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Styles and Nigerian Socio-Political Challenges in Selected Poems of Niyi Osundare

Oluwafemi Bolanle Jolaoso, Saheed Olalekan Olayiwola

Linguistic Exploration · 37-54 · 10.55121/le.v3i2.102447

This study presented a stylistic analysis of Niyi Osundare’s A Villager’s Protest to investigate the social-political challenges facing Nigeria. Through a close examination of the poem’s linguistic, literary and thematic features, the paper accounts for how the poet critiques the country’s hollow political promises, corruption a