For many American children of Wendy Laura Belcher’s generation, Africa was the land of Babar and of Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan, yodeling “Ungawa!” and swinging through the jungle in small-screen ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Research in African Literatures, founded in 1970, is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum ...

Representatives of 32 national writers associations from African countries recently converged on Ibadan, Oyo State capital, to reflect on how literature has contributed to African agenda for peace, ...

In 1962, a conference of African Literature in English language, the first African Writers Conference, was held at Makerere University and attended by prominent African writers, including Chinua ...

I have previously received funding from the Mellon and Rhodes Foundations for my academic research. But Aidoo believes that Afropolitanism is “evidence of self-hatred”. Its proponents, she charges, ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston. His first novel, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and is still the most widely-read piece of African literature. Nigerian writer Chinua ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily ...

The arrival of Allison Curseen and Jonathan Howard to the Boston College faculty this academic year reflects the University’s commitment to strengthening its African American literature teaching and ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...