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CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 by Eldred Durosimi Jones and Marjorie Jones
CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 by Eldred Durosimi Jones and Marjorie Jones
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African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood.