Oral Traditions and Aesthetic Transfer: Creativity and Social Vision in Contemporary Black Poetry |
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Myth Legend and the Poetics of Heroism | 17 |
Oral Art Forms and Social Vision in the Poetry of Niyi | 36 |
Kofi Anyidoho and the Ewe Funeral Dirge | 63 |
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