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Akachi Ezeigbo
*Male Authority, Female Alterity: Representations of Womanhood in Ezeigbo’s Children of the Eagle

 

Ama Ata Aidoo
*Three (Neo)colonial Male Characters of Ama Ata Aidoo

*Cultural Translation in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost
 

Aminatta Forna . Donato Ndongo

*African spaces in European places: Aminatta Forna’s *Ancestor Stones and Donato Ndongo’s Shadows of Your Black Memory

 

Aminata Sow Fall
*African Mythic Context and Postmodern Philosophy in Aminata Sow Fall's Le Jujubier du patriarche

 

Angolan Writing
*Writers of Angola Crying in the Desert: António Joaquim de Miranda, Pedro da Paixão Franco and António de Assis Júnior

 

August Wilson

“Genealogies of the Spirit”: Ancestral Reclamation in the Dramas of August Wilson

 

Ayi Kwei Armah

*Provincialising Old Centres and Remaking the African Myth

*Nationhood and Otherness in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

 

Ben Okri

Memory and Palimpsestic Time in Ben Okri’s Famished Road

 

Bessie Head . Yvonne Vera.   Neshani Andreas

*Shades of Utter(ing) Silences in The Purple Violet of Oshaantu, Maru, and Under the Tongue

 

Bessora

*Poetics of Diaspora: “La ca't,” Surrealism, and Métissage in Bessora's 53 cm
*Representing “les multitudes”: Resisting Normative Definitions of Gender and Sexuality in Bessora's Deux bébés et l'addition (Two Babies and the Bill)

 

Biyi Bandele-Thomas . Chin Ce . Phaswane Mpe
*Oral Collage and Multidimensional Perspectives in the novels of Chin Ce, Phaswane Mpe and Biyi-Bandele Thomas

 

Buchi Emecheta
*Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra: Feminist (Re-) Writing of the Nigerian Civil War

Buchi Emecheta . Nadine Gordimer . Yvonne Vera
*Remembering the Past: Conflict and War in Nadine *Gordimer's None to Accompany Me, Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins and Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra

 

Camara Laye . Chin Ce
*Orature and Oratorical Teaching Strategies in African Literature: The Examples of Laye Camara and Chin Ce

 

Cheikh Hamidou Kane
*Colonisation and African Modernity in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure

 

Chin Ce
*Memory, Transition and Dialogue: The Cyclic Order of Chin Ce’s Oeuvres
*'Closer to Wordsworth': Nature and Pain in Chin Ce's Full Moon
poems
*Violence and Oral Metaphors in Chin Ce’s Gamji College

Chinua Achebe
*Post-Colonial Literatures and the Ongoing Process of 'Writing Back’
*Creating Identity out of the Postcolonial Void
*Tradition and Modernity: Gender Crisis in Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah
*Aesthetic Transfer in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
*Indigenous Legal Regimes in Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God
*Crisis of Identity in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

 

Edward Brathwaite
*The Arrivants and the Trope of Cultural Foetal Searching



Fela Anikulapo Kuti
*The Revolutionary Lyrics of Fela Anikulapo Kuti

 

Femi Osofisan
*Antigone as Revolutionary Muse. Fémi Òsófisan's
Tègònni: an African Antigone

*Femi Osofisan’s Protreptic

 

Ferdinand Oyono . Ngugi wa Thiong'o
*The Child hero: A Comparative Study of Ngugi's Weep not, child and Oyono's Houseboy

 

Festus Iyayi

*Fiction as Praxis: Exploring Iyayi’s Marxist Aesthetics

 

Fred D’Aguiar

British Racial Problems and the Poetry of Fred D’Aguiar

 

Flora Nwapa  .  Buchi Emecheta

*Igbo Cultural Representations in Female Fictional Contexts: Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta

 

JM Coetzee  
*Moderated Bliss’: Coetzee's Disgrace as Existential Maturation
*Post-Colonial Literatures as Counter-Discourse: J.M. Coetzee's Foe
and the Reworking of the Canon

 Khalid Ibrahim 'Uways
*Representing Conflict, Imagining Consensus: Race, Gender and Nation in Khalid Ibrahim 'Uways's Dance under the Rain

 

JN Nkengasong .
*Memory and Trauma in John Nkemngong Nkengasong's Across the Mongolo

 

Joe Ushie . Ademola Dasylva
*Socio-Linguistic Innovation in Modern Poetry

 

