Fela’s “Movement of the People”: A Review of Ogun Ahoyaya
“M.O.P” is a powerful song that explores the themes of imperialism, oppression, and cultural identity.
Analysis
Themes in Flora Nwapa’s “Efuru”
Some of the themes in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru are the joy of motherhood, obstinacy, love, failed marriage, and clash of cultures.
Poem: NEPA by Niyi Osundare
The fridge is warm, the stove is cold Hunger in the house is strong and bold You come and go, you go and come
Content Analysis of Lenrie Peters’ “The Panic of Growing Older”
“The Panic of Growing Older” by Lenrie Peters is a poem about the growing anxieties of man as he undergoes different phases in his life.
Content Analysis of Niyi Osundare’s “Inu Rere”
“Inu Rere” extols the virtue of good-naturedness or good conscience and draws attention to its benefits. The poem is quite conversational.
An Exposition on God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène’s God’s Bits of Wood is a historical novel about the railmen strike in Senegal and Mali that lasted from October 1947 to March 1948.
Content Analysis of Ayi Kwei Armah’s “News”
“News” is an assessment of the several coup d’etats and attempted coups that became rife in most African countries in the first decade of their independence.
Content Analysis of Lade Worsonu’s “Raider of the Treasure Trove”
Raider of the Treasure Trove by Lade Worsonu is no doubt a strong warning about the dangers of rage and the need to eschew it in pursuit of a calm peaceful life.
Critical Analysis of Ola Rotimi’s “The Gods are not to Blame”
The play is a brilliant adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, given a Yoruba setting and internalized into its cosmos.
Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s “Abiku”
“Abiku” is a poem in which Soyinka explores the Yoruba belief in a mysterious child, a changeling, that keeps coming into the world through the same woman and leaving it in childhood, defying all powers to prevent its dying.
Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s “The Apotheosis of Master Sergeant Doe”
The Apotheosis of Master Sergeant Doe is a highly satirical poem, the lyric mocks the transformation of Master Sergeant Doe from a lean, self-effacing and soft-spoken leader to a corrupt, corpulent, brutal and despotic Commander-in-Chief of Liberia.
Analysis of Gabriel Okara’s “Piano and Drums”
In “Piano and Drums”, Okara employs the idiom of music to discuss the subject of culture conflict.
Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s “The Children of this Land”
Wole Soyinka’s “The Children of this Land” focuses on Nigerian youth who are alienated from their country because it does not give them opportunities to realise their potentials fully.
Analysis of Susan Kiguli’s “Because I Love this Land”
“Because I Love this Land” is an expression of the poet’s love for her country, Uganda. It is constituted of three parts.
Analysis of Jack Mapanje’s “Warm Thoughts for Ken Saro-Wiwa”
“Warm Thoughts for Ken Saro-Wiwa” celebrates brotherhood of the pen among writers, victims of misuse of power in dictatorships where they are imprisoned, hounded into exile, or murdered for defending and writing about justice and human rights.
Analysis of David Rubadiri’s “Stanley Meets Mutesa”
“Stanley Meets Mutesa” narrates the journey of Henry Stanley (born John Rowlands), one of the British explorers who worked for the colonization of some African countries and their annexation to the British Empire, to the land of King Mutesa of Buganda.
On Ahmadou Kourouma’s “Allah is Not Obliged”
Allah is Not Obliged projects the picture of a dystopian world where killings are banal, modeled after Hobbesian state of nature where only the strong and mighty survive.
Q & A: How does “The Leader and the Led” justify the type of leadership in Africa?
Osundare first addresses the issues of bad leadership, leadership ineptitude, and gross misgovernance which have become the rallying cries for many short-changed African followers.
Content Analysis of Sola Owonibi’s HOMELESS, NOT HOPELESS
In “Homeless, not Hopeless”, Sola Owonibi brings to fore a circle of beggars, the lowest rung of the society, often ignored, however a necessary ingredient in the broth called human society.
Analysis of A. Igoni Barrett’s BLACKASS
Blackass tells a story of abrupt transformations, racial discrimination, exploitation, the working of the high classed society, and the intrusive power of social media.
Content Analysis of Agostinho Neto’s THE GRIEVED LANDS OF AFRICA
The poem appears to say there is no difference between the primordial transatlantic slave trade and colonialism; that slavery is slavery no matter what name one calls it or embellishments one gives it. It is an outright depiction of a slavery movement that shook the continent of Africa vigorously.
Figures of Speech in Maya Angelou’s CAGED BIRD
Maya Angelou’s poem addresses the harsh realities of the African Americans. In “the free bird”, she adumbrates what living in freedom means and in “the Read More
Content Analysis of Maya Angelou’s CAGED BIRD
Have you ever been locked in a room, either by accident or out of your own design? I had been locked from the outside more Read More
Analysis of Abiodun J. Macaulay’s OBANLA (Travails of our Heroes)
Abiodun J. Macaulay’s Obanla (Travails of Our Heroes) paints a bigger picture of a society, Iluora, largely infested by ills perpetrated within the corridors of Read More
Content Analysis of Chibuike Onu’s A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT
Analysis In Nigeria where Chibuike Onu, the poet, comes from, the government civil service is highly sought. Only that it is hard to get yourself Read More