ALT 44: African Writing in the 21st Century

Medium and Message
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-84701-480-1
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: African Literature Today

What is the state of African creative fiction, African publishing, and African literary criticism in the first decades of the twenty-first century?

This volume focusses on the nature and message of contemporary African imaginative creativity, examining literary works, narrative techniques, and innovations, as well as the nature and state of the criticism applied in analysis and interpretation. Inspired by Chinua Achebe's view of contemporary African Literature as a balance of stories between Africa and the West, contributors reflect on how writers have responded to this vision and moved the narrative of the continent forward into the arena of world literature.

Articles on African Writing in the 21st Century: Medium as Message / New Landscapes of Otherness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late / Postcolonial Hospitality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus / Pollution Make the Air Turn Black: Eco-Consciousness in Burna Boy's 'Whisky' and The Black River: Whiskey Documentary / Masculinities, Complicity, and Balance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / The African Grieving Story vs the European Grieving Framework: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom Meets the Kubler-Ross Model / Quilting the Narrative of New Black Feminism: Reinventing Feminism with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Literary Supplement
Reviews

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N

Weitere Mitwirkende

Emenyonu, Ernest N

Sallah, Tijan M

Usoro, Ekikereobong Aniekan

Johnson, Esther Paul

Akinrinde, Tolulope

Okon, Friday A

Roy, Paramita Routh

Ezeigbo, Akachi

Ndigirigi, Gichingiri

Friesenhan, Kufre

Ahumibe, Nonye Chinyere

Sackeyfio, Rose A

Lindfors, Bernth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

EDITORIAL ARTICLE

African Writing in the 21st Century: Medium as Message
ERNEST N. EMENYONU

ARTICLES

New Landscapes of Otherness in Chika Unigwe's Better Never than Late

ROSE SACKEYFIO

Postcolonial Hospitality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
TOLULOPE AKINRINDE

Pollution Make the Air Turn Black: Eco-Consciousness in Burna Boy's 'Whisky' and The Black River: Whiskey Documentary
KUFRE FRIESENHAN

Masculinities, Complicity, and Balance in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
NONYE AHUMIBE

The African Grieving Story vs the European Grieving Framework: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom Meets the Kubler-Ross Model
EKIKEREOBONG USORO AND FRIDAY OKON

Quilting the Narrative of New Black Feminism: Reinventing Feminism with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
PARAMITA ROUTH ROY

TRIBUTES

Nnolim on Achebe
BERNTH LINDFORS

The astounding formalist has joined the ancestors: A tribute to Professor Charles Nnolim

AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO

Encounters with Ngugi the Wrestler
GICHINGIRI NDIGIRIGI

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

A Living Soul
ESTHER PAUL JOHNSON

Tanji
Carthage
TIJAN M. SALLAH

REVIEWS

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, We, the Kindling
ADEMOLA ADESOLA

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE

Lizi Ashimole, The Other Insider
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE

Maik Nwosu, The Book of Everything
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE

Linda Jummai Mustafa, What If.?
NONYE CHINYERE AHUMIBE

Dez Udezue, The Eden Ruse, Amadioha's Rebellion
INIOBONG UKO

Kofi Anyidoho, See What They've Done To Our SunRise: New Poems from an Old Loom

JEROME MASAMAKA

Über Autor(innen)

Emenyonu, Ernest N
ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Ahumibe, Nonye Chinyere
Nonye Chinyere Ahumibe is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. Her research interests are in Gender Studies, Post-colonial and Diasporic Literatures.

Sallah, Tijan M
Tijan M. Sallah is the Gambia's foremost poet and short story writer and one of Africa's most significant writers. A former professor of economics and retired World Bank executive, his most recent books are Saani Baat (a work of literary and cultural criticism) and I Come From A Country (poems).

Emenyonu, Ernest N
ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Roy, Paramita Routh
Paramita Routh Roy has an MA in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India. Her research interests include African Literature with special emphasis on Women's Writings, Black Feminism, Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonialism.

Emenyonu, Ernest N
ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).