Five Nights with Omenka by Chukwuemeka Godswill

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Book Title: Five Nights with Omenka

Author: Chukwuemeka Godswill
Genre: A Novel (Literature)
Language: English
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      EXCERPTS FROM FIVE NIGHTS WITH OMENKA
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...The warriors gave up. 'Even the ants are against us,' they said. 'No one can defeat the dwarf. We have lost the war.' Then Obike asked for the guns. Obike, he spoke when all hopes were lost, when every Idumala warrior had given up. When the best among the warriors could not face the dwarf of Itimbene, he asked for the guns.

Ofo by Chukwuemeka Godswill

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Book Title: Ọfọ

Author: Chukwuemeka Godswill
Genre: A Play (Literature)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-978-493581-4
Publisher: Maxiprints
Place of Publication: Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.
Pages: 86

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A REVIEW OF ỌFỌ 

             By

Prof. Sunday N. Agwu,

Department of English,

Ebonyi State University, Nigeria

Date of Review: 31st December 2009
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A STUDY OF THE ORAL PERFORMANCE OF OKPOSI, OHAOZARA IN NIGERIA by Godswill Chukwuemeka

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THE CONCEPTUAL EQUIVALENCE OF LITERATURE IN INDIGENOUS AFRICAN SETTING DEVOID OF ANY CONTACT WITH THE WEST: A STUDY OF THE ORAL PERFORMANCE OF OKPOSI, OHAOZARA IN NIGERIA
                   By
Godswill Chukwuemeka

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INTRODUCTION: Is Oral Performance Literature?

            Jim Meyer, in his article, “What is Literature,” made a brilliant effort to present a definition of literature based on prototype. In his use of the prototype approach, he focuses on establishing the meaning of literature via characteristics that are peculiar to it:

I suggest, then, that prototypical literary work:

*are written texts

*are marked by careful use of language, including features such as creative metaphors, well-turned phrases, elegant syntax, rhyme, alliteration meter.

*are in a literary genre (poetry, prose fiction, or drama)

*are read aesthetically

*are intended by the author to be read aesthetically

Contain many implicatures (are deliberately somewhat open in interpretation)
(http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/linguistics/wp/1997meyer.htm)

I do not have problem with the above yardsticks he outlined for measuring what should be called literature. But the statement that follows, gives me a headache:

Meditation: The Silent Scream and Where Goes Each Fallen Petal by Chukwuemeka Godswill

 MEDITATION

THE SILENT SCREAM

Godswill Chukwuemeka 
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A scream too silent to be heard

But its echo draws the string

Of my heart to a breaking point.

A seed of lust and love,

An unfortunate guest to a happy duo.

His presence eclipsed their sun.

He was invited, though at a wrong time.

Cradled innocently in the ancient bowl of nature,

He plans to bring joy to his host.

But lo, she plans otherwise!

“He will expose me to the mocking eyes