New Media and Mass Communication
ISSN 2224-3267 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3275 (Online)
Vol 4, 2012
African Writer As Mediator: A Study of Ayo Dada’s
Segun Omosule Ph.
D.
Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State,
Abstract
Writers...
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New Media and Mass Communication
ISSN 2224-3267 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3275 (Online)
Vol 4, 2012
African Writer As Mediator: A Study of Ayo Dada’s
Segun Omosule Ph.
D.
Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State,
Abstract
Writers in Africa have different roles to play depending on their ideologies, environments and maturity.
From
preoccupation with the oral backgrounds of Africa, most writers have matured towards representing global issues
in their themes.
From Amos Tutuola to Ayo Dada, the quests of African writers are sociological and may not be
removed from the amplification of the challenges in their environments.
The challenges of African writers are
dynamic as they are confronted by different realitie
emergence of another.
Writers are, therefore, social crusaders, teachers and preachers.
Keywords: Africa, writing, fiction, social, crusader, socio
Introduction:
Different epochs may be associated with the evolvement of the literature of African folk
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