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OkotpBiteks Song of Lawino: a Lasting Influence on East African Verse

2017, International journal of humanities and social sciences

In Tasks and Masks Lewis Nkosi identifies the two main categories under which African poets of the first generation fall.First, we have the poets that are influenced by the modernist movement with Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka and John P. Clark as the leading lights. Then there are those poets who, though still modern, haveleaned more toward recovering the idiom of African oral poetry as represented by Kofi Awoonor, Mazisi Kunene, OkotP’Bitek, just to mention a few. A cursory look at contemporary African poetry reveals that, although the two models of composing poetry have existed on the continent for almost the same length of time, most of the poets have, to varying degrees, fallen under the influence of oral tradition models of composing poetry. The oral tradition trend is characterised by an array of salient features held and celebrated in common: the use of local imagery and idioms, use of simple and reasonably direct language and influence from the traditional techniques of ...

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