Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations' socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm.

Details how globalization impacts African tradition and grassroots communication and how this can be understood from aesthetic and critical perspectives Combines critical literary theory with textual analyses, political thoughts with cultural, economic, and historical discourse Presents oral poetry in local African language with English translations and analysis

Autorentext
Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah is Vice-Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Kwara State University, Nigeria. He is co-author of Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance (2005), and author of Africanity, Islamicity and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (2009), African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (2010), and Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World (2011).

Inhalt

1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era.- 2. Criticism of African Art and Literature.- 3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics.- 4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer.- 5. Conclusion.