Course Description & Objectives:
- This course will explore the theory and issues that inform and affect African Poetry and the contemporary experience.
- It will especially examine the development of African Poetry in the contemporary era and the impact contemporary African poets have had on the social reality as well as vision.
- It will also explore the impact of changes in the contemporary era on the aesthetic stance of the poets.
- It will focus very deliberately on the poets that have become prominent during the 1980s up to date and have influenced the development of African Poetry:
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