This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945–1962), namely Kateb Yacine...
Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões...
The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, is one of the most important African writers today. The central question that this book investigates is the...
Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and...
In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as Teacher", declared that the "African past - with all its imperfections - was not one...
African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story. Always the least studied in African literature...
For more than fifty years a dynamic modern literature has been developing in the Kiswahili language. The political weight that Kiswahili carries as...
This special issue of African Literature Today is devoted to some of the pioneer voices of African fiction in the twentieth century: Bessie Head...
This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa...