.

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The prevalence of draconian homophobic laws in Cameroon and Nigeria has systematically stultified sympathy for the LGBT communities and made pro-gay street activism a risky venture in these two countries. In view of this, a good number of gay rights activists have resorted to the social media as a suitable platform for a less risky advocacy. Using the social media has afforded them the opportunity to explore interactive, post-modern, and personified approaches to sensitizing and mobilizing their readership in favour of gay proselytism in Cameroon, Nigeria, and some other parts of Africa. Based on a content analysis of 200 blog posts and web/facebook pages generated by Cameroonian and Nigerian gay activists, this chapter measures the extent to which gay activists adopt a national/local perspective versus the level to which they adopt an international perspective in their online advocacy. The chapter equally examines the degree to which these citizen journalist/activists construct their advocacy discourse from the prism of a cultural war between the West and Africa.
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Odifemenuwe, Joy. "Nigeria! One week, one trouble." In Best "New" African Poets 2018 Anthology, 255–57. Mwanaka Media and Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9vtn3.174.

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Fludernik, Monika. "Poeta in Vinculis II." In Metaphors of Confinement, 171–224. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840909.003.0003.

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Continuing the contrast between personal accounts of imprisonment and fictional elaborations of carceralities, Chapter 3 concentrates on the twentieth century and on (post)colonial contexts. The three authors discussed at length are Brendan Behan, the Irish dramatist; Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian author and ecological activist; and Breyten Breytenbach, the South African poet. Whereas Behan’s and Saro-Wiwa’s autobiographical texts, at least on the surface, appear to be quite reliable, i.e. factual, accounts of their imprisonment, their literary work, just like Breytenbach’s, is highly allusive, ironic, and allegorical; they model the carceral experience through distortive lenses of comedy, farce, satire, or parable. The chapter also emphasizes the use of the prison and legal criminalization as major political strategies of discrimination against (ethnic and other) minorities as well as political dissidents.
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Olajimbiti, Ezekiel. "The Pragmatics of Political Deception on Facebook." In Research Anthology on Social Media's Influence on Government, Politics, and Social Movements, 738–54. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch036.

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Facebook, an intrinsic part of 21st century social realities where cognitive-participatory activities are largely captured, is consistently explored for political deception. This chapter investigates how participants utilize language to deceive politically the Nigerian electorate on Facebook. For data, 250 Facebook posts on Nigerian politics were sampled, out of which 50 were purposefully selected for being highly rich in deceptive content in order to unpack online deception through multimodal critical discourse analysis. Four deceptive forms—equivocation of identity, exaggeration of performance, falsification of corruption cases, and concealment of offences—within two socio-political contexts—election and opposition—constituted the posts. These prompt an evocation of a messianic figure, blunt condemnation, and evocation of sympathy and retrospection to achieve the political intentions of criticism, self-presentation, silent opposition, and galvanizing public support. The chapter concludes that political propaganda taps into Facebook users to appeal to their political biases and sway their opinions.
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