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Tributes, Censors, and Exorcism in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Heart Songs



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Reuben Kehinde Akano

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.03.005

Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria

Poetry remains a medium with which writers critically capture happenings around them. Most African poets have churned out many works in this respect with greater impact on their environment, shedding light on the aftermath of independence and the discordant tunes of building nations across the continent. It must be pointed out that while there are more of male poets, only a few females have contributed to the growing poetic works in terms of written poetry in foreign languages such as English or French. One of these females is Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as the study focuses on her Heart Songs. A pertinent question to be asked is how valuable Heart Songs is. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Heart Songs is imbued with an avalanche of issues centering on social doldrums and martyrdom that define our identity and existence as a people and the world at large. In x-raying her work, postcolonial theory has been adopted as a guiding tool of interpretation and content analysis of the selected poems. The finding of the paper is that Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s poetry captures so much within a little space, and it is no less functional as a genre in the restoration of hope for the target people. The paper recommends that the vision inherent in the collection be given an in-depth reading for a wider application to understanding the evasive and challenging good governance in Africa as a continent. 

 songs, social doldrums, martyrdom, exorcism, restoration