Omotoso, K. (English spelling) OmotosoK

...The works of Okoto, who unearthed the traditional culture of the Acholi people and used it to ridicule the exhaustion of modern Western Europe, Achebe, who skillfully wove in Igbo folklore, Soyinka, who revived the rich mythological world of the Yoruba people in the modern era, and Ngugi, who reads anti-colonial spirit into the myths and folk songs of the Kikuyu people, are nothing but efforts to wash away the stigma of African culture and redefine ethnic traditions. The interest in film, theater, and ethnic languages ​​of Swahili writers such as Sambène, Ngugi, Soyinka, Ama, Kole Omotoso (1943-), and Ebrahim Hussein, also has the intention of overcoming the thinness of African readership by shifting the media. In the case of Ngugi, who turned to being an ethnic language writer after being detained and devoted himself to the peasant and worker theater movement, he not only changed the arena of anti-establishment struggle and gained new readers, but also opened the way for popular participation in literary creation and tried to graft this onto the ethnic traditions of the Kikuyu people.

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…アチョリ族の伝統文化を掘り起こし，そこから西欧近代の疲弊を揶揄（やゆ）するオコト，イボ族の伝承を巧緻に織り込むアチェベ，ヨルバ族の豊饒な神話的世界を現代に蘇生させるショインカ，キクユ族の神話，民族歌謡に反植民地の気概を読み取るグギらの仕事はアフリカ文化の汚辱を洗い，民族的伝統を再定義する努力にほかならない。またサンベーヌ，グギ，ショインカ，アーマ，オモトショKole Omotoso(1943‐　)，フセインEbrahim Husseinらスワヒリ語作家の映画，演劇，民族語への関心には，メディアの転換によってアフリカ人読者層の薄さを克服しようとの意図がある。政治的拘禁を契機に民族語作家に転身し，農民や労働者の演劇運動に専念するグギの場合，これによって反体制の闘いの場を転換し，新たな読者を獲得するだけでなく，文学創造に民衆参加の道を開き，これをキクユ族の民族伝統に接木しようとの意気が見られる。…

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