Tuzyline Jita Allan

Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi

The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature.

Critical Readings

The Twelve Best Books by African Women

"A sensible, humane, clear, direct voice revealing important strengths (Walker) and weaknesses (Drabble, Emecheta) in these novelists' aesthetics concerning femaleness". -- Choice

A Comparative Review

Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics

Helen Nabasuta Mugambi

An invaluable contribution to the emerging body of African masculinity studies, drawing on the epic, folk tales, proverbs and song genres. The book explores the pervasive influence of orality on patterns of thought, as well as underlying notions of masculinity in African societies through the work of writers such as Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ahmadou Kourouma, Nuruddin Farah and Nawal El Saadawi.

Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts

Thomas Fink

Literature Around the Globe

Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.

Tuzyline Jita Allan

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