Politics, Propaganda, and Prostitution of Literature

Abstract

But when we would have had our say on corruption, injustice, and maladministration; when we would have dethroned foreign gods and re instated ours, when we would have finaUy put black Uterature on that rung of the literary ladder where we think it belongs, what next?The future of Nigerian literature is inseparable from the future of the world literature which in turn is inseparable from the future of man.So we may rephrase the question: where is man going?When computers and robots finally take over the world and man faces a long dreary winter of mental apathy and physical inertia, will the novel have any part to play to save man from death through the atrophy of his mental and physical powers?Let us hope so.