Orature In Modern African Literature Using: Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification Of Area Boy

ABSTRACT The contemporary African Literature is believed to be a revolutionary literature that looks critical  into contemporary social situations with a view of amending the wrongs therein.  However, no writer writes in a vacuum but within  the scope of human experiences, happening around him,  and particularly the  experiences he met on ground in his society.  This is the Orature of  his society. The tool adopted  for this research was the sociological theory,  this is because it encompasses the way of life and experiences of people in a given society.  The  research made use of the stratifi…