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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck:
    (2008) Anyokwu, C.
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a much-decorated, award winning female Nigerian novelist whose debut novel entitled Purple Hibiscus and her superlative sophomore war novel Half o fa Yellow Sun have earned her a place in the burgeoning Nigerian (African) canon. Sharing her time between Nigeria, her motherland, and the United States of America where she took all her university degrees and works, Adichie has successfully mined her Diaspora experience as material for her imaginative apprehension of as well as critical engagement with the contemporary (post)-modem condition conveyed through the institutional site of literary creativity. In this connection, therefore, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the story collection entitled The Thing Around Your Neck thematises the timeless problematique of migrancy as the inevitable repercussion of socio-economic adversity occasioned by bad leadership and. at a much deeper level. as an onto logic condition of man. This paper, therefore, uses Adichie's work as template to reflect on migrancy as a shaping or framing term of existential experience of Third world inhabitants in particular and humankind in general.
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    King's Horseman Or Olokun-Esin?
    (University or Lagos Press, University of Lagos, Akoka - Yaba,Lagos., 2006) Anyokwu, C.
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    "Mbari" and the Igbo Concept of Art in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
    (2008) Anyokwu, C.
    'Mbari'Ls an Igbo art form which involves the moulding of artistically forged figures such as the Earth Goddess, several other deities and idealities in rhe Igbo pantheon as well as humans and inanimate objects. all in kneaded special clay. Mbari also is an art/act of sacrifice which embodies both the functional and aesthetic dimensions of African art. This dual function of the Igbo art derives from the fact that the Igbo traditional artists usually abandon their carefully-designed pieces to the ravages of the elements. and start remoulding from scratch in a subsequent season. This is the basis of what in this paper is called Ephemeral Art of the Igbo: an aesthetic philosophy shot through with the values of dynamism. innovativeness and indeed kinesis. Achebe thus relies on this Mbari art philosophy as the informing principle of his own work and. in Things Fall Apart in particular, uses Mbari as a counterfoil to the classical (Western)concept of art.
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    Niyi Osundare and the Interface Language Factor.
    (2005) Anyokwu, C.
    Niyi Osundare is arguably the guiding light of the "post"- Soyinka- Okigbo - Clark generation of African poets, a fact borne out by not only his prolificity but the numerous local and international awards and decorations he has won. Osundare has steadily matured over time in his deft handling of language through his unique conflation of his native Yoruba (source language) and the English language (i.e. target language). This phenomenon, akin to the Achebean prescription, is what we have termed "the Interface language". Thus. this paper seeks to demonstrate using Osundare's oeuvre how "the people's poet" does this
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    Osundare's Poetry and the Yoruba Worldview
    (Purdue University Press © Purdue University., 2011-03) Anyokwu, C.