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Volume 23-24 (2001): Issue 1 (Apr 2001)

in Matatu
Publisher:
Brill | Rodopi
Preliminary material
By: Editors Matatu
Pages: i–xiii
Publication Date: 26 Apr 2001
Oil Boom, Oil Doom
By: KEN SARO-WIWA
Pages: 1–12
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English is the Hero
By: KEN SARO-WIWA
Pages: 13–19
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Literary Memoirs of the Nigerian Civil War
By: CRAIG W. MCLUCKIE
Pages: 21–39
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Wole Soyinka’s Cultural Activism: His Representations of Detention in The Detainee, Madmen and Specialists, Season of Anomy and The Man Died
By: WERNER SEDLAK
Pages: 41–54
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The Social Crusade of Wole Soyinka
By: ONOOKOME OKOME
Pages: 55–64
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“Nothing Puzzles God!”: Chinua Achebe’s Civil War Stories
By: WILLFRIED F. FEUSER
Pages: 65–72
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The Metaphysics of Abiku: A literary heritage in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
By: BODE SOWANDE
Pages: 73–81
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We Cannot Afford To Fail
By: FESTUS IYAYI
Pages: 83–89
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Coming Out Grinning
By: BIYI BANDELE-THOMAS
Pages: 91–95
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Poems from Waiting Laughters
By: NIYI OSUNDARE
Pages: 97–105
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Three Poems
By: OBIWU
Pages: 106–108
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A Green Tree
By: OWITI-K’AKUMU
Pages: 109–110
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Three Poems
By: KAYODE SANNI
Pages: 111–114
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Two Poems
By: OGAGA IFOWODU
Pages: 115–120
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Two Poems
By: OBINA NWACHUKWU
Pages: 121–122
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Three Poems
By: IDRIS O.O. AMALI
Pages: 123–126
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Three Poems
By: ELIAS DUNU
Pages: 127–129
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From the Closet to the Marketplace: Popular Poetry and the Democratic Space in Nigeria
By: NIYI OSUNDARE
Pages: 131–139
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Gabriel Okara: The Poet as Lonely African
By: THOMAS R. KNIPP
Pages: 141–160
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I Am One of Africa’s Accidents
By: NIYI OSUNDARE
Pages: 161–181
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In the Pockets of My Memory
By: NIYI OSUNDARE
Pages: 183–192
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Many Ways to Kill a Rat
By: ‘SOLA OSOFISAN
Pages: 193–197
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The Last Interview
By: MAMMAN JIYA VATSA
Pages: 199–207
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The Return of Timbuktu
By: DAPO ADENIYI
Pages: 209–221
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Opium
By: FEMI OSOFISAN
Pages: 223–250
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The Press, Politics and Democracy in Nigeria Since 1960
By: OLATUNJI DARE
Pages: 251–264
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The Nigerian Press and the Ruling Class
By: LAI OSO
Pages: 265–274
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Political Values and the Nigerian Film
By: HYGINUS EKWUAZI
Pages: 275–282
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Creative Endeavour and the Nigerian Environment
By: OHIOMA I.Y. POGOSON
Pages: 283–286
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The Role of the Writer in a Developing Society
By: BOLA IGE
Pages: 287–293
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Challenges of Being a Female Writer in a Male-Dominated Developing Society
By: MABEL SEGUN
Pages: 295–302
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A Response to Ode Ogede
By: LEIF LORENTZON
Pages: 303–306
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African Literature, Feminism, and Social Change
By: MOLARA OGUNDIPE-LESLIE
Pages: 307–322
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A Matriarch Comes Centre-Stage
By: ZULU SOFOLA
Pages: 323–328
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Strategies Neglected: The Yoruba Native Play Revisited
By: CRISTINA BOSCOLO
Pages: 329–358
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Two Poems
By: ISMAIL B. GARBA
Pages: 359–360
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TANURE OJAIDE, The Poetry of Wole Soyinka (Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1994), 140 pages, ISBN 978-023-006-8. Distributed by African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street. Oxford OXl lHU, England.
By: Ode S. Ogede
Pages: 361–364
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BERNTH LINDFORS, comp. Black African Literature in English, 1992-1996 (Oxford: Hans Zell, an imprint of James Currey, 2000), 654 pages, cloth £ 90.00 / US$ 140.00; ISBN 0-85255-565-2.
By: Geoffrey V. Davis
Pages: 364–366
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BARRY HALLEN. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse About Values in Yoruba Culture (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2000). 201 pages.
By: Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Pages: 367–369
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ERNEST EMENYONU. Tales of Our Motherland (Ibadan: Heinemann, 1999). 163 pages.
By: Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Pages: 369–371
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NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
By: Editors Matatu
Pages: 373–374
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