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This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations´ socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm.

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1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era 2. Criticism of African Art and Literature 3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics 4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer 5. Conclusion

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Abdul-Rasheed Na´Allah is Vice-Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Kwara State University, Nigeria. He is co-author of Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance (2005), and author of Africanity, Islamicity and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (2009), African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (2010), and Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World (2011).

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