Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance. The post-independence states are supposed to be sovereign, but the levers of economic and political powers still reside in the donor states. Not in many fora is the complex reality that defines Africa more trenchantly articulated than in imaginative literature produced about and on the continent. This is the crux of the essays collected in African Literature and the Future. The book reflects on Africa's past and present, addressing anxieties about the future through the epistemological lens of literature. The contributors peep ahead from a backward glance. ...
This paper argues that Africans should view their literature as an autonomous entity separate from a...
As we come to the end of the twentieth century Africa remains a deeply contested intellectual and id...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...
The role of literature in imagining and building African identities, social roles, economic dynamics...
Africa’s demographical and economic growth is spectacular nowadays, as the continent is about to hos...
The papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in thei...
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African li...
The purpose of this study is an examination of modern Anglophone African literature of the post-Inde...
ABSTRACT The dilemma of postcolonial Africa, her writers and peoples is the problem of having to dev...
Does Africa have a future? What are the visions, hopes, ambitions and fears of young Africans for th...
With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on th...
African writers have an enduring propensity for social and political commitment. Their texts mostly ...
Social theory in, and social theorising about, Africa has largely ignored African literature. Yet, t...
This book explores the relationship between Africa, the West and China. It notes that while Africa i...
African writers have a deepening susceptibility for social and political commitment as their texts d...
This paper argues that Africans should view their literature as an autonomous entity separate from a...
As we come to the end of the twentieth century Africa remains a deeply contested intellectual and id...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...
The role of literature in imagining and building African identities, social roles, economic dynamics...
Africa’s demographical and economic growth is spectacular nowadays, as the continent is about to hos...
The papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in thei...
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African li...
The purpose of this study is an examination of modern Anglophone African literature of the post-Inde...
ABSTRACT The dilemma of postcolonial Africa, her writers and peoples is the problem of having to dev...
Does Africa have a future? What are the visions, hopes, ambitions and fears of young Africans for th...
With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on th...
African writers have an enduring propensity for social and political commitment. Their texts mostly ...
Social theory in, and social theorising about, Africa has largely ignored African literature. Yet, t...
This book explores the relationship between Africa, the West and China. It notes that while Africa i...
African writers have a deepening susceptibility for social and political commitment as their texts d...
This paper argues that Africans should view their literature as an autonomous entity separate from a...
As we come to the end of the twentieth century Africa remains a deeply contested intellectual and id...
The late South African author Lewis Nkosi described history as a hero in African literature in his c...