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The novel as an oral narrative performance: the delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Matigari Ma Nijrūūngi -- Abiku in Ben Okri's imagination of nationhood: a metaphorical interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial politics -- Refracting the political: Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About this Place -- Ayi Kwei Armah's The Revolutionaries: exoteric fiction, the common people & social change in Post-Colonial Africa - a critical review -- In quest of social justice: politics & women's participation in Irene Isoken Salami's More Than Dancing -- Breaking the laws in J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus - philosophy & the notion of justice -- The rhetoric & caricature of social justice in Post-1960 Africa: a logical positivist reading of Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Matigari -- "Manhood" in Isidore Okpewho's The Last Duty: authenticity or accountability? -- Remembering Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935-21 September 2013) -- Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect -- Kofi Awonor: Poem for a Mentor & Friend -- Looking death in the eye: the human condition, morbidity & mortality in Kofi Awoonor's poetry -- Eulogy for an artist, a statesman, a teacher & friend: Kofi Awoonor -- Postcolonial trauma & the poetics of remembering the novels of Kofi Awoonor -- Song for Nyidevu

Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies. Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African literature had attained maturity by the evolution of diverse concerns among scholars, critics, and researchers over the decades following the publication, in the English language, of Chinua Things Fall Apart in 1958. Since the publication of the first volume of African Literature Today in the 1970s, the writings of Africans across the continent have spread across the globe, constituting refreshing and hitherto unimaginable epistemologies. This 40th volume provides a serious critical response to those changing horizons and reflects African literature's maturity, diversity, scope, spread, and above all, relevance. The topics discussed range from sickle cell disease to the animalization of humans, new feminisms and stereotypes of womanhood, the different shades of black masculinity, and political exploitation in creative works. Reaching across boundaries, recent fictions are seen to suggest a widening of conventional literary genres, and new forms that change the known trajectories of dramatic theatre. The substance, freshness, and vitality that characterize the articles in this volume of African Literature Today bring a welcome perspective to the continent's rich creative life.

The era of independence for black Africa began with Ghana's independence from GB in 1957. Today, fifty-one African countries are independent, with all but one under majority rule. However, in the past three decades, many governments have risen & fallen, national economies have collapsed, & famine & hunger have turned Africa into the beggar-child of the world. Political instability has become the only stable feature of contemporary African political history. Much of this is due to the heritage of colonialism. What African nations need now is what politicians seem incapable of offering -- good leadership. After examining the African predicament, & analyzing the patterns of political leadership, it is suggested that African Us, acting as a Fifth Estate, could encourage evolution of responsible & effective leadership. To do so, they must first undergo an organic transformation to become truly African in outlook, philosophy, & content. Relevent academic programs would be restructured to incorporate national philosophies & ethical values that guide social action & behavior. Modified AA

The Nigerian civil war is now history. The Republic of Biafra lives in the pages of books, pamphlets, and newspapers. In that form, it is no threat to the people of Nigeria who, in a solemn oath of allegiance in January 1970, pledged to consign Biafra into oblivion and face the task of reconstruction and reconciliation. Biafra is now an issue only for historians who are plagued with the search for an answer to "what might have happened if…" But the war itself has left deep scars not only upon the lives of the survivors, but also on their beliefs and attitudes towards life. Unless he visits the right places in Nigeria, the visitor today may hear nothing and possibly see nothing to remind him of the war.