Remi Akujobi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Remi Akujobi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Remi |
| FAMILY NAME | Akujobi |
| SIGNATURE | AKUJOBI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 Federal University, Lokoja, Nigeria [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetic Silence and Aesthetic Disruption in Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi
This paper discusses how Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi employs poetic silence and fragmented form to represent psychological trauma in postcolonial Kenya. The collection defies conventional lyric coherence, accentuating minimalism, ellipsis, and syntactic rupture to represent the fractured interiority of its speaker. The disjointed structure and sparse language of Gachagua’s work mirror the emotional disorientation and epistemic instability…
Waiting and the Legacy of Apartheid
With debates about the issues of liberation, centering, and empowerment dominating the African literary landscape, particularly in works written by women, it is not surprising to find that the issue of ‘waiting’ occupies centre stage in Njabulo Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003). Much, of course, has been written on this work, which focuses on the peculiar problems facing women in contemporary South Africa, but the object of this es…
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Waiting and the Legacy of Apartheid
With debates about the issues of liberation, centering, and empowerment dominating the African literary landscape, particularly in works written by women, it is not surprising to find that the issue of ‘waiting’ occupies centre stage in Njabulo Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003). Much, of course, has been written on this work, which focuses on the peculiar problems facing women in contemporary South Africa, but the object of this es…
Poetic Silence and Aesthetic Disruption in Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi
This paper discusses how Clifton Gachagua’s Madman at Kilifi employs poetic silence and fragmented form to represent psychological trauma in postcolonial Kenya. The collection defies conventional lyric coherence, accentuating minimalism, ellipsis, and syntactic rupture to represent the fractured interiority of its speaker. The disjointed structure and sparse language of Gachagua’s work mirror the emotional disorientation and epistemic instability…
Aesthetics (1 work) · African studies (1 work) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · Antecedent (behavioral psychology) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Deixis (1 work) · Empowerment (1 work) · Exposition (narrative) (1 work) · Foregrounding (1 work)