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Foreword / Professor Oyeniyi Okunoye -- Introduction / Ayo Kehinde & Rotimi O. Fasan -- Section 1. Gender Identities, Globalization And Modern Slavery. Ambivalent Empowerment: Narrating Modern-day Slavery In Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street / Bode Afolayan And Ayo Kehinde -- Semiotics Of Transnational Inflections On Female African Bodies / Omolola A. Ladele -- Connected To The Past: Slavery As A Muse For Diaspora Literature / Olumide Osagbemi. -- Section 2. Nationhood, Trauma And Dystopia. Singing Songs Of Oḍámolúgbè ̣with Christ And Marx / Olusegun Adekoya -- Lexical Innovation As Resource For Resistance Identity In Songs Of Odamolugbe / Romanus Aboh -- Poetry As A Weapon For Social Reconstruction: The Example Of Ademola Dasylva's Songs Of Odamolugbe / Edward Oluwayomi -- Of War And Decadence: Ossie Enekwe's Poetry / Sule E. Egya -- Retrieving Society: Gbenga Adeboye And The Context Of Social Critique In Nigeria / Adeshina Afolayan. -- Section 3. Performance Context, Ritual And Media. The Adowa Dance As A Medium For Promoting The Cultural Heritage Of The Asante People / Lydia Mmadu -- Performance And Theatricality In The Ebibi Festival Of Epe In Lagos State / Adebua Babatunde Olanrewaju And Sotunsa Mobolanle Ebunoluwa -- Towards A Type Classification Of Eẉa-oṃa Festival Performances Of Nkporo, Southeastern Nigeria / Anya U. Egwu -- From The Groove To Cyberspace: Lagbaja And The Technologizing Of The Mask / Yeku Afis Tunde -- Oral Tradition And Yoruba Video Films / Fasan, Rotimi Omoyele -- African Museums/music, Literature And Memory For Culture Imagination And Social Transformation / Nelson O. Fashina. -- Section 4. Canonicity, Life Writing And Histories. Is Dasylva Among The Womanists? A Gender Reading Of Marvellous In Our Sight: A Biography Of Deaconess Ajibike Florence Alabi-ademuson / Yetunde Akorede And S.o. Dare -- Collective History And The Ethnography Of Nigerian Poetic-auto/biography / Ayodeji Isaac Shittu -- Poetic Travelogue In Remi Raji's