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African literature

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Postcolonial African writers

Pushpa Naidu Parekh, Siga Fatima Jagne

1998

Retrospect & Prospect (African Literature Today, Vol 10)

Eldred Durosimi Jones

1979

African language literatures

Albert S. Gérard

1981

Mother is gold

Adrian A. Roscoe

1981

Myth in Africa

Isidore Okpewho

1983

The Lion and the Jewel

Wole Soyinka

1990 ★ 4.2

Film In African Literature Today A Review

Ernest Emenyo̲nu

2010

Tell Me Africa

James Olney

1973

A History of twentieth-century African literatures

Oyekan Owomoyela

1993

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2017 ★ 4.7

Clear word and third sight

Catherine A. John

2003

The devil's own mirror

Catherine Lynette Innes

1990

Song of a prisoner

Okot pʼ Bitek

1971

Historicizing colonial nostalgia

Patricia M. E. Lorcin

2012

Literature of Africa

McGraw-Hill

1999

Voices from the continent

Sara Talis O'Brien, Renee Schatteman

2003

Decolonising the Mind

Blanca Busquets, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

1989

African Short Stories

David Owoyele, Jomo Kenyatta, Mafika Pascal Gwala et al.

1985 ★ 3.7

The language of African literature

Edmund L. Epstein

1996

A dance of masks

Jonathan Peters

1978

The African Trilogy (Things Fall Apart / No Longer at Ease / Arrow of God)

Chinua Achebe

2017

Venok Maǐklu Udomo

Abrahams, Peter, Petina Gappah, Stanlake J.T. Samkange

1956

Opening Spaces

Yvonne Vera

1999

African studies thesaurus

Freda E. Otchere

1992

Introduction to Nigerian literature

Bruce King

1972

Encyclopedia of African Literature

Simon Gikandi

2002

The African assertion

Austin J. Shelton, Chinua Achebe, Shelton, Austin J., Comp. et al.

1968

Student encyclopedia of African literature

G. D. Killam

2007

Pre-colonial Africa in colonial African narratives

Donald R. Wehrs

2008

African voices

Peggy Rutherfoord

1958

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