LANGUAGE USE AND STYLE, AS A DEPICTION OF AFRICAN LITERATURE: AN EXAMPLE OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN.

ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 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