LeAnne Howe . Chin Ce
*Bi-living, Time and Space: LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker and Chin Ce’s The Visitor

 

Lucy Dlamini . Sembene Ousmane
*The Feminist Impulse of Lucy Dlamini (The Amaryllis) and Sembene Ousmane (God’s bits of Wood)

 

Meja Mwangi
*A Handcuff to History: Reconstruction of Mau-Mau Uprising in Meja Mwangi's Carcase For Hounds 

 

Mia Couto  
*Mia Couto and the Holistic Choric Self: Recreating the Broken Cosmic Order (Or: Relearning the Song that Truly Speaks…)

 

Miriam Makeba
*The Miriam Makeba Story

 

Mongo Beti .  VS Naipaul .
*Failed Heroes and Failed Memories: Between the alternatives of V.S. Naipaul’s Biswas and Mongo Beti’s Medza

 

New Kenyan Writers

*The Narratives of Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Owuor

 

Nadine Gordimer

*Can the Subaltern Speak? Language and the Crisis of Identity in Nadine Gordimer’s  July’s People

 

Nadine Gordimer . Yvonne Vera . Buchi Emecheta

Remembering the Past: Conflict and War in Nadine Gordimer's None to Accompany Me, Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins and Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra

 

Naguib Mahfouz

*“Imperfect Sympathy”: Naguib Mahfouz and the Portrait of the Nubian

 

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

*Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics

 

Niyi Osundare

*Song of the Season: Osundare's Lamentation for the Dead and Living

 

Niyi Osundare . Ademola Dasylva

*History, Memory and Tradition in African Poetry

 

Nurrudin Farah
*Dis-location of the Self and Definition of the Other in Nurrudin Farah's Maps

Odia Ofeimun
*Revolutionary Strategies: The Poetry Of Odia Ofeimun

 

Ola Rotimi . Femi Osofisan
*Femi Osofisan’s The Chattering and The Song and Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of The Living Dead

 

Ola Rotimi

Gender Issues in Ola Rotimi’s Drama

 

Oral Literatures  
*Njange Wan: Birth Songs of Oku Women of Cameroun
*Riddle and Bash: The Creative Wit of Alaa's Children
*Igbo Oral Poetry
*
Theory in Praxis: Matrifocal Feminism and The Lianja Epic
*
Rhythms of Combat: Re-visioning Igbo-Biafran War Songs
*
Conflict Resolution in Oral Literature: A Review of Yorùbá Satirical Songs

 

Ossie Enekwe   

*Broken Humanity: The Poetry of Osmond Ossie Enekwe

*Feminine Archetypes in Ossie Enekwe's Poetry

*Eco-critical Spaces: The Natural landscape of New Nigerian Poetry

*Post-colonial Power Tensions in West African Poetry

 

Ousmane Sembene
*Portrait of a Contemporary Griot: Orality in the Films and Novels of Ousmane Sembène
*Entretien avec Sembene Ousmane [Discussions with Sembene Ousmane

 

Sefi Atta . Isabel Allende

*Colonial chattel, Postcolonial whores: The African daughters of Sefi Atta and Isabel Allende

 

Sindiwe Magona

*Sindiwe Magona: Interrogating Black Township Life in Apartheid South Africa

 

Stella Osammor . Aminata Sow Fall
*The Gender Conflict in African Literature: A Reading of The Beggars' Strike and The Triumph of the Water Lily

 

Tanure Ojaide 
*The Mythography of Tanure Ojaide's Poetry

 

Tess Onwueme 
*Cultural Translation in Osonye Tess Onwueme's The Missing Face

 

Toni Morrison

The Search for Female Subjectivity in Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye

 

Vassanji
*Creating Identity out of the Postcolonial Void
 

Yvonne Vera
*The Narratives of a Twice-Betrayed People: Double Traumatization and the Decline of Nationalism in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins

 

Wole Soyinka  
*Samuel Beckett, Wole Soyinka, and the Theatre of Desolate Reality

 

 

More:-  *The Conflict of  Ethnicity in Popular Zimbabwean Lyrics  *“Global flows”: Ethnographic Studies of the Hindi Movie in Africa .
           *The Trans-Cultural Affinities of African Art
    *Tradition and Creation: Oral Performance among the Graffi

The Construction of Heroism in Rwandese Insigamigani Texts

The District Commissioner in Colonial Africa: Hollywood, Empires and Reinvention of Patriarchy

 

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