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This issue discusses Chinua Achebe, African literature and the power of representation. The issue celebrates 60 years of Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart (published in 1958).
Elizabeth O. IBen-iheanachoJanuary 20, 2020
A feminist reading of Achebe’s texts is a restoration of the visions of women not only in Africa’s past but also in the continent’s present and the future.
Wale LawalNovember 16, 2017
Korede AkinseteDecember 3, 2019
Anifowoshe IbrahimJanuary 17, 2020
An ‘African writer’ can either be an African writer or a writer from Africa. One may conflate these terms but the two are distinct. While the former refers to a writer who affirms their African-ness as the source of their art, the latter refers to origin, a writer from Africa.
