Syl Cheney-Coker is generally regarded as Sierra Leone’s leading writer. Indeed, he is one of the most accomplished and challenging writers to have emerged from Africa in recent years and his works have deservedly won several literary awards. A versatile artist who excels in both poetry a..

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This long-awaited anthology covers new thoughts and theories on the eminent and controversial writer, Bessie Head. Ever since her death in 1986, at the early age of forty-nine, Head has continued to capture our political, historical, and social imagination. This anthology contains current resea..

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Like good literature, Bâ's writings constitute social texts that renew themselves with each younger generation, each different society, and each new awareness because they are constantly interrogated, subverted, and primed with new meanings. Like the proverbial phoenix, therefore, Mariama..

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For Aminata Sow Fall, writing is subversive because it poses questions that need answers. So, for her, the writer’s role is not to moralize, but rather to raise questions to which readers may react. For this reason, characterization is very important and the readers must investigate chara..

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Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own brings together for the first time a collection of essays in English about the novels of this contemporary Caribbean literary and cultural figure. The editors’ critical introduction situates Condé’s work within la..

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Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century is widely regarded as Africa’s best novelist to date, and one of the world’s greatest. His narrative style and techniques have given rise to what has been characterized as the African art of the novel. It consists of ingenious indigenization an..

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Chinua Achebe’s influence on contemporary African Literature is as much evident in his art of the novel, as his articulation of African poetics and aesthetics in his extra fictional pronouncements. He is as much the father of the modern African novel, as he is the pioneer theoretician of Africa..

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This is the first critical anthology on the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah is one of Africa’s most multilingual and multiliterate writers. In exile from his country since 1974, he has wandered through the world’s cultures, l..

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This book explores the emergence of the award-winning Niyi Osundare, a modern Nigerian poet. It examines how Osundare started in Ikere-Ekiti as a “farmer-born, peasant-bred” oral singer to becoming one of the world’s most celebrated African poets. Osundare has won the Association of Nigerian Au..

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This book provides debates and representations of society to be found in the works of Akínwùmi Ìsòlá, one of the leading contemporary writers in African-language. His numerous creative works have received national and international attention, and many of them ..

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