African Literature

From the African Library of Critical Writing It has been argued that traditional literature in Africa, often called orature, has served as an instrument for examination of individual experience in relation to the normative order of society. It was used, and...

Interrogating African Literature from Post Colonial Identities by the African Library of Critical Writing Post Colonial Identities is a collage of works which revisit the emergence of divergent regional and national groupings in African Literature along history and contact with the...

TIME passes ever so swiftly. But works of great men remind us we can live a life sublime, and departing leave behind us footsteps in the sands of time - as said the grand Longfellow of English poetry. Ah, yes...

The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example, which are the hallmarks of true leadership. (Achebe) Literature, leadership, citizenship issues of modern Nigeria by Chin Ce, 2005 Writer...

Two Africas in One Joe Ushie, 2008 Writer of the Year  Writer of the Year, JAL, No. 5 2008. IN Africa, whether in orate pre-colonial period or after, literature has never been a phenomenon detachable from the material realities of the...

With the coming to the internet of the African Literary Journals in earlier 2000 enthusiastic researchers were availed for the first time with online transmission of some of Africa's thriving body of literary work. A Reading Overview  of the Journals...