Thanks for the link to the Nwankanma article.
I enjoyed his sense of language, the way he uses words and ideas.
On Nigerian and even African writing, I know little about it and am trying to learn. Rather than ask anyone to help with a survey of Nigerian writing, I would like guidance to any source that can guide one on the post Achebe, Soyinka and Ngugi generation of African writers: book/s, websites? I had earlier pinned my hopes on Pius Adesanmi's Project on New African Literatures, if I have the name right, but the last I checked it seemed to be offline.
I am interested in exploring but my particular interest is in non-realist literature. The kind of literary work I enjoy reading most is one that involves transforming reality, hence Western magical fantasy is my favourite fictional genre. I also like science fiction that explores alternative possibilities of consciousness.
Beyond these groups, I like works that are powerfully philosophical or mythic or both, thats why I love Soyinka and Okri. i also enjoy works that even though not clearly fantasy or magical, look at the world in ways that imply living in the world from a perspective different from the conventional and experiencing it differently. Thats why I love Okri and Jorge Luis Borges and why I am beginning to enjoy Katsuo Ishiguro.
As for works beyond strictly literary material, I am interested in any kind of poetic writing in any religion. Philosophical writing that is highly imaginative and possibly poetic also interests me.
I mentioned my interests in case you or anyone else can suggest any African writers who could help satisfy those tastes.
Thanks
toyin
On 1 August 2011 16:04, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
--Our good friend Obi Nwakanma has a lot to say about the state of Nigerian Literature today. Not sure I agree with him, he seems to be doing the same thing over and over, romanticisizing the past. I don't know, Nigerians are writing A LOT, it is just that a few people imagine themselves to be authorities on the subject of Nigerian writing and they seem to want to talk about it obsessively, me being one of the a few people, lol! I get the sense that Obi Nwakanma has not been reading much of contemporary Nigerian writing lately. He sure is reading some fairly ancient books. A couple of years is a long time in the life of Nigerian literatureIt is interesting that even as Obi Nwakanma examined historical Nigerian literature, he ignored the works of the female writers of the era - Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, nee Nwakuche, etc.. The more I read his piece, the more inchoate it comes across. He takes himself too seriously. Literature does not belong on the shelves of libraries. Libraries are dying anyway ;-)Your thoughts? Read him here...- Ikhide
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