Further novel approaches to the problems of race, concepts of heroism and African writer’s memory and reinvention of... More > linear time are all highlighted in this volume. It has been observed in spite of centuries of human clams to development and civilisation, that the cultural division between black and white has been fixed and naturalised often through majority societal representations. The unity of culture is also highlighted in the importance of sharing equally fruits of modern collective efforts. A palimpsestic or multidimensional notion of time and existence is replacing the linear time that is very much an arbitrary creation of humanity’s materialist consciousness. Yet the perception of unity in great variety broadens us. As we recognize common values, the plan of universal brotherhood, indeed, comes nearer and we begin to sense our own place in its realization. < Less

Further approaches to the problems of race, concepts of heroism and the African writer’s memory or reinvention of linear... More > time are all highlighted in this volume. It has been observed in spite of centuries of human clams to development and civilisation, that the cultural division between black and white has been fixed and naturalised often through majority societal representations. The unity of culture is also highlighted in the importance of sharing equally fruits of modern collective efforts. A palimpsestic or multidimensional notion of time and existence is replacing the linear time that is very much an arbitrary creation humanity’s civilising efforts. The perception of unity in great variety broadens us. As we recognize common values, the plan of universal brotherhood, indeed, comes nearer and we begin to sense our own place in its realization. < Less

Here is a chart of the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics, using the prose and dramatic fictions of Anglophone,... More > Lusophone and Francophone writers from Africa and the African Diaspora to embrace ten essays /reviews from South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon, Germany, Canada, the United States and the Netherlands in this fourth edition of African Literature [JAL]. The essays are placed in three phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns, oratorical strategies of narrative, and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. < Less

Gamji College is Chin Ce’s second published prose fiction dealing on the character of the new nation states of Africa... More > under the various civilian and military regimes that govern them in the twenty first century. The story moves from the rustic setting of the previous novel, Children of Koloko, to rest on the chaos and drift that permeate the life of modern college youths < Less

In this volume scholars have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its... More > manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. Thus this is an important contribution which integrates the oral traditions of African writing within new and relevant contemporary expressions through exploring the literary permutations of oral traditional performance in the works of African writers. < Less

In re-imagining the new literature and examining this expansive African heritage in spite of regional or national groupings,... More > this volume aims at substantiating the cultural uniformity of Africa, in terms of literary and cultural movements, and lending some inter-disciplinary insights on Africa’s prolific body of literature as a whole through the complex course of the twenty first century. < Less

This second volume of Critical Approaches is an exposition of the craft of Nigerian writer, theatre director, poet,... More > dramatist and editor of international repute, Onuora Ossie Enekwe. The professor of dramatic literature who spent thirty years developing and advancing the drama and graduate curriculum of the University of Nigeria Nsukka had, in addition, been editor of Okike: African Journal of New Writing (founded by Chinua Achebe) at the university where he was also director of the Institute of African Studies. < Less

The fifth edition of African Poetry tagged “Rhythms of Conflicts” comes with expectations of greater relevance in poetry... More > of the twenty-first century. Dedicated to Jack Mapanje, the distinguished Malawian poet and scholar whose verses had brought him incarceration by the notorious Kamuzu Banda regime, No. 5 hopes to challenge readers of African poetry with the truth of the aliveness of African art to the political and social concerns of the century. < Less

Chin Ce's oeuvres here under study include his well known fictions, Children of Koloko [2001], Gamji College [2002] and... More > poetry, An African Eclipse [1992]. The three have been subjects of critical commentaries on modern Nigerian (read African) experiments in nation-state building by few critics of African literature. Attempts have also been made to give Chin Ce’s other works, The Visitor [2004] (fiction) and Full Moon [2001] (poetry) as much critical attention here as his Millennial [2005] collection of poems. These papers taken as an overview reveal, as is the aim of this volume, the ideals, craft and vision of Chin Ce’s fictional preoccupation in recent times. < Less

This is an important contribution to Black and African writing with theoretical frameworks for propagating knowledge about... More > the African experience in modernity, its tensions at various political, social, economic and psychological levels of African communal and individual existence, and its possible remediation through an imaginative articulation of the greater unity and higher prospects in the hybridity and fusion that are embedded in the external and subjective realities of our world. < Less