In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare's 'A Song for Olosunta'.
Time and nature are two intertwined concepts. They are so inseparable that there is a temporal index to every spatial event and vice versa. Nothing happens in a space except at a time; neither does anything happen at a time except in a space. For the Nigerian poet, Niyi Osundare, time and space occu...
| Publicado en: | English Studies in Africa Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 35 - 44 |
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