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International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature
Volume 7, Issue 6, 2019, Page No: 22-33

Wole Soyinka's Ake and African Philosophy of Culture

Maduabuchi Dukor*

Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.

Citation : Maduabuchi Dukor, Wole Soyinka's Ake and African Philosophy of Culture International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 2019;7(6):22-33.

INTRODUCTION

Ernest Emenyonu had said wisely that literature of a people is more or less an "imaginative recreation of a people's account of their social, cultural, political and economic perspectives of a given time and place".(Nnolim, 2015:30) The social and the cultural as an encompassing worldview including the political and the economic is here arrayed to crystallize the sublime philosophical perspectives and literary aesthetics out of a clash of civilizations, the rhythm and contradictions of traditional and natural environment in Ake and how they collectively and generally became a burden to one's curiosity in seeking to understand the other, the local, then the foreign or invading white man's modern views, nay acculturation and enculturation.


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