African Poetry and the English Language

Actual Dialogue African Literature African poetry Ahmadu Bello University allusion analysis aspects audience Awoonor baas Black Consciousness Breaking earth Chewa clause colour context contrast conversation cosmology criticism culture death emotional Emperor Shaka emphasised essay example expression fear Gilgamesh Glossary grammatical guerrilla Heinemann Ibid idea ideational ideological interpersonal interpretation intertextuality intonation kind Kofi Kofi Awoonor Kunene Kunene's language Lawino level of discourse linguistic literary London look M.A.K. Halliday Marxist Mazisi Kunene Mbulelo Mzamane meaning mind modern Ngugi Ngugi wa Thiong'O Nigeria Okigbo Okot Okot p'Bitek oral poetry p'Bitek performance poem poet poet's poetic point of view Post Mortem realised reference relation revolutionary role script semantic sense sentence Serote Serote's Shaka Sipho Sepamla social socialist song Song of Lawino Soweto Soyinka speaker speech act structure suggests syllable technique textual function tone tone-group traditional typical Utnapishtim verse vocabulary voice wider words writing written Yoruba Zulu