Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry

by Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331975078X
• ISBN13: 9783319750781
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"