"A solid examination of Lusophone African works from a critical, cultural-theoretical vantage point. The interviews with authors open windows of light while analysis is convincingly rooted through African eyes, particularly Yoruba eyes."
-Donald Burness, Franklin Pierce College

"The appearance of Niyi Afolabi's book is both timely and poignantly significant. Employing regeneration as a central trope, this study carries out a painstaking and scholarly theoretical analysis of the term itself, taking care to ground it in historical and cultural relevance. From this sensitive contextualization, the author proceeds to a detailed discussion of the works of Luis Bernardo Honwana, Manuel Rui, Mia Couto, and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, with a keen eye on the contents of their works and the rhetorical and stylistic strategies which enhance their merit. This is a major work enriched, no doubt, by Niyi Afolabi's proficiency in three European languages, and his grounding in Yoruba language and culture. It is an asset to scholars and general readers in African literature, literary criticism, cultural studies, and post-colonial discourse."
-Niyi Osundare, The University of New Orleans

"Golden Cage shows the huge gap in African scholarship caused by the neglect of Lusophone African in contemporary literary studies. This is a very strong contribution to Lusophone African studies, and to critical theory in Africa and the West. It is a book that no scholar of Africa would want to miss!"
-Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah, Western Illinois University

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Niyi Afolabi is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and African Diaspora studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, where he teaches African and Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures. He is co-editor of Seasons of Harvest: Essays on Literature in Lusophone Africa.

CATEGORY
Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies/AFRICA