This research will use Ojo Bakare ’s The Gods and The Scavengers as the platform for the analysis. Many playwrights have come and gone‚ many still exist‚ names like William Shakespeare‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ Jean Pierre‚ Paul Satre‚ Femi Osofisan‚ Wole Soyinka‚ John Pepper Clark‚ Esiaba Irobi‚ have been canonized for the uniqueness and vividness of the works. The playwright has the most essential duty of edu-taining the readers and or audience alike beyond mere didactic purposes.
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BlackOut ’Blackout’ is a short story by Roger Mais. It is set in Jamaica and is about racism and the contrast of two different races‚ sexes and cultures! The story starts off explaining the blackout in the city and the general atmosphere of uncomfortable and tense over the city. At this point the story builds an expectation of some sort of conflict. An American women was waiting at a bus stop. Suprisingly she was not bothered by the darkness‚ and she was not nervous. A black man slowly approaches
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Letterkunde Universiteit Gent Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte Academiejaar 2011-2012 Promotor: prof. dr. Stef Craps 1 Table of contents Foreword and Thanks Introduction Sexuality and Homosexuality in Africa Terminology “Africa” Literature study Wole Soyinka: The Interpreters (1965) Yulisa Amadu Maddy: No Past‚ No Present‚ No Future (1973) Rebeka Njau: Ripples in the Pool (1975) Ama Ata Aidoo: Our Sister Killjoy (1977) Tatamkhulu Afrika: “The Vortex” and “The Treadmill” (1996) Jude Dibia: Walking with
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Essay: submission deadline 14 December 2011 d) What are the main arguments for and against the repatriation of cultural material? Discuss with reference either to human remains or archaeological artefacts. The issue of the repatriation of cultural material is a very topical one‚ with this year seeing a statue of Aphrodite being returned to Sicily by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles‚ the Boston Museum of Fine Arts re-uniting the statue of the “Weary Herakles” to Turkey (see fig 1 below)
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Assess the proposition that the ethnic rivalry between the Hutus and Tutsi people was the main contributing factor in the outbreak of the Rwandan Genocide In 1994. When assessing ethnic rivalry between the Hutus and the Tutsi it is evident that it was one of the significant factors that lead to the Rwandan Genocide. However‚ other contributing factors such as‚ the assassination of both the Rwandan and Burundi Presidents‚ the flaws in the demographic nature of the country‚ and the economic stance
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The Nobel Prize is an annual international award. It is bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel‚ the inventor of dynamite‚ established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics‚ Chemistry‚ Physiology or Medicine‚ Literature‚ and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo‚ Norway‚ while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm‚ Sweden. The Nobel Prize
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Twentieth-century theatre describes a period of great change within the theatrical culture of the 20th century. There was a widespread challenge to long established rules surrounding theatrical representation; resulting in the development of many new forms of theatre‚ including modernism‚ Expressionism‚ political theatre and other forms of Experimental theatre‚ as well as the continuing development of already established theatrical forms like naturalism and realism. Throughout the century‚ the artistic
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embedded in my soul? I’m so tired of living. My beloved husband is between life and death. What will I do now? How can I find for those cherry blossoms that would cure his mysterious sickness? This is not the right time for me to quit. I need to be strong and to be brave enough. Tomorrow‚ I will start my journey. With my improvised hot air balloon‚ destiny will take me to Japan. I’ll be able to find there the cherry blossom that would bring back the vitality of my life- my husband. But for now‚ I need
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New criticism approaches - FOUZIA LAKHMOR - G3 - S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚
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Post-colonialism "Post-colonialism" designates a set of theoretical approaches which focus on the direct effects and aftermaths of colonization. It also represents an attempt at transcending the historical definition of its primary object of study toward an extension of the historic and political notion of "colonizing" to other forms of human exploitation‚ normalization‚ repression and dependency. Post-colonialism forms a composite but powerful intellectual and critical movement which renews the
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