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Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of, say Lakota Sioux in North America or the Mendes in…

The Orange Sun, Bioethics and Praxis of Systemic Annihilation in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow ABSTRACT From the quasi-oral form, African Literature has cascaded through systemic phases in less than two hundred years of contact with the Western written form. It has migrated from that dark romance portrayed by western writers to contemporariness of self-reappraisal. The primary inclination of these texts has been the ultimate question. What have we achieved with our independence? The unsavoury…