Armstrong evaluates Nigerian literature
There is an overriding aesthetic in West Africa today equal to romanticism in Europe in the eighteenth century, said Robert P. Armstrong, director of the Northwestern University Press, in a lecture at Watson Library yesterday.
In his discussion "The Ancestor and the District Officer: Remarks on Contemporary Nigerian Literature," Armstrong, anthropologist, author and specialist on African art and literature, went through a rapid consideration of literary metaphysics, cultural values, aesthetics, the dialectic between the traditional and the modern, and epistemology.
"WHEN I ASSERT the existence of a Nigerian literature, I am not limiting it to writing in English. Works exist in Hausa, in Yoruba, in Ibo languages. They all constitute portions of the body of Nigerian literature," Armstrong said.
"Didacticism is not unknown to other traditions of world literature, but it is remarkable, it is characteristic of the Nigerian novel, particularly when one recalls that the novel is an imported form, practiced by writers who are familiar with the novel in Europe and America.
In the group of those who are most forthrightly didactic are to be found Aluko, in both "One Man, One Machet," and his earlier novel, "One Man, One Wife"; Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigeria's most prolific novelist, whose best known works are "People of the City," "Jagua Nana," and "Beautiful Feathers"; and Onuora Nzekuw, who has written "Wand of Noble Wood" and "Blade Among the Boys."
Anti-Viet group to travel to K.C.
Members of the KU Committee to end the War in Viet Nam will travel into Kansas City Saturday to support the weekly demonstration held by the Kansas City Area Committee, which is demonstrating every week "until the war is ended."
The meeting in the Kansas Union yesterday also discussed plans to decorate a display case next week in the Union and to set up a table to distribute literature about the war. The case will be displayed Monday through Friday and the table will be manned Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
This activity coincides with the Student Peace Union anti-war activities next week and its picket of the Chancellor's ROTC Review May 20.
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Psychology Colloquium, 4 p.m. Edg
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Auack.
Carillon Recital, 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Classical Film, 7 p.m. "Ballad of a Soldier." Dyche Aud.
Senior Recital, 8 p.m. Cheryl White,
pianist. Swarthout Recital Hall.
TOMORROW
Protestant Worship, 7 a.m. Wesley Foundation Methodist Center.
Ph.D. Exam, 8 a.m. Ammel E. Wujek, major in Botany, 434 Snow.
Ph.D. Exam, 9 a.m. Ammel E. Wujek, major in Botany, 434 Snow.
Ph.D. Exam, 10:30 a.m. Dennis Denning, major in Speech and Drama, 300 Murphy.
KU-Y Model U.N. Steering Committee, 3:30 to 8 p.m. Interviews for committee and subcommittee posts. Alcove C. Union.
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IN CONCLUSION Armstrong said, "Despite the fact that we read African works in English, to what extent can we really know them in their true presence? Above all, we should see enough here to give us humility and to cause us to avoid rushing in with rash and probably untenable judgments of "good" and "bad."
Lutheran Worship, 4:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"The Blind Mouth," Murphy Hall.
KU SDS. 7:30 p.m. Union. Residential Theatre.
Results of the English Proficiency Examination, which was given March 3, should be available for release in next Tuesday's Kansan, said James E. Seaver, director of
English Pro out, Tuesday
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Owl Society
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe became an honorary member of the Owl Society at their dinner and initiation last night.
the Western Civilization Program. Seaver said all papers had been graded and the last of them were returned to him yesterday. They were sent to the statistics service today, and Seaver said he thought they would be ready for release next Tuesday.
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