The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. In this
10th anniversary volume, first published in 1979, Eldred Jones
outlines the trend over the years since independence of "a greater
degree of alienation or dissidence of the principal writers from
established regimes and a movement towards a closer identification
with what they see as the needs of the ordinary people. Writers
increasingly found themselves in difficulties with their respective
governments, with ensuing consequences of loss of favour,of exile -
enforced or voluntary - or worse still of detention or imprisonment
in their own countries." This issue makes a reassessment of African
writing with special articles on novels, drama and poetry and
particular studies ofthe work of Kofi Awoonor, Ngugi, Ezekiel
Mphalele, Richard Rive, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ayi Kwei Armah, Yambo
Ouologuem and Arthur Nortje.
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