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Teacher, polyglot, seasoned literary scholar and polemicist, Professor Benedict Mobayode Ibitokun retired from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife after an eventful career spanning almost forty years. During this period, Professor Ibitokun had successful and robust teaching and research activities in several Universities within and outside Nigeria. To celebrate this scholar par excellence, whose prodigious scholarship and erudition remain peerless, a resource book of essays is proposed in his honour. Professor Ibitokun straddles the disciplines of African literature, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Dramatic Literature, Oral Literature, French Literature, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, etc. Contributions are invited from experts working in areas that are related to existentialism and the human condition. Contributors may focus on, but are not limited to the following areas:
Literary theory
African literature
French Literary Studies
Comparative Literature
Issues in Existentialism
Literature, Philosophy and Politics
Cultural Studies
Theatre/Dramatic Criticism
Soyinka Studies
Yoruba Metaphysics
Oral Literature
Ideology and Politics
Popular Culture
Politics of Feminist Discourse
Politics of Survival
Poetics of Existence
Language and Literature
Papers should not exceed twenty pages (20 pages), typed in Times New Roman (12). Paper Title, Authors name, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address (es) should be on a separate page. Deadline for receipt of papers is April 30, 2012. Papers are to be sent to the contacts below:
Chijioke Uwasomba cjsomba@yahoo.co.uk
Adebayo Mosobalaje: whoarethose@hotmail.com
Oluwole Coker: wole4u@gmail.com
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