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Beyond the doctrinal and theological construct of the Bible, lies its literary, aesthetic and soc... more Beyond the doctrinal and theological construct of the Bible, lies its literary, aesthetic and sociological value. It is also not in dispute that the devotion to the sacredness of the biblical text has placed great restraint on the much needed attention to a proper socio-literary critique of the narrative. In contextualising the Nigerian church, and by implication, assessing and reassessing the state and practice of leadership in the country, from the traditional to the modern, this study attempts a foregrounding of the literariness of the Bible within the conceptual framework of post modernism, and submits that the Bible, in its truest socio-literary realization, and indeed the
It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptanc e as being indigenous to Africa. With the com... more It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptanc e as being indigenous to Africa. With the coming of the European and the introduction of writing, the nomenclature of African poetry changed to modern Af rican Poetry. This led to the assumption that modern African poetry emerged with the arrival of the Whiteman and writing culture. To this end, this study looks at tnature of modern African poetry using the poetry of nine poets, three each from the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The modern-ness of modern African poetry is look at; the impact of orality in modern African poetry is also considered. Other thi ngs considered include: the assumption of African poetry as a colonial African poetry; the impact of cultural nationalism and the Negritude movement; the languag e question in modern African poetry; and the issue of gender. The study conclude s that the collective experience of slavery and colonialism shaped the nature of modern African poetry. Also, the contributive impac...
NOLA, 2014
Abstract The Bible is a sacred book of the Christian faith, believed to have been written thro... more Abstract
The Bible is a sacred book of the Christian faith, believed to have been written through the inspiration of God. Every attempt at treating it as a literary text received cold reception at the initial stage, because the sacredness must be kept intact. Therefore, it enjoyed solely a theological approach for a long time. A literary approach was seen as an incursion on a sacred ground that even the angels feared to tread. A historical approach to the study of the Bible aids the literary encroachment on the sacred book. Through a literary approach, it was discovered that the Bible itself is a literary masterpiece comprising almost all the genres and subgenres of literature. To this end, this study takes a look at the oral literature embedded in the Bible vis-a-vis the Yoruba histo-cultural milieu. Most attention is given to the first book of the Bible – Genesis, juxtaposed with Yoruba oral tradition. Oral and literary elements are identified to foreground the literariness of the Bible. This study reveals that the Bible can be approached from a literary angle without desecrating its sacred nature and that it shares a lot of similarities with Yoruba historic oral tradition. The study concludes that Biblical accounts are fast becoming an archive which tends to be resistance to change. On the other hand, the universe of the Yoruba mind belongs to the level of a repertoire; yet part of it is gradually transmitting into an archive. Hence, orality shows that the oral has already been transformed into literature, the repertoire transformed to the archive.
It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptance as being indigenous to Africa. With the comi... more It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptance as being indigenous to Africa. With the coming of the European and the introduction of writing, the nomenclature of African poetry changed to modern African Poetry. This led to the assumption that modern African poetry emerged with the arrival of the Whiteman and writing culture. To this end, this study looks at the nature of modern African poetry using the poetry of nine poets, three each from the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The modern-ness of modern African poetry is look at; the impact of orality in modern African poetry is also considered. Other things considered include: the assumption of African poetry as a colonial African poetry; the impact of cultural nationalism and the Negritude movement; the language question in modern African poetry; and the issue of gender. The study concludes that the collective experience of slavery and colonialism shaped the nature of modern African poetry. Also, the contributive impact of the contact with Europe cannot be denied but that African poets have long left the imitating stage and move to the stage of adept.
Beyond the doctrinal and theological construct of the Bible, lies its literary, aesthetic and soc... more Beyond the doctrinal and theological construct of the Bible, lies its literary, aesthetic and sociological value. It is also not in dispute that the devotion to the sacredness of the biblical text has placed great restraint on the much needed attention to a proper socio-literary critique of the narrative. In contextualising the Nigerian church, and by implication, assessing and reassessing the state and practice of leadership in the country, from the traditional to the modern, this study attempts a foregrounding of the literariness of the Bible within the conceptual framework of post modernism, and submits that the Bible, in its truest socio-literary realization, and indeed the
It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptanc e as being indigenous to Africa. With the com... more It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptanc e as being indigenous to Africa. With the coming of the European and the introduction of writing, the nomenclature of African poetry changed to modern Af rican Poetry. This led to the assumption that modern African poetry emerged with the arrival of the Whiteman and writing culture. To this end, this study looks at tnature of modern African poetry using the poetry of nine poets, three each from the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The modern-ness of modern African poetry is look at; the impact of orality in modern African poetry is also considered. Other thi ngs considered include: the assumption of African poetry as a colonial African poetry; the impact of cultural nationalism and the Negritude movement; the languag e question in modern African poetry; and the issue of gender. The study conclude s that the collective experience of slavery and colonialism shaped the nature of modern African poetry. Also, the contributive impac...
NOLA, 2014
Abstract The Bible is a sacred book of the Christian faith, believed to have been written thro... more Abstract
The Bible is a sacred book of the Christian faith, believed to have been written through the inspiration of God. Every attempt at treating it as a literary text received cold reception at the initial stage, because the sacredness must be kept intact. Therefore, it enjoyed solely a theological approach for a long time. A literary approach was seen as an incursion on a sacred ground that even the angels feared to tread. A historical approach to the study of the Bible aids the literary encroachment on the sacred book. Through a literary approach, it was discovered that the Bible itself is a literary masterpiece comprising almost all the genres and subgenres of literature. To this end, this study takes a look at the oral literature embedded in the Bible vis-a-vis the Yoruba histo-cultural milieu. Most attention is given to the first book of the Bible – Genesis, juxtaposed with Yoruba oral tradition. Oral and literary elements are identified to foreground the literariness of the Bible. This study reveals that the Bible can be approached from a literary angle without desecrating its sacred nature and that it shares a lot of similarities with Yoruba historic oral tradition. The study concludes that Biblical accounts are fast becoming an archive which tends to be resistance to change. On the other hand, the universe of the Yoruba mind belongs to the level of a repertoire; yet part of it is gradually transmitting into an archive. Hence, orality shows that the oral has already been transformed into literature, the repertoire transformed to the archive.
It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptance as being indigenous to Africa. With the comi... more It is poetry alone that has the consensus acceptance as being indigenous to Africa. With the coming of the European and the introduction of writing, the nomenclature of African poetry changed to modern African Poetry. This led to the assumption that modern African poetry emerged with the arrival of the Whiteman and writing culture. To this end, this study looks at the nature of modern African poetry using the poetry of nine poets, three each from the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The modern-ness of modern African poetry is look at; the impact of orality in modern African poetry is also considered. Other things considered include: the assumption of African poetry as a colonial African poetry; the impact of cultural nationalism and the Negritude movement; the language question in modern African poetry; and the issue of gender. The study concludes that the collective experience of slavery and colonialism shaped the nature of modern African poetry. Also, the contributive impact of the contact with Europe cannot be denied but that African poets have long left the imitating stage and move to the stage of adept.