“Nigeria is Bus is Stage”: The Bus as Metaphor in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
This essay takes as its central argument that the bus can be viewed as a metaphor for the nation in Ben Okri’s “Stars of the New Curfew” and Karen King-Aribisala’s Kicking Tongues. It unveils the numerous lexical and narrative correspondences between the realms of politics and public transport conta...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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