Ernest N Emenyonu 
ALT 37 [PDF ebook] 
African Literature Today

AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing imaginative creativity and its criticism on the African continent and beyond.


Contemporary African creative writers have confidently taken strides which resonate all over the world. The daring diversities, stylistic innovations and enchanting audacities which characterize their works across many different genres resonate with readers beyond African geographic and linguistic boundaries. Writers in Africa and the diaspora seem to be speaking with collective and individual voices that compel world attention and admiration. And they arebeing read in numerous world languages.

This volume’s contributors recognize the foundations laid by the pioneer African writers as they point vigorously to contemporary writers who have moved African imaginative creativityforward with utmost integrity, and to the critics who continue to respond with unyielding tenacity.

The founding Editor of ALT, Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones, recalls in an interview in this volume, the role ALT played in the evolution and stimulation of a wave of African literary studies and criticism in mid-20th century: ‘The 1960s saw a good deal of activity among scholars teaching African Literature throughout Africa and the world, and this ledto a series of conferences in African Literature in Dakar, Nairobi, and Freetown.around the idea of communication between the various English Departments which took an interest in African Literature. We decided on a bulletin, which was just a kind of newsletter between departments saying what was going on….it was that bulletin that showed the potential of this kind of communication… after that we started
African Literature Today as a journal inviting articles on the works of African writers.’

Contributors to the series demonstrate the impact of the growth in studies and criticism of African Literature in the 50 years since its founding.


Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

Daftar Isi

Obituary: Keith Sambrook 1925-2019 – James Currey

Editorial Article: ‘Salute to Pioneers on Whose Shoulders We Stand’ – Ernest N. Emenyonu

Women Investigators Uncovering Transgression in Unity Dow’s Fiction – Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo

Evolutionary Portrayal of Credible Characters in Chinua Achebe’s Fiction – Kalapi Sen

The Concept, Challenges & Consequences of
UKHULE, in Sindiwe Magona’s
Beauty’s Gift – Iniobong I. Uko

Chimalum Nwankwo & the Poetry of the Aerial Zone – Maik Nwosu

From Grace Ogot to Yvonne Owuor: Fifty Years of Depicting Kenyan Lands & Landscapes – Ng’ang’a Wahu-Muchiri

The Writer & the Environment in Times of Crises: The Creative Talent in the Face of
Boko Haram – Razinat Talatu Mohammed

Women & ALT: Balancing the Gender Equation in the Criticism of African Literature – Akachi Ezeigbo

Anthroliterary Discovery of a Novel Form in Nigeria:
Itan Igbesi-Aye Emi Segilola Emi Eleyinju Ege & the Re-Reading of Print Culture, Events & Images in the First Nigerian Novel – John Uwa

Gynocritical Impulses in the Novels & Short Stories of Ifeoma Okoye – Macpherson Nkem. Azuike

Adaptation & the Theme of Passage of Time in Selected Plays of Wole Soyinka & Ola Rotimi – Norbert Oyibo Eze

Contextualizing Chinua Achebe’s Revolutionary Impulses – Psalms E. Chinaka

Mohamed-Alioum Fantouré’s
Le récit du cirque…de la Vallée des Morts: The Limitations of Stylistic Innovations – Unionmwan Edebiri

Fifty Years On: A Conversation with PROF. ELDRED JONES, Founding Editor,
African Literature Today – Pede Hollist

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

‘Placate the Lords of Darkness’ (Poem) – Anya Ude Egwu

‘The Invitation’ (& 5 other Poems) – Hodabalou Anate

‘Moribund’ (Poem) – Chinasa Abonyi

‘Kaput to be a Cat’/’Kaput to be a Rat’ (2 Poems) – Alexander Opicho

‘Cactus’ (Poem) – Onyeukwu Ifunanya

‘Guilt’ (Short story) – Chioma Toni-Duruaku

REVIEWS Edited by Obi Nwakanma

Tentang Penulis

Razinat T. Mohammed is Professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Abuja. The award-winning author of A Love Like a Woman’s and other Stories (2006), her publications also include Intra-gender Relations between Women: A Study of Nawal El-Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta’s Novel (2012).