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EARLY NIGERIAN LITERAY AROMA

    1 Author(s):  DR.KAKASAHEB D.DHAYGUDE

Vol -  9, Issue- 9 ,         Page(s) : 234 - 237  (2018 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Literature mirrors the true, imaginary and ideal picture of its parent society. The third world literature or the postcolonial writings shed light on the plights as well as happy moments of its people. Nigerian literature is also not an exception to this fact, it is the body of writing by the Nigerian pre-colonial as well as postcolonial writers. Nigerian literature is divided mostly in national and foreign languages; Hausa, Yoruba, European and Igbo languages are mostly used by the pre-colonial, indigenous writers during and after the end of colonial period. English became the major medium of literary expression. The present paper presents the literary roots of the present Nigerian writing in the early and primitive works.

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