African Literature
African Literature
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Death and the King's Horseman
"Criticism" collects nine major essays on the play and the difficulties it presents to readers. Cont...Read more
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Aké: The Years of Childhood
A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, an...Read more
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The Interpreters
The Nobel Laureate's first novel spotlights a small circle of young Nigerian intellectuals living in...Read more
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodi...Read more
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The Lion and the Jewel
This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoru...Read more
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Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole So...Read more
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J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event
Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, bu...Read more
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Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber: Reflections of a Nobel Laureate, 1994-2001
In one of his regular columns in Al-Ahram Weekly, Naguib Mahfouz at the age of 89 wrote of his feeli...Read more
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As the Crow Flies
"Indeed I too would have loved to write one of those serene stories with a beginning and an end. As ...Read more
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Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration
The work of well-established scholars as well as of young researchers with fresh perspectives, Mau M...Read more
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The African Trilogy
Picador 1988, the famous African Trilogy by the recently late Chinua Achebe, 'the man whose writing ...Read more
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When Rain Clouds Gather
A poverty-stricken village in the heart of rural Botswana is a haven to the exiles gathered there. W...Read more