Journal Name:
- Review Of Research
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Abstract (Original Language):
An Overview: Contemporary African poetry remains implicated in the life of politics and
the fate of nations with a fixity of concern not found in Asia or the Caribbean. The end of
colonialism was followed in most African countries by decades of native misrule. For
three generations, African poets have given voice to a wide range of experiences, always
conscious that their use of English links them across regional boundaries, while they
present the language with the challenge of dealing with the local in all its uniqueness, in
circumstances ravaged by civil war, natural disasters, human greed, and political
misrule.
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