Selected papers presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association, Apr. 8-11, 1981, the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, Calif Contents The evolution of Assia Djébar's feminist ...

NEW YORK - The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words,” thinks the colonial district ...

Remapping African Literature is simply a work of literary critical re-evaluation based on the use of archival material, a methodology influenced in the main by established processes and procedures of ...

This revised edition of a valuable anthology includes nine new selections by some of Africa's finest young and established writers, offering a fresh examination of the contradictions of colonialism, ...

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely known as the father of modern African literature, has died aged 82 after a brief illness, his family said yesterday. Best known internationally for his novel ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, "Things Fall Apart", ...

Cornell’s Institute for African Development will host a literary panel on Friday Dec. 2, in its first formal collaboration with the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. During this ...

Remapping African Literature is simply a work of literary critical re-evaluation based on the use of archival material, a methodology influenced in the main by established processes and procedures of ...