Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Contributors xi
4. Editorial Article: African Literature Comes of Age 1
5. Articles
6. Of Literature & Medicine 12
7. Post-humanism & Speciesism in African Literature 27
8. Manifestations of Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Novels 40
9. Transformative Female Narratives & New Visions in African Women’s Writing 50
10. Religion, Capitalism & Politics 64
11. Approaching Gang Violence on the Cape Flats in Rehana Rossouw’s What Will People Say? 79
12. The Denunciation of Religious Collusion with Colonization in Devil on the Cross & Matigari 91
13. The Weapons of Subjugation in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were 107
14. Abrogating Aesthetic Boundaries in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry 119
15. The End of Robert Mugabe 133
16. The Text & Textual Fields of African Popular Literature 145
17. Literary Supplement
18. Ezuga (Short Story) 158
19. Four Poems 168
20. Tributes
21. Remembering Professor Charles R. Larson (14 January 1938–22 May 2021) 172
22. The End of an Era 188
23. Reviews
24. Kasimma. All Shades of Iberibe 196
25. Ikechukwu Otuu Egbuta and Nnenna Vivien Chukwu (eds), World on the Brinks: An Anthology of Covid-19 Pandemic 198
26. Evelyn N. Urama (ed), The Writer in the Mirror: Conversations with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo 203
27. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘Zikora: A Short Story’ 207
28. Isidore Diala (ed), Obumselu on African Literature: The Intellectual Muse 210
29. Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers 216
30. Tijan M. Sallah, Saani Baat: Aspects of African Literature and Culture 219