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Title:Hausa Poetry on the Nigerian Civil War
Author:Furniss, Graham L.ISNI
Year:1991
Periodical:African Languages and Cultures
Volume:4
Issue:1
Pages:21-28
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
Northern Nigeria
Subjects:Hausa
civil wars
oral poetry
poetry
Nigerian-Biafran War
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1771678
Abstract:During the civil war years (1967-1970) in Nigeria, a considerable body of material in verse was produced in Hausa, much of it the result of a 1968 poetry competition asking for poems in praise of the Federal forces. The author shows how this war poetry exploits the three major categories of Hausa oral and written verse, namely, praise, vilification and narrative. The war poems of praise are interesting in that they praise not only the great men of the society but also the ordinary soldiers. The poems of vilification, again highly personalized, focus for the most part on Ojukwu, the Biafran leader. The narrative poetry gives an account of events preceding the war and the sequence of events during the war itself. Bibliogr., notes.
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