This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Munonye, Catherine Acholonu and Buchi Emecheta. North America: Africa World Press

This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments of childhood in the works of Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, Mongo Beti, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Zaynab Alkali, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Athol Fugard and Issac Mogotsi. North America: Africa World Press

This work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two decades in all of the genres. North America: Africa World Press

Cattle rustling. Guns. Murder. Kendra Williams has been the sole caretaker of her four younger siblings since their parents were killed in an alcohol-related airplane crash when she was only twenty years old. She has worked her entire adult life, sacrificing her dreams and her chance at love, to keep her family together and to keep their family cattle ranch safe for future generations. Someone doesn't want that to happen. Michelle Loving has made a successful career out of telling the American public what to think and what they should care about. She is hired to create an image of historical...

second Edition Release Sticks and stones... Candice Lincoln is waiting for her big break. Journalism, at least when it comes to war corresponding, is still a man's game. When she's handed a fluff story to cover a group of Native American dancers in the Midwest, the last thing she wants to do is drop everything and abandon her desk in the city. Hawk Manone is proud of himself and the people to which he was born. Sure, they have their problems from years of neglect, discrimination and overt hostility, but if they work together, he knows that his people can become proud again. That's why he...

Sticks and stones... Candice Lincoln is waiting for her big break. Journalism, at least when it comes to war corresponding, is still a man's game. When she's handed a fluff story to cover a group of Native American dancers in the Midwest, the last thing she wants to do is drop everything and abandon her desk in the city. Hawk Manone is proud of himself and the people to which he was born. Sure, they have their problems from years of neglect, discrimination and overt hostility, but if they work together, he knows that his people can become proud again. That's why he volunteers his time as part...

This volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction of Africa for non-African writers and the widespread and differing outside influences on African writers. This relationship raises complex problems such as which language to write in, and the representation or misrepresentation of the continent. Kole Omotoso gives a trans-Saharan view of Africa, Funso Aiyejina a West Indian perspective highlighting the work of George Lamming and Denis Williams, and Katherine Frank examines the relevance of feminist criticism to the African novel. Other contributors compare and contrast the works of...