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Significance of Songs in Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War

This paper examines the significance of songs in selected Chinua Achebe’s short stories in the collection, Girls at War. In the paper, the selected stories “Vengeful Creditor,” “Chike’s School Days” and “The Voter” are analyzed qualitatively with a view to ascertaining their type, content, meaning and general significance in their contexts towards illustrating the themes of the stories. The sociological theory is adopted as the theoretical frame work to guide the analysis of the texts. The paper finds that Achebe deploys songs as therapy, satire and protest to drive home his points in his renditions.

keywords
Song
Girls at War
satire
protest
therapy
Name of Author(s)
Mamudu, Adekunle
Page Range
91-98
Year of Publication
2022
Month of Publication
May
Volume
1
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