ALT 10 Retrospect & Prospect: African Literature – Tenth anniversary issue: African Literature Today

Eldred Durosimi Jones

Editorial - Eldred Jones Issues in the reassessment of the African novel [Dan Izevbaye] Modern African poetry:The domestication of a tradition [D. I. Nwoga] Trends in African theatre [Michael Etherton] The missing link in African literature [Juliet I. Okonkwo] Influence & originality in African writing [Bu-Buakel Jabbi] A approach to Ouologuem's Le Devoir de Violence [A.E. Ohaegbu] Madness in the African novel: Awoonor's This Earth. My Brother [Femi Ojo-Ade] Ngugi's Petals of Blood [Eustace Palmer] Ngugi's Christian vision:Theme & pattern in A Grain of Wheat [Govind Narain Sharma] Popular literature in East Africa [Elizabeth Knight] South African hisotory, politics & literature: Mphalele's Down Second Avenue and Rive's Emergency [Okpure O. Obuke] The free spirit of Ekwensi's Jagua Nana [Lorett A. Hawkins] Dialectic as form:Pejorism in the novels of Armah [Charles E. Nnolim] Nortje:Poet at work [R.G. Leitch] Two poems by Nortje [with a note by Dennis Brutus] Poetry of the last five years [Clive Wake] Reviews include Sipho Sepamla's The Soweto I Love & Kenneth Ramchand's An Introduction to the Study of West Indian Literature