Nigerian Literature and Current Realities: The Challenge of Illiteracy and E-Literacy

Authors

  • Vincent P.A. Obobolo

Keywords:

illiteracy, e-literacy, information, communi-cation, technology, literature, globalization

Abstract

Today s world is becoming more and more technology-driven and the speed of change in technology has become neck-breaking mind-breaking and intractable to many related fields Literature is one of such fields that have much to do with the information technology particularly in relation to language use and retrieval and utilization of information resources activities that require high or relatively high level of literacy This paper examines the issues of illiteracy and e-literacy as some of the challenges confronting the 21st century Nigerian literary writer critic and reader Hence it has three trajectories the Nigerian writer s use of information technology as a tool for propagating African literature the Nigerian critic s use of information technology as a tool for propagating the criticism of African literature and the Nigerian reader s use of information technology as a tool for accessing African literature The study looks at the response of the Nigerian literary scholar to the global requirement of e-literacy against the backdrops of poor reading culture and high rate of illiteracy in Nigeria

How to Cite

Vincent P.A. Obobolo. (2016). Nigerian Literature and Current Realities: The Challenge of Illiteracy and E-Literacy. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 16(G8), 23–29. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1916

Nigerian Literature and Current Realities: The Challenge of Illiteracy and E-Literacy

Published

2016-05-15