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Eldership, Ancestral Traditions and Cultural Identity in African Fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost (2020)
Report
Osei-Nyame Jnr., K. (2020). Eldership, Ancestral Traditions and Cultural Identity in African Fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost

This paper explores the place and significance of the representations of eldership and ancestral traditions in African fiction. It argues that what the examples located within the selected texts discussed are not merely co-incidental, but collectivel... Read More about Eldership, Ancestral Traditions and Cultural Identity in African Fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost.

Drama and philosophy: a study of selected texts within the Ijaw oral tradition (2020)
Thesis
Titus-Green, A. J. Drama and philosophy: a study of selected texts within the Ijaw oral tradition. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation, titled, Drama and Philosophy: A Study of Selected Texts Within the Ijaw Oral Tradition, aims to examine certain attributes and attitudes about the Ijaw, particularly the founding principles and core values rooted in their identity,... Read More about Drama and philosophy: a study of selected texts within the Ijaw oral tradition.

Ama Ata Aidoo (2009)
Book Chapter
Osei-Nyame Jnr., K. (2009). Ama Ata Aidoo. In J. Parini (Ed.), British writers. Supplement XV (1-14). Charles Scribner's Sons

Toward the Decolonization of African Postcolonial Theory: The Example of Kwame Appiah’s In My Father’s House vis-à-vis Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy, Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, and Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale (2007)
Book Chapter
Osei-Nyame Jnr., K. (2007). Toward the Decolonization of African Postcolonial Theory: The Example of Kwame Appiah’s In My Father’s House vis-à-vis Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy, Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel, and Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale. In T. R. Klein, U. Auga, & V. Prüschenk (Eds.), Texts, Tasks, and Theories: Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 3 (78-100). Brill