Describing a significant shift in African poetry, Chris Albani explains how the genre has moved away from its early focus on nationalism and the formation of the nation-state.
Arguing that while early African literature was often constrained by the need to create nationalist myths, a new generation of poets is now free to explore the “deep modernist sense of the self.” This new work, is more concerned with the individual’s place within culture and politics, rather than with larger, epic themes.
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