Emmanuel Sule
Emmanuel Sule is a writer, literary critic and scholar, teaching African literature and creative writing in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. His books include THE AGATU CULTURE: SONGS AND DANCES ( a study of oral poetry), IMPOTENT HEAVENS (a collection of short stories), KNIFING TONGUES (a volume of poetry) and THE WRITINGS OF ZAYNAB ALKALI (co-authored with Umelo Ojinmah). His poems, essays and reviews of books have appeared in both local and international journals.
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Stingy Dad - A Short Story by Emmanuel Sule
- By Emmanuel Sule
- Published May 16, 2007
- Short Stories
- Unrated
Dad was criminally stingy. I didn't know how he happened to be so. But I knew mum had always stared at him, dusted up all the courage she had and sputtered harsh words on dad because he did one stingy thing or the other...
Beyond Social Commitment, Meaning and Audience: Towards the Soyinkanisation of Nigerian Literature
- By Emmanuel Sule
- Published May 4, 2007
- Essays
- Unrated
Whichever way we like or hate Soyinka's writings, we must recognise that the man has craft. To ignore this fact or give it a backhanded dismissal is to expose our ignorance of what real craft is...
Literary Language and Recent Nigerian Fiction
- By Emmanuel Sule
- Published November 29, 2005
- Essays
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The Nigerian literary scene still possesses a womb for begetting great fictionists of our time against the self-important stands of listserve-popular critics like Olu Oguibe that a great writer is not in sight in the third generation of Nigerian writers. Or against the my-generation-is-better-than-yours stands of Niyi Osundare, Femi Osofisan, Charles Nnolim and other actors of the other generations...
In Her Prime, The Male Monster: A Review Of Unoma Azuah's "Sky-High Flames"
- By Emmanuel Sule
- Published November 14, 2005
- Reviews
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Azuah's treatment of the African culture is interesting because, like Chimamanda Adichie, she regards her culture as too good and instrumental to be totally jettisoned. So, it is not the culture, but the greed of the people in the culture that brings infamy to the culture...