Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry

Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah is Vice-Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Kwara State University, Nigeria. He is co-author of Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance (2005), and author of Africanity, Islamicity and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (2009), African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (2010), and Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World (2011).

• 1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era.- 2. Criticism of African Art and Literature.- 3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics.- 4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer.- 5. Conclusion.