The making of Nigerian poetry at Ibadan: 1980-1993

Abstract

This short paper interrogates the misrepresentation of the Ibadan tradition in Nigerian writing. Focusing on Robert Wren's work which is a dominant effort in the mapping of the Ibadan literary tradition, it recognises the continued relevance of the Ibadan tradition in the perpetuation of Nigerian poetry of English expression beyond the time-space that received critical opinion has assigned it in Nigerian literary history.