Literature

Why Leo Tolstoy hated William Shakespeare Many famous writers have vocalized their dislike for Shakespeare, but none did so quite as fervently as Leo Tolstoy.  According to him, the talentless playwright is only...

A Comparison of two child heroes in the novels of Ngugi and Oyono by LN Nwokora Full Scholarly Essay Available at ABC IN his work on Chinua Achebe's novels, entitled ‘Chinua Achebe and the Tragedy of History1,' Thomas Melone says that the...

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...

Edited by Smith and Ce, the volume strives to illuminate the remarkable evolution of national literatures well beyond the history of conquest, domination and instability of the regions. Imagining Africa in Western Narratives Coming first in the African Library of Critical...

The special author critical supplementary journal project of the International Research Council on African Literature and Culture IRCALC has been compiled and professionally edited to provide a solid footing for higher academic reading on contemporary African fiction and poetry. Special...

The African Literary Journals have changed the face of literary criticism with bold integration of indigenous theories to spite the cultural myopia of Western nations. Twinpacks of African Literary Journals offer indigenous critical theories The African Literary Journals are here with...

Courtesy, the International Research Council on African Literature and Culture, IRCALC, the journals of new poetry mark the dawn of independent scholar criticism of poetry culture  in Africa. Review and buy the current Journals of African Poetry Courtesy, the International Research...

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...

The First (Igbo) Coup d'etat in Nigeria--A. M. Mainasara's The Five Majors - Why They Struck is Mere Ethnic Propaganda --Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy Ad I read Adewale Ademoyega's Why We Struck a long time before now and found it an interesting...