Soyinka’s Unrelenting Quest for an African Spring

Authors

  • Dr. V. Swarnalatha Professor, H&S Department, SRIT, Anantapur (AP)

Keywords:

Harmattan haze, Postcolonialism, Soyinka

Abstract

The article ‘Soyinka’s Unrelenting Quest for an African Spring’ is a review on Harmattan Haze on an African Spring. This book was earlier published by Yale under the Title ‘Of Africa’. It focuses on Africa’s post-colonial experience in the new millennium. It highlights Soyinka’s position on the contradictions on the continent and he takes the question of development to the individual.

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Published

01.07.2013

How to Cite

V. Swarnalatha. (2013). Soyinka’s Unrelenting Quest for an African Spring. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 5(1), 15–17. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL050105

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013): July

Section

Research Articles

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