'Who Nigeria Epp?': from muse to text, neo-Marxist appeal and alter/native canonicity of two Nigerian poets.
This article examines Nigeria as a space where the hopes and aspirations of most of its citizens are occluded owing to the rapacity of individuals who masquerade as leaders in a country once projected as the bastion of the 'Black man'. Tayo Olafioye's The Parliament of Idiots: Tryst of the Sinators...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 399 - 420 |
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