West African Poetry : A Critical History (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. From oral to written verse: development or depletion?; 2. Ladies and gentlemen; 3. The Negritude movement; 4. Poetry and the university, 1957?63; 5. The achievement of Christopher Okigbo; 6. Continuity and adaptation in Ghanaian verse, 1952?71; 7. Two Ijo poets; 8. 'Psalmody of sunsets': the career of Lenrie Peters; 9. The road to Idanre, 1959?67; 10. The poet and war, 1966?70; 11. The poetry of dissent, 1970?80; 12. The return to orality; A guide to availability; Index.