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The Evolution of the Nigerian State from the Colonial Era through the Present Democratic Dispensation.​ The Nigerian state has grappled with threats to nationhood since independence as several irredentist movements have truncated the maturation of the country into a nation state.
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Size: Format: PDF. Description: Postprint Article. Login Register. View Usage Statistics. Her question struck me because it seemed so different from the approach students had taken when I first started teaching Nigerian films. Seven years later, at Kwara State University, Malete, I have not noticed this same sense of embarrassment.

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The students in the Film Unit of the School of Visual and Performing Arts are there because they want to become a part of the Nigerian film industry. They pass around pirated digital copies of the latest Nigerian films on laptops and phones, and they often seem slightly bored when watching films from outside of Africa.

But these new cinema films draw audiences who prefer Nigerian to American films. These are not the historic open-air theatres of Ouagadougou or Kano or the video parlors that even those without televisions could afford, but instead new multiplexes in malls, tied closely to multinational businesses like the South African grocery store Shoprite or the American fast food restaurant KFC.

And it is these Nigerian films that my students want to write about for their BA theses and these filmmakers they want to do their national youth service with. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary.

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Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. Because Africans did not record events that took place during antiquity in written form, the development of poetry is credited to the Indo-European language group that includes Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, and its Brythonic and Goidelic subgroups.

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Despite the historical record, ancient Africans knew what poetry was, and they made good use of it. From ancient India came the Vedas which predate B. Where is the African representation in this history? African poetry is assumed to be absent because there were no written records, but the African oral tradition at the time of Homer was thriving.

African poems from time immemorial were bequeathed to the people through the oral tradition, and they still survive in African shanties, villages, and towns today. Remember Ken Saro Wiwa. Africa has had innumerable thinkers who have sought to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form of art, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad poetry.

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Africans did that, just as the ancient Chinese in the Shi Jing or the Five Classics , developed a canon of poetry that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. Without delving into the details of Poetics, one tenant of the study determined that poetry must have rules. For example, Aristotle's Poetics describes the three genres of poetry as epic, comic, and tragic.

Later, forms of poetry, such as the epic or lyric poem, were identified.