Table of Contents

Preface by Pushpa Naidu Parekh; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne; Section 01 Chinua Achebe, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Section 02 Ama Ata Aidoo, Hildegard Hoeller; Section 03 Zaynab Alkali, Christine Loflin; Section 04 Ayi Kwei Armah, Samuel A. Dseagu; Section 05 Kofi Awoonor, Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown; Section 06 Mariama Bâ, Siga Fatima Jagne; Section 07 Calixthe Beyala, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi; Section 08 Dennis Vincent Frederick Brutus (John Bruin), Craig W. McLuckie; Section 09 Driss Chraïbi, Lynne Dumont Rogers; Section 10 J. P. Clark-Bekederemo, Emevwo Biakolo; Section 11 Mia Couto, Jared Banks; Section 12 Tsitsi Dangarembga, Eleni Coundouriotis; Section 13 Nafissatou Diallo, Lisa McNee; Section 14 David Mandessi Diop, Ode S. Ogede; Section 15 Assia Djebar, Mary B. Vogl; Section 16 Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala, Anne E. Lessick-Xiao; Section 17 Buchi Emecheta, Marie Umeh; Section 18 Femi Euba, Iyunolu Folayan Osagie; Section 19 Aminata Sow Fall, Dominic Thomas; Section 20 Nuruddin Farah, Hema Chari; Section 21 Athol Fugard, Jo E. Nel; Section 22 Nadine Gordimer, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett; Section 23 Mafika Gwala, Jogamaya Bayer; Section 24 Bessie Head, Elaine Savory; Section 25 Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, Chinyere Grace Okafor; Section 26 Francis Imbuga, J. Roger Kurtz; Section 27 Festus Ikhuoria Ojeaga Iyayi, Chinyere Grace Okafor; Section 28 Tahar Ben Jelloun, Soraya Mékerta; Section 29 Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, Lynne Dumont Rogers; Section 30 Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, Jared Banks; Section 31 Ellen Kuzwayo, Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter; Section 32 Alex La Guma, Harold Barratt; Section 33 Camara Laye, Brian Evenson and David Beus; Section 34 Doris Lessing, Christine W. Sizemore; Section 35 Muthoni Likimani, Maxine Beahan; Section 36 Dambudzo Marechera, Brian Evenson; Section 37 Micere M. Githae Mugo, Judith Imali Abala; Section 38 Peter Nazareth, J. Roger Kurtz; Section 39 Ng?g? wa Thiong’o, John C. Hawley; Section 40 Lewis Nkosi, Brinda Bose; Section 41 Flora Nwapa, Christine Loflin; Section 42 Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Ode S. Ogede; Section 43 Gabriel Okara, Pushpa Naidu Parekh; Section 44 Christopher Ifeanyichukwu Okigbo, Nalini Iyer; Section 45 Ben Okri, Robert Bennett; Section 46 Femi Osofisan, Elaine Savory; Section 47 Ferdinand Oyono, Vanessa Everson; Section 48 Essop Patel, Jogamaya Bayer; Section 49 Alan Paton, Jo E. Nel; Section 50 Okot p’Bitek, Awuor Ayodo; Section 51 Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Moradewun A. Adejunmobi; Section 52 Tijan Sallah, Siga Fatima Jagne; Section 53 Olive Schreiner, Nicholas Birns; Section 54 Leïla Sebbar, S. D. Ménager; Section 55 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Samba Diop; Section 56 Wole Soyinka, Femi Euba; Section 57 Efua Theodora Sutherland, Adaku T. Ankumah; Section 58 Sony Labou Tansi, Dominic Thomas; Section 59 Mositi Torontle, Musa W. Dube; Section 60 Amos Tutuola, Norman Weinstein; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors;