Browsing by Author "Omigbule, Morufu B."

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    Dramatizing Aborted Ritual: Postmodernist Imaginings in Wole Soyinka's Death and the Kings Horseman
    (UNISA, 2017) Mwaifuge, Eliah S.; Omigbule, Morufu B.
    Death and King’s Horseman showcases a condition of cultural rupture. Wole Soyinka’s manner of realizing this is through theoretical adventure that reveals his own very postmodernist imaginings, perhaps prior to the play’s composition but certainly at “the creative furor”. Recognizing and focusing on an overriding theoretical influence in a composite artistic production such as Death would significantly defuse the burden of interpreting Death which on its own constitutes a distinct unit in Soyinka’s repertoire of creative writings labelled as complex and obscure. The present study reveals the play’s robust discursive worth by identifying and exploring its postmodernist constitutive parameters. As the study further reinforces the claim that the playwright is cultural analyst of the avant-gardist category, the postmodernist figuration of the play deserves to be noted for all it entails and should inspire renewed criticism of the text, whose canonical status promises a prolonged regime in African and world literary studies.
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    Thematic Concerns of Contemporary Tanzanian Poetry in English
    (ISEL, 2016) Mwaifuge, Eliah S.; Omigbule, Morufu B.
    This paper explores the search for identity, displacement and belonging in Allen Sawaya’s Destined to Fame. The novel destined to fame depicts the world as a site of horror and interrogates the way the notions of identity, displacement and belonging affect an individual. In the novel, Sawaya emphasizes that the notions of identity, displacement and belonging are shaped by social and political situations which in turn result into emotional experiences or attachment to the affected individual. Through the protagonist William Forster- an African adopted child living in the UK, this paper argues that even though an individual can belong to the world but that individual can not belong home. This paper uses the postcolonial theory because the issues of identity, displacement or unhomliness and belonging are central topics in postcolonial thoughts.