Isidore Diala, The Truce

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Contributors xi
4. Editorial Article
5. Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics 1
6. Articles
7. A New Frontier for African Heroic Saga 8
8. Nigeria’s Instapoetry: Cultivating Inward, Ideological Activism, Revitalizing African Orality and Re-defining the Art of Poetry 21
9. A New Direction in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry 37
10. History and the Call of Water in Romeo Oriogun’s ‘Nomad’ 50
11. Voice, Identity, Tradition in Postcolonial Modernism 59
12. Personal Reflections on Niyi Osundare, Oríkì Praise Tradition, and the Journey Motif in If Only the Road Could Talk 75
13. Lost and Gained in Translation 89
14. Poetry and Performance 106
15. Interviews
16. ALT Interview with Prof. Kofi Anyidoho – Scholar, Critic, and Award-Winning Poet 118
17. Interview with Kwame Dawes 128
18. (Re)Echoing a Collective Trauma in Nigerian Poetry: An Interview with Kehinde Akano 139
19. Tributes
20. Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana’s Literary Treasure 148
21. I Mourn Ama Ata Aidoo, the Author of ‘A Woman must be Foolish for a Marriage to Work, though a bad Marriage Destroys the Soul’ 154
22. Literary Supplement
23. Three Poems
24. A Memorial for KAMAU BRATHWAITE: An Africa – Africa Diaspora Dialogue 160
25. From Freedom to Free Doom 165
26. To The Memory of Aunty Toriomo 166
27. I Swallow Fufu 169
28. Two Poems
29. No Door, No Roof 171
30. Bowls for Alms 171
31. Two Poems
32. No peace. The Best Teacher 173
33. As I Watched Her Dying 174
34. Short Stories
35. The Mysterious Examination Paper 176
36. The Ignored 182
37. Reviews
38. Salami–Agunloye (ed), Retelling History: Restaging African Women in Drama and Film 196
39. Chika Unigwe, The Middle Daughter 200
40. Ọmófọlábọ̀, Àjàyí Ṣóyinká and Naana Banyiwa Horne (eds.), IMMIGRANT VOICES IN SHORT STORIES: Health and Wellbeing of African Immigrants in Transnational and Transformative Encounters & Spaces 204
41. Yaw Agawu-kakraba , The Restless Crucible 209
42. Kofi Anyidoho, SeedTIME 211
43. Isidore Diala, The Truce 214
44. Irene Isoken Agunloye, Disposable Womb 217
45. Iquo Diana-Abasi, Coming Undone as Stiches Tighten 221