Peter Wuteh Vakunta

Unlike some of his unimaginative peers who collect African folklore in order to imprison it, thus delimiting its potential implacability to literary thought, Harold Scheub takes cognizance of the fact that the import of collection is to make possible interpretation, which expands on the possibili

INTRODUCTION

‘Au Cameroun de Paul Biya’ is Fanny Pigeaud’s autopsy of a malignant nation.

After publishing Africa Betrayed (1992) and Africa Unchained (2005), intellectual gadfly Professor George B. N.

Being black and being human is the leitmotif that runs through Aimé Césaire’s theatre.

Nelson Mandela’s ‘Conversations with Myself’ takes the reader through the meanders in the life of a man widely acclaimed as the world’s longest-serving political prisoner.

Obama as once-in-a lifetime phenomenon; Obama as symbol of success against racism; Obama as personification of nonpareil commitment to community and national service; Obama as conflation of dream and reality; Obama as trail-blazer; Obama as culmination of a historical process – the crystallisatio

Ben Kwakye’s latest novel, ‘The Other Crucifix’, is a captivating tale of double estrangement. Born and raised in Ghana by an indigent but affectionate family, Jojo Badu finds himself obligated to undertake a journey he describes as ‘the road not taken’ (p. 1) in pursuit of Western education.

‘Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir’ begins Ngugi’s narrative precisely where stories of epic heroes always begin – with the place, time, and circumstances of his birth: ‘I was born in 1938, under the shadow of war, the Second World War, to Thiong’o wa Nducu, my father , and Wanjiku wa N

Achebe’s latest publication, ’The Education of a British-Protected Child’, is a compendium of seventeen skilfully written non-fictional pieces in which he walks his readers down memory lane.