Pen/Faulkner Award-winning novelist John Edgar Wideman presents the best of early African-American writing in My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature, featuring such ...

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 ...

In 1952 The Palm-wine Drinkard became the first West African novel written in English to be published internationally. That it was written by Amos Tutuola, an unknown Nigerian clerk who took to ...

Which Nigerian book is destined to become the next Things Fall Apart? We have had great, award-winning contemporary Nigerian books published recently and we can’t help but wonder which of the books ...

Africa has no shortage of world-class literature. What it has had is a distribution problem.ContentsA New Era for African ...