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

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

 

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


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


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

 

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)

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
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The Rhetoric of Despair in Chin Ce’s Children...
*Beyond Subjectificatory Structures: Chin Ce 'In the season of another life' 
*'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
*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
*Post-Colonial Literatures and the Ongoing Process of 'Writing Back’

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

Femi Osofisan
*Antigone as Revolutionary Muse. Fémi Ňsófisan's Tčgňnni: an African Antigone

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

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

JM Coetzee  
*‘Moderated Bliss’: Coetzee's Disgrace as Existential Maturation
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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

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

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

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

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

 

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

*Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics

 

Niyi Osundare

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

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

Oral Literatures  
*Njange Wan: Birth Songs of Oku Women of Cameroun
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Riddle and Bash: The Creative Wit of Alaa's Children
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Igbo Oral Poetry
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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 Yorůbá Satirical Songs

Onuora 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

Tanure Ojaide 
*The Mythography of Tanure Ojaide's Poetry

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

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

Zimbabwe
*"I Too Sing Zimbabwe": The Conflict of  Ethnicity in Popular Zimbabwean Lyrics

 
   

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