Popular culture is the culture of everyday lives and we, according to Browne and Brown (2001:3), have seen our popular culture in ourselves. This essay compares the tragic engagements of young Africans with contemporaneous issues relating to culture and popular culture, through the fictional novels of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (1994), and Kopano Matlwa, Coconut (2007). Particular attention is paid to the stumbling blocks Sozaboy’s Mene and Coconut’s Ofilwe Tlou and Fikile Twala encounter with issues
recall of anxiety-producing experiences.” Resistance literature was about liberalism, freedom of thought and democracy. Writers such as Jack London, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s arose to struggle and finding a way to improve the life we live and speak for human beings. Works written in spirit of resistance truly moved us; as writers felt that it is enough and refused dictatorial rule and oppression, so paved the way to revolution. Thus they managed to convey their message and make people feel the
Over the years Nigeria has witnessed several empty, jabberwocky inordinate promises from our political gladiators who has used the magic of language to cajole many. However, language serves as a strong tool that our political leaders used for easy communication of thought that enhance winning of political mandate. This paper shows how language is used in politics as a tool to communicate thought and how language is used as a train to which political leaders convey meaning to the heart of Nigerians
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin