Okafor Williams

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African Literature. I am writing a paper.

Anyone here writing literary papers. A professor is providing funding for a potential paper. I a looking for a co-author. Note: only the publication fee is paid directly to the journal. It is a...

01 January 1970 3,306 14 View

African novelists think they are anthropologists

I read this amazing paper - African Languages and African Literature Cecilia A. Eme & Davidson U. Mbagwu DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v12i1.7 My argument is this: I strongly think...

01 January 1970 7,238 6 View

I do not see any racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

I beg to differ from Achebe's over-sensitivity. If anything, Heart of Darkness is a critique of colonialism through the eyes of the fictional Charlie Marlow. I didn't find an insult in the book...

01 January 1970 9,519 3 View

How can we stop Emerging African authors from distracting other Africans.

I find it sad that new African authors are beginning to inundate Afro-Literary-Space with foreign language bias, challenging African readers and writers to learn proper English, with the belief...

01 January 1970 7,804 1 View

Source languaguage bias in Africal literature

my doubts on that style of writing

01 January 1970 2,008 1 View

A truly Intellectual conversation - looking at African Literature from outside the box

African literature has potential. My hero, Chinua Achebe, blessed us when he learnt the novel format from the Europeans. We should follow in his footsteps.

01 January 1970 2,513 2 View

Is African Culture An Illusion? 1. African Pronunciation of English Words.

This is part 1 in the series. To support your argument, cite your articles or articles from other researchers whenever you can: ================ Because African writing systems and academia were...

01 January 1970 9,294 4 View

Pan-Africanists senselessly policing how English should be spoken in African countries

. . . Especially black South Africa, Anglophone Cameroon, Uganda, and Nigeria: I find it troubling that Africans who work hard to improve their English skills, particularly in vocabulary and...

01 January 1970 130 2 View

1993 Idowu, Bolaji. “An Introducon: Religion and Cultural Renewal” ORITA IX/ 2 Dec. 1975

I like this quote: Language reckons as a vital factor in the maintenance, sustenance; and moulding of a people’s culture. A people without a bonafide language, a people who is no longer proud of...

01 January 1970 9,779 3 View

An article "African Englishes in the Oxford English Dictionary" by (Danica Salazar)

I read the above paper. Here is my honest opinion: The idea of Europe granting us our type of English (a sort of Affirmative Action) further segregates us because they believe we can't learn...

01 January 1970 3,007 0 View