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- ItemOpen Access"Creativity as Celebrations of Joy and Pain: David Diop's "Africa" and the Semiotisation of History"(The Faculty of Arts University of Lagos, 2010) Nwagbara, A. U.The conjuration of history as a metaphor of creativity in African literary writings represents a seminal reconstruction of the intensity of the collective experiences of the continent, a re-living of its joys and pains, the creative enterprise and the culture of its actualisation in African literary experience 10 u large extent signify the expression and celebration of the joys and pains of its history. The persistent interjection of fact and fiction in African literary imagination represents the reconstruction and re-enactment of the experiences of the African peoples over lime, the revocation of the power of memory as a process of not just probe and recall, bur a journey into the collective subconscious of Africans as a celebration of their history through literature. 111 this sense, creativity is, as well as en/ails a complex and intricate process and activity of recall. the conscious invocation of the collective experiences and encounters of the African peoples with their past, their transformation into the present and a projection into the future. This paper therefore sets out 10 study Diop's "Africa" and its signification of history as celebrated encounter of recall an-d reconstruction of Africa's joy and pain through time and space, it sets out to examine how literary creativity constitutes an avenue through which the collective -experience of a people is expressed as well as being a medium for marking and celebrating the joys and pains of their historical realities and interests, This situation is more relevant in Africa given the close link between history and literature.
- ItemOpen AccessIdentities and Representations: A Socio-Semiotic Perspective to the Challenges of linguistic Pluralism, Conflicts and Nation Building in Nigeria(Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos. Akoka, Nigeria, 2001) Nwagbara, A. U.Staff Publications
- ItemOpen Accesslconicitv and the Pragmatics of Discourse in Nigerian Poetry in English: The Example of Niyi Osundare(African Cultural Institute, 2003) Nwagbara, A. U.Staff Publications
- ItemOpen AccessMbari Heritage and Chinua Achebe's Pluralingual Aesthetics(Pumark, 2010) Nwagbara, A. U.Contemporary Nigerian literary art as it stands today has greatly benefited from Chinua Achebe's Landmark: literary artistry and pioneering efforts at re-engineering the' English language to accommodate African thoughts and socio-cultural experiences. Through an admixture of distinct linguistic talent, creative ingenuity and insights garnered from the Mbari Art and oral tradition of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria, Achebe initiated and institutionalised an indigenous model of cross-cultural literary aesthetics in Nigeria, which not only inaugurated a distinct form of literary art but also instituted Q literary tradition the core of which, in my opinion, largely stems from his ability to synchronise the multiple influences of his indigenous linguistic and artistic values and heritage with those of western civilization and literary tradition.