Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Africa and Europe xiii PART I A SELECTED HISTORY OF WEST AFRICAN LITERATURE 1 1 Chinua Achebe: Things Pall Apart (1958), No Longer r at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1963), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) 19 2 Buchi Emecheta: The Bride Price (1976) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979) 3 Ayi Kwei Armah: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Tet Born (1968) 47 4 Miriama Ba: So Long a Letter (1981) 55 5 Sembene Ousmane: God's Bits of Wood (1962) 61 PART II A SELECTED HISTORY OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE 6 Ngugi wa Thiong'o: A Grain of Wheat (1967) Petals of Blood (1977), and Matagari (1989) 83 19 37 47 55 61 67
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