2022/05/25 by SIB, Sansan
#FOS: Languages and literature
paper · doi:10.48734/akofena.s8v.2.09.2022
Abstract: The aim of a committed art consists in denouncing in order to improve society. This view is said to guide African literature portrayed generally as a committed one. Therefore, as a committed writer, Anyidoho’s career as poet and scholar is committed to the welfare of his contemporaries and the African people in general. He has made a name as cultural activist and a committed artist involved in the total liberation of the Black / African people. Poetry provided Anyidoho indeed material to substantiate the general mourning occasioned by the darkness of “the suns of independences” as well as the process of the establishment of the Nation-State from its early days till now. In fact, the blinding euphoria of independence in which so much was expected with so little realized, brought about general protest to which Anyidoho offered himself has one of the most vigorous spokesman. This paper focus on the poet’s portrayal of the imagined African communities at the eve of independences with the building of the NationState.