Language Use And Style, As A Depiction Of African Literature: An Example Of Wole Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman.

The continued domination of English language in the African world especially in the literary field has caused various doubts on what could be termed the African literature. Therefore, purpose of this research is to identify, how African writers have used language and style of writing to depict their continental identity in works of art. Researches have established that the some parts of Africa had their literatures (either oral and or written) long before some parts of Europe. Therefore, the advent of English language is not the genesis of literature in Africa. The research, having examined this paramount discourse from Wole Soyinka’ s

Death and the King’s Horseman, has concluded that language use and style are still significant beacons of African Literature.

Title Page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of Content

Chapter One

Introduction

Background to the Study

Background of the Author

Purpose of Study

Justification

Scope and Delimitation

Methodology

Chapter Two

Dialectal Discourses as Literary Archetypes

African Literature and its Peculiar Language

Review on Wole Soyinka and Death and the King’s Horseman

Chapter Three

Language Use and Style: A Depiction of African Literature

Standard English and its Satirical Use in Wole Soyinka’s

Pidgin English and its African Relativity

African English: The Language of African Literature

Yoruba Language in Translation

Use of Proverbs

Riddles

Folktales

Characterization

Styles of African Literature:

The Implantation of Cultural Icons and Tradition

Drums and Music

Ritual

Chapter Four

Summary

Conclusion

Bibliography