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		<title>SHADOWS OF A NIGHT II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE BEGINNING&#8230;
“Oh thank you sir!” the teen began gratefully as she gathered the remains of her dress. “You saved my life. You saved my body. Thank you. Thank you sir!” she spoke feverishly. Ozi did not hear a thing until the girl, in appreciation, embraced him from behind. He felt the soft touch of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=46&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teen poets compete in New Orleans Youth Slam, hope for HBO Brave New Voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Nigeria: The Background Music to My Writing Life -Toni Kan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>THE WAY TO EUROPE&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE WAY TO EUROPE...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=178&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Failings Of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ebereonwu&#8217;s foreword to his latest collection of poetry published in Vanguard on the 25th July, 2004 has prompted me finally into writing this essay about the nature of recent Nigerian poetry over which I had been musing for quite sometime. I must however hasten to say that I am doing this not as a professional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=176&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Okri (1959-)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist, Story Writer, Poet, Essayist, Critic.
Born 1959. Active 1980- in Nigeria, England, Africa, Britain, Europe
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		<title>AFRICAN LITERATURE</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/african-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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African literature
 

Main


the body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European languages. Traditional written literature, which is limited to a smaller geographic area than is oral literature, is most characteristic of those sub-Saharan cultures that have participated in the cultures of the Mediterranean. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=171&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>READING AS A WOMAN&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading As A Woman: Chinua Achebe&#8217;s Things Fall Apart And Feminist Criticism
Linda Strong-Leek
Does &#8220;reading as a woman&#8221; change one&#8217;s perspective on a text? Can a woman read as a woman after being conditioned, generally, to read as a man? In his On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, Jonathan Culler (1982) addresses these issues and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=168&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/survival-of-the-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Survival of the Beautiful
is the Book of the Year in Nigeria and it is the latest adventure novel from the prize winning Nigerian author Bisi Ojediran.
Abel falls in love with Kiki, the shabbily dressed lady who turns out a different sort of prostitute, and in return for his kindness, Kiki hands him a &#8216;mystery&#8217;note, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=165&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ways of Dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ways of Dying
by
Zakes Mda
 

 
Ways of Dying covers only a few days, from Christmas through New Year&#8217;s Eve, but these mark a considerable change in the life of the central character, Toloki. He meets and winds up moving in with a childhood friend from his hometown, Noria, as both come to terms with much of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=163&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bound to Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bound to Violence
by
Yambo Ouologuem

 From the Reviews:

&#8220;Bound to Violence, a first novel, is a great one (&#8230;..) It deserves many readings, since mistaken views are apt to come out of the first. (&#8230;) Ouologuem writes of surviving all oppression and, perhaps, even thriving on it. His novel is something of a skyscraper. It has multi-levels, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=161&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Thousand Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;(H)is Two Thousand Seasons &#8212; in which he is trying to re-create the history of Africa &#8212; I find unacceptable on the basis of fact, and on the basis of art. The work is ponderous and heavy and wooden, almost embarrassing in its heaviness. It doesn&#8217;t have the air of epic authenticity which Ouologuem achieves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=159&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Narrative Situation And Ideology&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/narrative-situation-and-ideology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Narrative situation and ideology in five novels of Ayi Kwei Armah 
Garry Gillard
The novels of Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah provide an opportunity to study a confrontation between European and African patterns of thought. [1] This confrontation (and its effects: the original confusion and disillusionment, followed by fragmentation and disintegration and then by compromise and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=157&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghanian Star</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/the-ghanian-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayi Kwei Armah was born in 1939 to Fante-speaking parents in the twin harbor city of Sekondi Takoradi, in western Ghana. On his father&#8217;s side Armah was descended from a royal family in the Ga tribe.
Ghanaian novelist and poet, known for his visionary symbolism, poetic energy, and the extremely high moral integrity of his political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=155&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LITERARY CIRCLE</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/literary-circle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A session with Niyi Osundare

Professor Niyi OsundareRenowned poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, was the guest at a forum organised Monday, last week, by the Literary Circle of the Redeemer’s University. Akintayo Abodunrin reports highlights of the session. 

