Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Contributors ix
4. Editorial Article The African Novel in the 21st Century: Sustaining the Gains of the 20th Century x
5. Resurgent Spirits, Catholic Echoes of Igbo & Petals of Purple: The Syncretised World of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus 1
6. Ambivalent Inscriptions: Women, Youth & Diasporic Identity in Buchi Emecheta’s Later Fiction 13
7. The Interrupted Dance: Racial Memory in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me By My Rightful Name 28
8. The Ivorian Crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma’s Posthumous Political Novel, Quand on refuse on dit non 42
9. Nguùgì’s Wizard of the Crow: Women as the “Voice of the People” & the Western Audience 55
10. The Ankh & Maat: Symbols of Successful Revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Osiris Rising 65
11. A New African Youth Novel in the Era of HIV/AIDS: An Analysis of Unity Dow’s Far & Beyon’ 75
12. The Prison of Nigerian Woman: Female Complicity in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come 85
13. Manufacturing Skin for Somalia’s History: Nuruddin Farah’s Deep Hurt in Links 103
14. A Zimbabwean Ethic of Humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not & the Unhu Philosophy of Personhood 117
15. ‘Coming to America’: Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale & the Nigerian/African Immigrant’s Narrative 130
16. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun 145
17. Reviews
18. Helon Habila, Measuring Time 152
19. Ama Ata Aidoo (ed.): African Love Stories: an Anthology 154
20. Tsitsi Dangaremgba: The Book of Not 155
21. Marilyn Heward Mills: Cloth Girl 157
22. Ngûgì wa Thiong’o: Wizard of the Crow 159
23. Chris Abani: Becoming Abigail 161
24. Chris Dunton: Boxing and Other Stories Tunde Fatunde, Shattered Calabash 162
25. Flora Veit-Wild: Writing Madness: Borderlines of the Body in African Literature 165
26. Gerd Meuer: Journeys around & with Kongi – Half a Century on the Road with Wole Soyinka 167
27. Index 171