Esiaba Irobi’s Legacy: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance
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READING EFO KODJO MAWUGBE'S IN THE CHEST OF A WOMAN AND ESIABA IROBI'S CEMETERY ROAD AS SUBVERSIVE TEXTS
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Chaos in the Ivory Tower: Postcolonial Representations of the Nigerian Academic Elite in Esiaba Irobi's Cemetery Road and Ojo Rasaki Bakare's Once Upon a Tower
Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses ISSN: | e-ISSN: X Special Issue: English Literary Studies Today: From Theory to Activism No. 33, , pages Chaos in the Ivory Tower: Postcolonial Representations of the Nigerian Academic Elite in Esiaba Irobi’s Cemetery Road and Ojo Rasaki Bakare’s Once Upon a Tower Nurudeen ADESHINA LAWAL Author: Nurudeen Adeshina Lawal Osun State University, Ikire Campus, Nigeria @ Date of reception: 24/07/ Date of acceptance: 19/10/ Citation: Lawal, Nurudeen A. “Chaos in the Ivory Tower: Postcolonial Representations of the Nigerian Academic Elite in Esiaba Irobi’s Cemetery Road and Ojo Rasaki Bakare’s Once Upon a Tower.” Alicante Journal of English Studies, no. 33 (): Licence: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY ). © Nurudeen Adeshina Lawal Abstract This work explores Esiaba Irobi’s Cemetery Road () and Ojo Rasaki Bakare’s Once Upon a Tower () with a view to examining the manner in which Irobi and Bak
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