Introduction to Nigerian Literature free textbook

Study Units

There are 15 study units in this course as follows:

Module I : Introduction to Traditional Oral Literature

Unit 1 – Traditional Oral Narrative Forms: Myths, Legends, Folktales and Fables

Unit 2 – Traditional Oral Narrative Forms: Act of Speech

Unit 3 – Introduction to Traditional Poetry

Unit 4 – The Performance Traditions: Festival, Rituals, Masquerades, Social/Travel

Performance

Unit 5 – Oral History as a Source of Nigerian Literature

Module II: Colonialism and the Development of Nigerian literature

Unit 1 – Colonialism in Nigeria

Unit 2 – Representation of Africa in the Colonialist Literature: The Writing of Joyce Cary, Joseph Conrad, Sir H. Rider Haggard.

Unit 3 – The Rise of Modern Nigerian Poetry and Prose

Unit 4 –Early Nigerian Novelists: Oluadah Equiano, D. O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola,

Cyprain Ekwensi and Chinua Achebe

Unit 5 – Pioneer Nigerian Poets- Dennis Osadebey, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and Gabriel Okara.

Module III: The Development of Nigerian Drama

Unit 1 –The Development of Drama: From Alarinjo Itinerant Theatre to the European Concert Tradition

Unit 2 - The Popular Traveling Theatre Movement: Hubert Ogunde, Duro Ladipo, Kola Ogunmola, Moses Olaiya.

Unit 3 – Nigerian Drama I: Onitsha Market Literature and Ene Henshaw

Unit 4 – Nigerian Drama II: First Generation Playwrights

Unit 5 – Revolutionary Aesthetics in Nigerian Drama: Femi Osofisan, Bode Sowande, and Tess Onwueme