IT is not often that one gets to interact with a poet of Niyi Osundare’s stature. So, for members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=153&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WIFELY DUTIES</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/wifely-duties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to be a virtuous woman

A review of ‘Bolanle Owojori’s Wifely Duties, Wifely Don’ts by Akintayo Abodunrin.

THERE is no gainsaying the fact that the success of a marriage and invariably that of a home depends on the wife. Many homes, it is said, receive their temperament, colour etc from the mother. Actually, several commentators have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=151&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEASURING TIME&#8230;BY HELON HABILA</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/measuring-timeby-helon-habila/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of two
Helon Habila&#8217;s investigation of Nigerian politics and community, Measuring Time, impresses Giles Foden
Twins, quadratures and syzygies have long been part of Nigerian literature and myth, usually as a challenge to views of society based on the primacy of the individual. Given the way the country has gone, Nigeria now being a byword [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=147&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OUSTING THE MONSTERS</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/ousting-the-monsters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maya Jaggi
The Guardian,
Saturday November 2 2002
Article history


Wole Soyinka. Photo: Eamonn McCabe

When the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994, and was sentenced to death in absentia by the military regime of Sani Abacha in 1997, he likened the &#8220;liminal but dynamic&#8221; state of the writer in exile to a parachutist&#8217;s free fall. His limbo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=145&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ELLIPSIS&#8230; FOR JANE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELLIPSES&#8230;
 
ellipsis&#8230;
there are some words
inexplicable that escape my lips
there are some feelings
indefinable that defy my reasons
there with you lying skin to skin
on the beach of dreams and desires
our horizon is borderless and bright
in our effervescent skies no twilight
you know how to pull the strings of my soul
you know how to beat the drum of my heart
and you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=142&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOME WORKS OF WOLE SOYINKA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wole Soyinka&#8217;s Works


1958 The Swamp Dwellers, drama


1959 The Lion and the Jewel, drama


introduction and reading questions by Paul Brians (offsite: Washington State University)




1960 The Trials of Brother Jero, drama


introduction and reading questions by Paul Brians (offsite: Washington State University)




1965 The Interpreters, fiction (discussion)


&#8212;-Before the Blackout, drama


&#8212;-Kongi&#8217;s Harvest, drama


&#8212;-The Detainee, (BBC Radio Play)


1967, &#8220;The Writer in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=140&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE BOTTLED LEOPARD AUTHOR</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-bottled-leopard-author/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Chukwuemeka Vincent Ike
 
IKE, (Vincent) Chukwuemeka (1931-), Nigerian novelist, was born in eastern Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan and at Stanford in the USA.
As an educator, Ike has contributed to the intellectual and cultural development of Africa in important administrative positions at Nigerian universities and at UNESCO and as professor at the University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=138&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRISIS IN THE SOUL II</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/crisis-in-the-soul-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CRISIS IN THE SOUL&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/crisis-in-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Crisis in the soul&#8221; In Chinua Achebe&#8217;s No Longer At Ease
Dr. Jaya Lakshmi Rao V., Mrs A.V. N. College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Among the West African Anglophone writers who endeavored to present an authentic picture of the African milieu along with its cultural past, its inherent anarchy and its colonial trauma, its heady independence period from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=131&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NO LONGER AT EASE!</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/no-longer-at-ease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Longer at Ease: Commentary

Added by Melissa Culross
In No Longer at Ease, set in Nigeria just prior to independence, Achebe extends his history of the Okonkwo family. Here the central character is Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the tragic hero of Things Fall Apart. This Okonkwo has been raised a Christian and has been educated at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=129&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARROW OF GOD</title>
		<link>http://beibee.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/arrow-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
A book review by Danny Yee dannyreviews.com
Ezeulu is the chief priest of Ulu, the leading deity of a group of Ibo villages. He seems secure in his position, but contact with the British colonial administration becomes the catalyst for a power struggle within the community that will unseat both him and his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beibee.wordpress.com&blog=3733856&post=127&subd=beibee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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